Through An 'Old Timer's' Eyes
By Howard 'Mac' McDonald
      My image as a patriot took a hit last Saturday. On our traditional trip to downtown Emporium that morning, my wife Shirley and I were puzzled to see the flags flying. Then we were reminded that it was Armed Forces Day. I apologize to my comrades for this lapse of memory. Perhaps it's a sign of wh...
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Graduation parties and alcohol
      (Elizabeth Wood is a family counselor in Allegheny County and a mother of five.) It's Graduation Season and, in all too many cases, Parental Irresponsibility Season. Thousands of parents across Pennsylvania are confronted with a difficult choice - whether to tolerate, or even facilitate,...
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Judge appears unsympathetic to Rigases
      Followers of the criminal case against former Adelphia Cable executives John Rigas and Tim Rigas see little chance that the judge who presided over their fraud trial four years ago is going to significantly reduce their prison sentences.
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We've got mail!
      Matter of Survival To the editor: Today we added 265,000 babies, we lost 75,000 acres of rainforest, added 46,000 acres of desert, lost 71 million tons of topsoil, added 15 million tons of carbon and lost about 70 species to extinction.
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