Ago the first pioneers crossed the oceans to a new world. A promise called the promise of a land where a man could build. His own raise his children in freedom. They call from the wilderness and empire of agriculture and industry. Themselves new and Higher Standards of living and yet in one of the great River Valleys of america something went wrong. Here in the Tennessee Valley three centuries later the descendants of the pioneers were a neglected people. Living in a ruined land for these children the hope and the thomas were dead for them. The only future was poverty ignorance drudgery. The struggle to scratch a bare living from the reluctant soil even the older man had forgotten that the valley had once been bright with promise and with hope Horace Higgins was one of the many who had given up the fight. Whats the use he said . Fill up those gullies in the first rain washes it away. Its the same with all the land around here. It may have been good land once. But its bad land now. Badl
LEWISBURG — Nancy Yost recently celebrated her 90th birthday. On June 27, she ll be retiring after more than 50 years of serving at the Lewisburg Senior Center.
Trainers at Tellico Village taught the athletes the rules and basic techniques of pickleball on Thursday, introducing them to the new Special Olympics sport.
Representatives from the Department of Revenue will visit senior and community centers across Pennsylvania to offer help filing Property Tax/Rent Rebate applications