Round the Square

DAYS: Did you know there’s a National Thrift Shop Day? It’s Aug. 17, by the way. The day is for supporting local thrift shops and the often charitable...

TIME TO PREPARE: According to the Farmers’ Almanac 2022-23 winter forecast the time to start preparing for a possibly very cold, very wet winter is up...

BIBLIOPHILES REJOICE. For those of us who can’t seem to take our noses out of a good book, today is our day! To all the book lovers out there — Happy ...

HAPPINESS HAPPENS: “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness,” Ralph Waldo Emerson. Did you know there is a, shh, Secret Soc...

SCARE: We were sitting at our computers, working on stories for today’s Era when that noise no one wants to hear started — the screech of the smoke al...

SMALL WORLD: We told readers a bit about former Bradfordian Marc Schuetrum, who lives in Germany now, in yesterday’s column. Today we’ll tell you a bi...

OH, BRADFORD: We’ve said it over and over again. It seems that all roads lead to Bradford. We heard a great story from Mike and Martha Madden that we ...

MISSED MEALS: Everyone is feeling the hit of inflation right now. And according to a survey by CouponBirds, nearly half of Pennsylvanians are skipping...

ELMER: A longtime friend of RTS is celebrating a special birthday this week. Elmer DeLucia will be turning 99 on Friday. His son, Nick, has passed alo...

ANIMAL LORE. Everyone, at least in Pennsylvania, has heard at least one lore or legend about animals predicting the weather — cough — Punxsutawney Phi...

DID YOU KNOW that in 1943, the Steelers and Eagles, the two professional football teams of Pennsylvania, formed a combined team because neither could ...

SPARKS OF MAGIC on summer nights, is how a child might explain the sight of the magical flashing lights of fireflies. It is quite mysterious to the la...

IT’S ONLY A NUMBER: Age, we can’t stop it. Everyday we grow older. Every year tacks on another chapter of life. Consider the ways in which life has be...

HONORING OUR VETERANS: Today, July 27, both America and South Korea celebrate National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day — to commemorate the peace tr...

ADA DAY, YAY! Today is the 32nd anniversary. Did you know that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990 by Presi...

THREADING THE NEEDLE: A term used by those who sew, right? Of course. Did you know it is also a way of expressing that life is getting a bit complicat...

HOT ENOUGH FOR YA? According to NationalToday.com , today is recognized as “Hot Enough For Ya Day,” a silly, fun holiday to celebrate all the pros of ...

NULL SUPERSTITIONS, you might still believe. According to the 2022 Farmers’ Almanac, a cat is just a cat and having a black cat cross your path is not...

9-8-8 — CALL BEFORE YOU QUIT: The Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services has recently made a change which provides Pennsylvanians with a...

MADE IN USA: Sometimes we’re moooved to share a bit of silliness, coupled with some tasty news from American companies. Pennsylvania’s own Sheetz has ...