News, Round the Square
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 ...
News, Round the Square
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...
News, Round the Square
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...
News, Round the Square
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 ...
News, Round the Square
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...
News, Round the Square
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...
News, Round the Square
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...
News, Round the Square
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...
News, Round the Square
Apr 12, 2025
BEGINNING: At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Un...
News, Round the Square
Apr 11, 2025
LIBERATION: Eighty years ago, on April 11, 1945, U.S. forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. From the United States Holocaust Memo...
News, Round the Square
Apr 10, 2025
APRIL: April showers bring May flowers. What about meteor showers, because April is a great month for those, too! One is the Lyrids meteor shower, whi...
Articles, Travel
June 1, 2025
(BPT) - Daydreaming about your next family getaway? Look no further than Northwest Florida! The location and climate are ideal, and thanks to its rece...
Articles, Travel
June 1, 2025
(BPT) - Love traveling, but find your best adventures somewhere between big cities and crowded attractions? If your favorite travel memories involve e...
Articles, Tech talk and innovation
June 1, 2025
(BPT) - Lisa Roberts has raised a family, reached an impressively high level in her career, and been an anchor for her mother and other family members...
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June 1, 2025
(BPT) - Are you currently a freelancer or gig worker, or thinking about becoming self-employed? If so, you know that being self-employed means enjoyin...
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June 1, 2025
(BPT) - When veterans transition to civilian life, they often search for jobs in civilian fields where they can put their unique experiences and skill...
Articles, Travel
June 1, 2025
(BPT) - Summer is all about recreation, relaxation — and diving into stories that transport you into another world. To help you get into beach mode, D...
