News, Round the Square
May 10, 2025
NO MORE: Remember standing near the landline phone, twirling the code around your fingers as you chatted with a bestie or a sweetie? Or, in Bradford, ...
News, Round the Square
May 09, 2025
HISTORY: Next year will be the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The disaster at the Number 4 reactor forced eve...
News, Round the Square
May 08, 2025
TODAY: Today is the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, Victory in Europe Day from World War II. From the U.S. Department of Defense: “On May 8, 1945 — known ...
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May 07, 2025
WAR: Have you ever thought, “Boy, I would kill for a sandwich right now”? The website Ranker.com took that literally — no, they aren’t killing people ...
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May 06, 2025
POPE: By most accounts, Pope Francis was known as a good hearted man. As cardinal, when he was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he was issued an organ donor car...
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May 03, 2025
ODD: The last Civil War widow died in 2020. Yes, really. Helen Viola Jackson was just 17 when she married 93-year-old veteran James Bolin in 1936. The...
News, Round the Square
May 02, 2025
HERITAGE: A recent Lumber Heritage Region newsletter shared a pretty great story about lumber camp cooks, a job that women sometimes held. And what re...
News, Round the Square
May 01, 2025
MEMORY: “Caring for someone with memory loss takes strength — and sometimes, a pause for laughter is just what’s needed. That’s why the National Comed...
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Apr 30, 2025
ALDRIN: The name Buzz Aldrin is pretty well known — an astronaut and second person to walk on the moon. His father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr., was well ...
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Apr 29, 2025
DON’T: We’re always told that two topics to stay away from in polite company are politics and religion. In 2022, the Pew Research Center assembled som...
News, Round the Square
Apr 26, 2025
MORE: In Rumford, Maine, it’s illegal to bite your landlord. We enjoyed these weird laws so much in the first column that we had to write a second one...
News, Round the Square
Apr 25, 2025
WEIRD LAWS: Isn’t it entertaining to look at some of the laws still on the books? This one, if enforced, might put a stop to storefront psychics — in ...
News, Round the Square
Apr 24, 2025
DRINKING: Folks, our fellow Pennsylvania residents need better coping mechanisms. A study by mybiosource.com measured how many standard alcoholic drin...
News, Round the Square
Apr 23, 2025
SMILE: Early in the morning, before sunrise on April 25, the dark sky will hold a rare sight — a smiley face. Really. The planets Venus and Saturn wil...
News, Round the Square
Apr 22, 2025
GAMES: Now that better weather is supposed to be upon us, we’ll want to be spending more time outside. We found a neat way to keep children and adults...
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Apr 19, 2025
ODD FACTS: The Today Show has a website with 125 interesting facts to entertain adults and kids — or those of us who write RTS. We think this sort of ...
News, Round the Square
Apr 18, 2025
WORDS: Mea culpa. We had set Ann Weiner’s letter aside to add it to RTS and it got misplaced. She had written to us back in September (we need to clea...
News, Round the Square
Apr 17, 2025
PEEPS: At Easter time, the sugary marshmallow candy shaped like bunnies and chicks known as Peeps are seemingly everywhere. Based in Bethlehem, Pa., f...
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Apr 16, 2025
MAYFLOWERS: Joe Cucuzza called us from Lewis Run to tell us the mayflowers are blooming behind the old Valley Hunt Club. His family has an annual trad...
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Apr 15, 2025
TAX DAY: It’s tax day, the day by which your taxes are due to the federal government. We’re sure that’s a date adults can remember. Yet April 15 has m...
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May 12, 2025
Though significantly less nightmarish than the giant aerial chainsaw suspended from a helicopter that crews used to trim forest power lines last year,...
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May 12, 2025
Gas prices in Brookville, DuBois and Erie dropped an average of a dime apiece, while the average in Bradford and Warren — as usual — went essentially ...
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May 12, 2025
Rick Lutz cuts the ribbon on Tuna Valley Trail Association's new Marilla Landing Trailhead pavilion Saturday. TVTA has been working since 2017 to cons...
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May 12, 2025
An osprey got in on the action at the kids’ fishing derby held Saturday in conjunction with Tuna Valley Trail Association’s ribbon cutting and celebra...
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May 12, 2025
Lily Raevy as Winnie and Owen Troisi as Jesse burst into the song "Top of the World" upon climbing a tree in Bradford Little Theatre’s presentation of...
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May 12, 2025
HARRISBURG – Sen. Frank Farry, R-Langhorne, chair of the Senate Institutional Sustainability and Innovation Committee, led a public hearing May 7 focu...
