Michael Sauers December 30, 2025 Once again, we are going to spend New Year's Eve in Wellsboro, PA. Nestled just west of the Endless Mountains Region and adjacent to the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, Wellsboro serves as the county seat of Tioga County. Settled in...
Michael Sauers December 16, 2025 Last week a truly creative and organic event took place at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg. Seventy statewide environmental justice, community development, and economic development organizations plus over two thousand...
Michael Sauers Decamber 5, 2025 Fourth and Center Streets in Kelayres, PA is not where you would expect a drama like the Kelayres Massacre to occur but it did. On November 5, 1934, 5 people were gunned down and approximately 2 dozen others were wounded. It was...
Michael Sauers October 3, 2025 Bloomsburg already has some key assets that are helpful for developing a vibrant and successful downtown. To begin, the Town of Bloomsburg has three exits off a busy interstate highway. While none of these channel traffic directly into...
Phil Kaufman/Michael Sauers September 16, 2025 Where to begin? This is a reasonable question when you're talking about Phil Kaufman. He is a man of enormous courage, intellect and grit. For several decades he spoke truth to power and to the citizens of the Greater...
Michael Sauers August 4, 2025 I grew up in McAdoo, Pennsylvania. McAdoo is a small town that owes its existence to Anthracite coal mining. I have coal cracker in my blood. I'll give my time spent in the Greater McAdoo Area a mixed review with many great life...
Michael Sauers May 21, 2025 A few years ago, Congressman Dan Meuser met with "community leaders" at a gathering hosted by Bloomsburg University (Commonwealth University). The topic was the future of economic/community development, education/training and the federal...
Michael Sauers February 21, 2025 Modern life is very hectic and so very different from my beginnings. I'm 74 now. From 1950 until 1963 life mostly took place in McAdoo and the Southside. Just a small borough/area nestled in Pennsylvania's Anthracite coal country, it...
Written by Ginny Mazzei Posted June 15, 2024 Tuesday's (6-11-24) Press Enterprise carries a report about the proposal to invest in public education, HB 2370, that passed the Pennsylvania House on Monday. I say it is about time. I am over 65 and understand the...
Written by Robert Curry Posted by Michael Sauers June 3, 2024 Sometimes dreams are just too big for one person to carry. Those big dreams must be shared if they are to become a reality. The story of the Hazleton Integration Project (HIP) is one such dream. HIP became...
A Public Dialogue Is Necessary June 8, 2023 Michael Sauers Recently, I was invited to attend a public meeting regarding the proposed Encina Plastics Recycling proposal. Encina, a Texas based company, is proposing to build a chemical process (pyrolysis) plastic...
This letter appeared recently in the Hazleton Standard Speaker. Editor: Local conservationists have recently received some unaccustomed good news. On the global level the Inflation Reduction Act provides substantial funding to combat climate change. On the national...