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105 YEARS . On Tuesday, September 5, Paul Monjar, a long-time Bradford resident who currently resides at the Bradford Ecumenical Home, will celebrate ...

ELDRED: An Eldred reader phoned the newsroom on Wednesday afternoon to inform us that there had been an error in an article in Tuesday’s edition of Th...

HELP: We’ve heard some complaints about RTS lately, with folks saying it was meant to be a “front page column of local happenings, reported by local p...

STIGMA: Today just so happens to be International Overdose Awareness Day, serving as a stark reminder of the harm that drugs inflict on our society — ...

EVENTUALLY, EVERYONE DIES: The living, then, carry the burden of grief. Today is Grief Awareness Day across the U.S. But, what is grief and what is th...

CHECKING OUT? September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, timed perfectly with children returning back to school. Sign yourself up for a library...

MULTI-USE HERB: Did your mother or grandmother ever instruct you to go outside and pick some plantain to put on a bug bite or bee sting? Here in the A...

MO’ MUSIC. Smethport native, Pam Burlingame, wrote to encourage the region to take part in International Play Music on the Porch Day. According to Bur...

FALL HARVEST: Most summer produce in gardens is beginning to dwindle, leading farmers to plant their fall vegetables and start preparations, canning f...

PLUTO. If you have lived enough years you may remember being taught about the NINE planets in elementary school, including that small little sphere at...

NOW OR NEVER NERDS : Nerds today need no revenge. What began on this day in 2007 as a simple hashtag, #FindYourInnerNerd, has turned into this year’s ...

BROKEN BRAINS. School begins this week. Schedules are going to be flipped upside down and backward for everyone in the area. And don’t think it is jus...

UNEMPLOYMENT. Even though inflation across the U.S. seems to be increasing, job gains are on the rise — with the U.S. gaining 528,000 jobs in July, ac...

IT TAKES A VILLAGE: In 2003 the headquarters building of the United Nations in Iraq was bombed. As a result of the bombing, 22 humanitarian workers lo...

HONOR AND FREEDOM. Today is Long Tan Day, and no that is not a reference to soaking up the sun to bolster your color in a sundress or khaki shorts. Lo...

FLAVOR: Recently, the Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania and the Girl Scouts of the USA announced a brand new cookie flavor which will join the natio...

STRESS STOPPERS: You feel it creeping into life when there is no time for it — stress, anxiety, the blahs — whatever you call it, it is not a welcome ...

WHAT’S FOR DINNER? The busy life of back to school begins next week. And the age old question of children returning from the classroom to home each ni...

LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT? No, we are not avoiding a turn today. Rather, we are celebrating all the southpaws out there! Happy Lefthanders Day! Did you ...

KIDS SEE MAGIC BECAUSE THEY LOOK FOR IT: Today, Friday, Aug. 12 is recognized around the globe as International Youth Day and its purpose is to bring ...