Round the Square

POETRY: We have another offering from Kane’s Frances Wolf Haight, who is kind enough to share her poems with RTS readers. This one is called Bless Thi...

SPOTLIGHT : Former Bradford resident Dr. Michael P. Gabriel was featured on C-SPAN 3’s “Lectures in History” series on Jan. 12. The network recorded a...

COLD : By this time of year, we’re accustomed to cold spells. Yet 51 years ago, it was colder than we’d like to think about. According to the Bradford...

DOORS OPEN: An array of cultural sites can be found just a little over an hour northwest of Bradford in Jamestown, N.Y. And on Saturday, Jan. 19, visi...

PLATES : Using our handy 2019 Bradford Landmark Society 50th anniversary calendar, we learned that in January 1908, Pennsylvania started issuing its f...

MAGAZINE : We always enjoy looking through our copy of the Pennsylvania Magazine. In the January/ February issue, we were pleased to see a picture tak...

WORDS : Words are our business, and we were delighted to receive a tip from an Era reader about the Lake Superior State University’s 44th annual List ...

JAKE: We brought you a story Saturday on Jake Meister’s wrestling dream coming true, courtesy of Dillon Keane. And thanks to a video of the wrestling ...

BUSY: With the advent of a new year, and plenty of cold weather for January and February in store, many from the community may be searching for indoor...

NEW : The Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau tells us changes are in store for the coming year in the region. Remember that groundhog who usu...

ROADS : We have some rough roads in the area today, but we can’t imagine what our ancestors dealt with in 1919 when they proclaimed the roads were in ...

RADON : The Department of Environmental Protection is encouraging Pennsylvanians to start off the new year by conducting a simple test of their homes ...

RESOLUTIONS: It’s Jan. 2. Are you still following your New Year’s resolutions? The practice of making resolutions is thousands of years old, though it...

NEW YEAR : It’s a new year, and the Bradford YMCA has a list of tips of New Year’s resolutions that are attainable. Move More: It’s important for chil...

TIPS: As we prepare for 2019, the Bradford YMCA has a few suggestions to help us stick to our New Year’s resolutions. Start small. Break those big res...

CONNECTION : Sally Costik, curator of the Bradford Landmark Society, sent us this story from WPSU. We love it and had to share. It involves an Ohio ma...

HISTORY : Today we want to share a little presidential trivia. On this day in 1856, Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va. Wilson was the 28th presi...

LANDMARK : We would be remiss if we didn’t take a moment to mention a dear friend to RTS — the Bradford Landmark Society. There’s a lot going on at He...

TREES: It’s the day after Christmas, time for many to take down the trees and holiday trimmings until next year. For those of you with real trees, the...

CHRISTMAS : It’s the day children wait for all year long — Christmas. We looked up a bit of the story of Christmas from the website history.com Dec. 2...