Opinion

It’s salad season!

3 years ago By Kara Gerbert

Body Springtime means warmer weather, and with warmer weather comes a change in food cravings for many people. Gone are the cravings for rich, heavy foods, and in its place is the desire for lighter fare. The one option that comes to mind when we talk about lighter food is salads.

Caprese salad with heirloom and Roma tomatoes. Photo by Kara Gerbert

One pot andouille pasta skillet

3 years ago By Kara Gerbert

Body If you are looking for a one and done meal, that is full of flavor, easy to make, and dissimilar from your usual fare, this one pot meal is what you’re looking for.

From coal mines to Cooperstown

3 years ago By News Staff

Body GUEST COLUMNIST In 1869, Hughie Jennings became the ninth of 12 children born into a Pittston, Pa., coal mining family. At age 12, Jennings dropped out of school to work as a breaker boy in the mines near Scranton, Pa., where he picked slate from coal for 90 cents a day.

Fewer teens are getting their driver’s licenses

3 years ago By News Staff

Body GUEST COLUMNIST Along with identifying as “Swifties,” ignoring the reported Chinese threat of bad dancing posed by TikTok, and pretending that plant-based meat is actually edible, many young people in America are engaging in another fascinating trend – not driving.

Fewer teens are getting their driver’s licenses

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

3 years ago By News Staff

Body If you don’t like it, leave it Dear Editor, I’m sorry to hear about the death of Elena Pena Gallego of Alpine. I see the writer of the obituary that appeared in the Pioneer had to bring up politics, i.e., racism in our past.

Kindness is not weakness

3 years ago By Rev. Katie Hudak

Body For the past several weeks we have been talking about this season of Lent as a “quite not yet” time when we see hints of new life but not full completion, as we prepare for Easter.

Seepage on trees indicate decay within cracked area

3 years ago By News Staff

Body GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil: My eastern redbud, albeit, leaning, seems to be healthy and has bloomed for several years. I noticed this spring that it has an area that is moist and weeping on its trunk.

Seepage on trees indicate decay within cracked area

Open U.S. borders foster identity theft

3 years ago By News Staff

Body GUEST COLUMNIST Nefarious activities of a criminal organization that targeted Texans of Asian descent were exposed last month by The Dallas Morning News.

Does Saint Patrick’s Day have a future?

3 years ago By News Staff

Body GUEST COLUMNIST I am definitely a product of the great American melting pot, but on both sides of the family, a Scots-Irish ancestry is prominent. (Some distant cousin with too much time on his hands traced my mother’s maternal grandmother’s line back to 1557 in Ireland.

God is listening

3 years ago By Rev. Katie Hudak

Body An interesting question came to me the other day about this “not quite yet” time of Lent that we have been talking about for the past couple of weeks as we prepare ourselves for Easter. The question is what is the best way to pray?