Round the Square

MOONWALK: Today is the 45th anniversary of the last day man has walked on the moon. But it may not be long until we return. According to the Associate...

BIRD COUNT: Audubon’s 118th Christmas Bird Count begins Thursday. Starting on Christmas Day 1900, ornithologist Frank M. Chapman, worried about declin...

GOOD READ: We’ve been talking about the Great Smog of London that descended on the city on Dec. 5, 1952. Just two or three weeks prior to our column w...

VETERANS SQUARE: Sally Costik, curator of the Bradford Landmark Society, shared these words that appeared in The Bradford Era on May 9, 1879. It seems...

LONDON FOG: After reading Thursday’s column on the London Smog, Ray Saunders of Bradford called with his own story about the fog in London. “After the...

MOON: Everyone’s eyes were on the moon Sunday night, when the only visible supermoon of 2017 loomed above us. We had a great view of the heavenly body...

LONDON SMOG: Sixty-five years ago on Dec. 5, 1952, the Great Smog of London descended on the city. Thousands died over the course of the five days the...

SPECIAL GIFT: With everyone seeking to find a cute gift for their children this Christmas, a volunteer of the McKean County SPCA asked if we would run...

WINTER ROADS: Winter driving is pretty much the worst. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the agency has gotten its own ducks...

INSECTS: Ever found a creepy-crawly in your yard and wondered what it was? For many readers, you’ve lived in the area most of your life and spent a ma...

METEOR: This unlikely occurrence happened on this day 63 years ago: “In 1954, Ann Elizabeth Hodges of Oak Grove, Alabama, was slightly injured when an...

BEES: A Limestone, N.Y., reader has noticed different behavior for one local critter recently. He called to tell us that on Tuesday he saw bees out an...

HOLIDAY RECIPES: Our recent column where we suggested putting together family recipe books as Christmas gifts struck a chord with at least one person....

GIFTS: There’s something about a handknit scarf or a still-oven-warm loaf of homemade bread that feels more sincere than a shiny bauble from the mall....

PARADES: Each year on the day after Thanksgiving, Olean, N.Y., welcomes the Christmas season with its Santa Claus Lane Parade. Starting at 7 p.m., par...

PLANES: Doris Galentine of Port Allegany may have an interesting connection to a veteran we featured in our column the Monday after Veterans Day. She ...

RECIPES: St. Marys’ own Straub Brewery passed along a couple of unique vegetable recipes that use their homebrewed beverages. They’d make great side d...

PLOWS: We thought this contest in nearby Forest and Warren counties was great. High school students in the counties were asked to paint illustrations ...

SENIOR DAY: In spring 2005, Sports Illustrated ran a story titled “When Tall Men Cry.” The lede for that story – written during the end of college bas...

EAGLE: A woman contacted us with a fun surprise she found Wednesday morning. She called to say, “I’m down near Mill Street on the dirt road here by th...