05/07/2008 - Man, what a ride  By Rodney L. Sherman, Clarion News Editor “Have you heard the story of the hot rod race where the Fords and the Lincolns were setting the pace, that story’s true I’m here to say, I was driving that Model A...”

05/07/2008 - Fresh fish  By Ralph Bowersox, Clarion The summer of 1976, my wife, Norma and I went to Boulder , Colorado , to visit our son, Jack who was living there at that time.  We went to a place for dinner that had a sign out front that said, “Fresh fish.” I thought that sounded pretty good!

05/07/2008 - Your choice makes a difference  By Karen Baran,Shippenville I can’t believe it’s Mother’s Day already. Moms, we need to check off some inventory.

05/07/2008 - Bush actions must be reversed  By Kenneth F. Emerick, Shippenville Nearly eight years ago the nation quietly accepted a sad reality. We allowed ourselves to be beaten down by shouts of “Forget it, move on” after the United States Supreme Court by a 5 to 4 vote violated the Constitution and installed the Shrub as president. Under Article II, federal courts lacked jurisdiction in the Bush vs. Gore case they illegally created.

05/07/2008 - Local men are heroes  By Rev. Roger A. Smith, New Bethlehem I am writing to commend and congratulate the five young men who saved a 23-year-old man from drowning on April 16. Two of the young men are my neighbors, Justin McGinnis, 21, and Tyler Skinner, 17. I have watched them grow up.

05/07/2008 - Clinging to my guns and religion  By William R. Strong, New Bethlehem I have just retired from the practice of law after 34 years. For the past several months, I have been continually asked, “What are you going to do?” and “Won’t you get bored?”

05/07/2008 - Trojan horse  By John C. Street As the comptrollers of a $3.5 billion a year industry that pumps an additional $214 million into local and state tax coffers, the Pennsylvania Game Commission shouldn’t be in this predicament. But license sales, the commission’s primary source of revenue, have declined over 25 percent in the last twenty years - and are on track to fall even faster in the next 20 – and cash flow is waning.

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