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LOTTERY: If you’re ever trying to calculate how much money you’ve spent on lottery tickets over the years — versus how much you’ve won! — this might h...

IN THE NEWS: Bradford’s own Zippo Manufacturing Co. and W.R. Case and Sons Cutlery Co. were featured in a full-length article in the March/April 2017 ...

MILITARY HELP: The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs has announced a way for people to support military families this tax seaso...

WOMEN’S DAY: Happy International Women’s Day! This year’s theme is Be Bold for Change. The International Women’s Day campaign is calling everyone — no...

PLANET 9: NASA is inviting the public to “help scan the realm beyond Neptune for brown dwarfs and planet nine” in a new online project. According to N...

TOMATOES: We recently shared gardening tips from fellow master gardener Donald Comes of Smethport. He’s since passed along a couple of gardening-relat...

MAPLE MONTH: Maple producers along U.S. Route 6 in Pennsylvania are gearing up for the busy season this month. According to the PA Route 6 Alliance, t...

BEARS: The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently announced that the 2016 bear harvest in Pennsylvania was one of the most prolific seasons of all time...

CLEANUP: It’s official: the season of winter cleanup is upon us. Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful announced Wednesday the start of its 2017 Great American ...

SEVERANCE HALL: For the second time, a Smethport native was recently able to see the high school band she directs play at the prestigious Severance Ha...

PLANTING: After reading Friday’s column, Bob Rusiewski of St. Marys updated us on how some of his vegetables grew in 2016 and shared a little of his v...

FIRE ARTIST: There’s more than one way to create a work of art, as “fire artist” Steven Spazuk has shown. Zippo Manufacturing Co. tells us Steven uses...

A presentation called “Social Media — What Parents Need to Know” will take place at 7 p.m. March 1 in the large group instruction room at Floyd C. Fre...

RESIST: After the story of Sophie Scholl appeared in Wednesday’s column, we had three people contact us to let us know an area resident recently publi...

GARDENS: We reached out to Donald J. Comes, a horticultural botanist gardener from Smethport, to see what gardening he recommends people do — and not ...

UNBELIEVABLE: Clayton Vecellio of Lewis Run wrote to us about a recent trip he took — and roads he traveled along the way. Clayton writes, “Monday 2-2...

WHITE ROSE: Reader Tim Vecellio passed along this piece of history for us to share today. Tim writes, “February 22 marks the execution of Sophie Schol...

CLONES: Can you believe the world has known about “Dolly” the cloned sheep for 20 years? Wednesday will be the 20th anniversary of the controversial a...

PRESIDENTS: The U.S. Department of the Interior shared a photograph of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial on Thursday on its blog in anticipation of...

FLOWERS: You see those Valentine’s Day flowers turning brown on your desk? We’re not sure where our local flower merchants get their posies, but it ca...