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Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> After a two-year hiatus, Empty Bowls Greene will return to raise money and awareness for the many people in our communities who do not have enough to eat. The premise is simple: local artisans make bowls that are filled with soup for ...

Putin must be overthrown

Much important world, national, state and local news over the past month has been relegated to the background – some completely overshadowed – by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s horrific invasion of Ukraine.Unfortunately, there is no sign of that changing anytime soon.Putin’s threats ...

After confronting a five-alarm crisis in public health over the last two years – one that might not yet be over – it’s understandable that anyone would feel bone-weary at the thought of another public health crisis waiting just over the horizon.But a recently issued report by the ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Local entrepreneurs will be offered space in downtown Waynesburg to get budding business ventures off the ground. Using a nearly $1.4 million grant from the recent federal spending package, the board of commissioners is moving ahead with ...

We’d like Pennsylvania to be No. 1 in, say, state education funding (it’s not close). Or in national sports championships.But not in hate propaganda.This dubious distinction makes us ill.It does, however, make clear why the Lancaster County Local Journalism Fund, an initiative seeded and ...

Surviving family members and friends of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have a right to be livid over military prosecutors’ willingness to negotiate plea deals for five 9/11 defendants being detained at the Guantanamo Bay high-security prison in Cuba.In exchange for guilty ...