News, Round the Square
Mar 19, 2025
YELLOW: When you think about harbingers of spring, does the lovely yellow forsythia bush make your list? It does for the Farmers Almanac.”Forsythia ar...
News, Round the Square
Mar 18, 2025
ROBINS: Shirley Goodman called March 6 to tell us she’s been seeing robins on the grounds outside Chapel Ridge. As temperatures plummeted Monday, the ...
News, Round the Square
Mar 17, 2025
GLASS: Looking for a bit of color in your life? The Corning Museum of Glass, always a place of beauty, will open a new exhibition May 10 — Brilliant C...
News, Round the Square
Mar 15, 2025
ACRONYMS: We had a reader call us recently to ask what a common acronym meant. We were taken aback. In our business, everybody knows that UPMC is the ...
News, Round the Square
Mar 14, 2025
WOMEN: Recent research estimates that women are represented in only about half of a percent of recorded history. The Representation Project spotlights...
News, Round the Square
Mar 13, 2025
AWARE: What do peanuts, celery, umbrellas, noodles, breast implants and athletic training have in common? What a question! The answer is the month of ...
News, Round the Square
Mar 12, 2025
CAT & MOUSE: This year, the slapstick antics and never-ending chase of cartoons Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse turned 85. The duo was created by William Hann...
News, Round the Square
Mar 11, 2025
CLASS: The Antique Automobile Club of America is welcoming the Class of 2000 as antiques. Really. The club defines antique as a vehicle 25 years of ag...
News, Round the Square
Mar 10, 2025
STUDY: A study tracking four-year trends has found that McKean County has seen the biggest drop in single-parent households in Pennsylvania, while Cam...
News, Round the Square
Mar 08, 2025
MONDAY: This coming Monday is an important day in the U.S. It’s not one that closes the postal service or banks, but it’s one that we could argue is j...
News, Round the Square
Mar 07, 2025
SIZE: It’s pretty early in life when children learn the difference between things that are big and small. Yet there are some things in life that are j...
News, Round the Square
Mar 06, 2025
TIDBITS: A few readers have reached out recently to share some tidbits. We’ll relay the not-so-good item first. It just so happens that today, March 6...
News, Round the Square
Mar 05, 2025
MONTH: March is Women’s History Month. The first Presidential Proclamation declaring it so came from President Jimmy Carter in 1980. On social media, ...
News, Round the Square
Mar 04, 2025
LATIN: Did you learn Latin in school? So many of us didn’t, and we were surprised at the number of Latin terms co-opted into the English language. Som...
News, Round the Square
Mar 03, 2025
AUCTION: Is the discerning artist in you just itching for a unique painting by a capy-ble artist? Maybe a slowly created work of art by a sloth? How a...
News, Round the Square
Mar 01, 2025
WORDS: Well isn’t he a snollygoster! Words such as this might cause me to cachinnate. Befuddled? Don’t be. A snollygoster is a shrewd, unprincipled pe...
News, Round the Square
Feb 28, 2025
TRILLION: We recently heard from a reader who’s been enthused with our ’Round the Squares lately. Ken Gerg enjoyed the RTS where we gave some context ...
News, Round the Square
Feb 27, 2025
LURKING: Just what is lurking in the maze of sewer lines running underground? In Florida, a team of researchers from the University of Florida found “...
News, Round the Square
Feb 26, 2025
MUPPETS: In the continuing celebration of 70 years of The Muppets, a recent feature was Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Ph.D., Esq., Incomp., C.S.I.C.O.E. (Chief...
News, Round the Square
Feb 25, 2025
BIRDS: A Shinglehouse reader had a connection to a story in the Feb. 11 edition of The Era. The story, called “Mad at your ex?” was about the Love Hur...
Nation & World, PA State News
AmeriCorps must restore grant funding and members to states that sued over cuts, federal judge rules
June 5, 2025
The Trump administration must restore hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and thousands of service workers in about two dozen ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 5, 2025
President Donald Trump spoke to Russia’s Vladimir Putin for more than an hour on Wednesday about Ukraine. But results remain elusive. “It was a good c...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 5, 2025
Imagine turning on your TV or radio and finding silence where “Sesame Street,” local news, and emergency alerts used to be. No more “Our Town” stories...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 5, 2025
In a previous RealClearPA essay, I examined the first 200 years of voting in Pennsylvania and the alternating efforts to democratize the electorate an...
Outdoors, Sports
June 5, 2025
The camping trip doesn’t seem that long ago, but time passes so quickly, sliding smoothly by unnoticed until, unbelievably, you look back and wonder w...
Local News
June 5, 2025
ERIE — A blood drive has been set for 2 to 6 p.m. June 12 at Smethport Fire Department, 109 S. Nelson St., Smethport. Community Blood Bank encourages ...
