John Hook

You CAN teach an old dog new tricks. I recently had to buy a vacuum cleaner for our house. For many people this is likely not a major consumer decision, but for me, buying a vacuum cleaner is a big purchase.

As Penn State fans we were certainly pleased with the outcome of the game. Except, the manner in which those bragging rights were obtained was just a little disappointing for some members of our family. Not from anything Penn State did though. But that bone-chilling wet may have played a part in the

Here we are on Aug. 28,  another beautiful day in Happy Valley. Anyone else notice anything different around town yesterday morning? Lots of yellow school busses driving here and there. Kids with backpacks walking intently on sidewalks. A traffic jam on Westerly Parkway. That’s right — yesterday was the first day of public school…

Imagine that. We’ve reached a time in history where you can get almost anything you want delivered to your home by one company. How convenient.

Proving that I am who I say I am turned out to be not quite as easy as I thought. In completing the necessary documentation to apply for a passport, the birth certificate I have was deemed unacceptable.

I’m here today to talk to you about another major component of driving in the hopes of spawning some concern. That would be turning right or left and entering a roadway from a stop sign, driveway, parking lot, or a non-highway yield sign. The short and sweet of it is this: if you turn onto…

Matchbox cars and Hot Wheels cars. As a kid these two items took up many happy minutes of my youthful life as well as a few dollars of my allowance and paper-route money. In the decades since I’ve had the opportunity to, by myself and with my wife, buy a number of real full-size cars.…

Prom. A simple word that conjures up mixed feelings from a good chunk of the adult population in this country. Some happy, some not so happy, some ambivalent. There are such mixed feelings for such a simple word that I felt compelled to pull my 1979 edition of Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary from my…