Cheers: The 39th Give-A-Christmas campaign to support local branches of The Salvation Army is underway. Sponsored by the ÎÞëÊÓƵ-Standard, the annual fundraiser is particularly important this year. ÎÞëÊÓƵœIÎÞëÊÓƵ™d have to say a majority of the families we serve are working families that just canÎÞëÊÓƵ™t ...
Dissatisfaction with two major parties is an American tradition Since the demise of the Whigs and the rise of the Republican Party in the 1850s, American politics has largely been a slugfest between the GOP and the Democratic Party. And, for probably much of that 170-year span, Americans have ...
Jeers: The arrival of Thanksgiving on Thursday marked the start of the holiday season, and it also marked an all-too-likely surge in cases of COVID-19 and the flu across the country. While nowhere near as widespread or severe as it was in 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 can still take lives and send ...
As divided and as stressed as we are, we do have much to be thankful for ItÎÞëÊÓƵ™s one of historyÎÞëÊÓƵ™s greatest ironies that a holiday that weÎÞëÊÓƵ™ve come to associate with belt-loosening and piling the plate high with victuals was kicked into gear by grim ascetics who didnÎÞëÊÓƵ™t like Christmas. The ...
Cheers: A severe summertime drought is typically not good news, but it has had one unexpectedly good side effect in this region ÎÞëÊÓƵ“ it has lowered the water level in Yough Lake to such an extent that it has allowed a 206-year-old stone bridge to emerge from the depths. Thousands of visitors ...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has likely been around as long as men ÎÞëÊÓƵ“ and it has almost exclusively been men ÎÞëÊÓƵ“ have risked their lives in combat. It was not officially recognized as a mental health condition until 1980, but there are stories going back to the Civil War of ...
