What was the best advice anyone ever gave you? That question prompted a lively debate on our deck one evening this past summer with people of various ages sharing good…

Can you be funny? Like right now? Seriously. Be funny. This moment. Not easy, eh?

Driving under the influence is not worth the risk.

An old toilet is very draining on the soul as priorities duke it out.

A resident asks the commission to move forward with recreation improvements.

Mister Rogers like you’ve never seen him before.

As a municipal employee, I’ve had plenty of chances to see Mt. Lebanon’s police and fire departments in action, so my opinion may be suspect—some police officers and firefighters are my friends.

A child of the Depression, he had learned to value what was given to him.

A couple of years ago, my across-the-street neighbor knocked on my front door at 8 a.m. wearing a raincoat over her nightgown. “Look,” she said, pointing to my next-door neighbors’…

An immigrant’s tale.

Campus safety.

Ordering from the Kindle and reading E-books? Carole Takach mourns the loss of real books in a real bookstore.