editorials

Mother’s Day began...

A. In 1858, when Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker, organized “Mother’s Work Days” to improve the sanitation and avert deaths from disease-bearing insects and seepage …

Comfort Food

Weather is turning colder; It’s time for comfort food. Food for the budget-minded, But fit for a king! Grandma’s ham pot pie, Or her New England boiled dinner. …

Paula Kay announces candidacy for NYS Assembly 100th District

ROCK HILL, NY — Paula Kay (D, Rock Hill) kicked off her campaign recently at a standing-room-only fundraising event at the Brew in Rock Hill. “I am so grateful to have you all here, and …

Photo contributed by Empire State Local News Coalition.

Publishers from across the state, including River Reporter publisher Laurie Stuart, stand with NYS Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, center in suit, who sponsored the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, on March 20. The $30 million annual tax credit refund for the hiring of journalists is now part of the state's FY2025 budget.

Local news coalition efforts are successful

When the Local Journalism Sustainability Act was included in the One House Senate budget with an allocation of $20 million, publishers across the state were ecstatic. Understanding that it was a tax …

If Ever There Was a Time

If ever there was a time, for truth to vanquish lies, for honor to remember sacrifice, for hate to be soothed by forgiveness, It is - today, tomorrow, and forever. If ever there was a day, to …

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Letters to the editor

Does Johnson support the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act?

Why don’t we see Tusten Town Supervisor Ben Johnson’s signature on the supervisors’ letter opposing the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act? (See River Reporter, May 2, riv …

The Whole Home Repairs program is vital

NeighborWorks of Northeastern Pennsylvania (NWNEPA), a community development organization that provides aging-in-place and homeownership support to residents in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, …

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my view

Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

It’s long past time to raise PA’s minimum wage

I took my first regular paid job as a hotel bellhop in 1966 when I was 11. It was hard work—in many ways harder than anything I do today. People came to stay for a week or three and that meant …

Lies swamp the media

We are used to hearing very lofty, self-congratulatory rhetoric when describing the American tradition of a free press that supports a vibrant democracy, where the good of the people is ultimately …

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river talk

What does the fox say?

ramblings of a catskill fly fisher

Fishing spinner falls

in my humble opinion

Eyes on the skies!

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Heady thought

Rise up and disarm

Editor’s note: This Mother’s Day Proclamation, written by Julia Ward Howe in 1870, was an appeal for women to unite for peace in the world. It was her response to the carnage of the …

You say you want a revolution

Blogs

On emotional scars and deep loss in generational trauma

I am not a Holocaust survivor in the classic sense. Neither my body nor my person experienced the horrors of the Concentration camps and the systematic torture and wanton murders of the Nazi killing …

Finding allies

We all need to know about our community. It makes for better decisions. A common set of facts makes for better community cohesion. Local community newspapers, which are focused on the …

Bedridden Ruminations

I have had Crohn's disease for almost 50 years. This means I have had a ringside seat not only to what was once referred to as a 20th-century illness that was treated with 19th-century medicine for …

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