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I’m no fan of the current war on “misinformation” — if anything, I’m a conscientious objector — and one of the reasons is the term’s pedigree. Although the Grammar Curmudgeon in me freely admits that the word is a perfectly fine one, the effort by public and private sector alike to hunt down misinformers to keep them from misinforming the public represents a return to the bad old days that once upon a time liberalism sensibly opposed.

Members of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Friendly Sons of St. Patrick are making arrangements for the 75th Annual Banquet to be held at the Best Western Genetti Hotel and Conference Center,Wilkes-Barre, PA on Thursday, Sept. 16. Cost will be $70 a person Tickets may be purchased by contacting ticket chair Charles Kearney at 570-831-9214. Shown from left are, seated: Patrick Peters, Joseph O’Hara, Tom Keeney, Michael Ward, Patrick Jurish, Jack Mulroy, Phil Boyle and John Corcoran. Standing, second row: Jerry O’Hara, Jim Kelly, Joe Lyons, Ned Whalen Jr., Stephen A. McGough, Del McDermott, Charles Kearney, Mike Bradshaw, and Brian Bradshaw. Standing, third row: Jim Conahan, Max Stephens, Ned Whalen III, Paul Richie, Dan Casey, James Casey, Brian Finnerty, Jay Crossin, and Thomas Hogan.

This is third recipe from what we might call my “Bastille period,” a dish discovered during my quest last month to prepare something worthy of the French holiday. First Salad Nicoise, then a potato cake actually baked in a cake pan, and now “salmon rillettes” (pronounced ree-yet).

Irene Miscavage Connor remembers being a majorette, “always marching and twirling.”

Spurred by skyrocketing consumer demand during the pandemic, restaurant delivery companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats are rapidly expanding their services to grocers, convenience stores, pharmacies, pet stores and even department stores.

Most advice about retirement planning focuses on how to save enough money to replace your paycheck.

KINGSTON — Everyone deserves to be pampered, right?