RTS (Round the Square)

THE OLD COUNTRY: Pete Palumbo shared his experiences from a trip to his ancestral homeland in the Calabria region of Italy in Thursday’s RTS. He provi...

ITALIAN HISTORY: Pete Palumbo of Bradford is a former chemistry and physics teacher in the Otto-Eldred schools. In his retirement, he’s turned more to...

MORE NESS: We thought we had exhausted our discussion of Eliot Ness until a package from Clayton Vecellio of Lewis Run arrived on Monday. Clayton, an ...

AS SEEN ON TV: Viewers of HGTV’s House Hunters show will see a familiar face if they tune in at 10 p.m. Feb. 13, Fran Rovito tells us. His daughter Ke...

ELIOT NESS 2: With Eliot Ness in the news again after a proposal to name the headquarters of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Expl...

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GROUNDHOG DAY: We reported earlier this week that the Beagle Brothers band, which includes three brothers who grew up in Kane, would be playing for th...

VALENTINE’S DAY: It’s never too early to begin planning for Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. We know this to be an incontrovertible fact, learned from many y...

GRIT CLIP: After our mention of the old Grit weekly, a yellowed newspaper clipping arrived in our mail, accompanied by a hand-written note. “I was cle...

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: We’ve all heard it and recited it so many times, we hardly even have to think about it. From kindergarten on, we repeated it at ...

ESTONIAN CONNECTION: We weren’t sure we’d get any responses when we printed a request from Ursula Paes to put her in touch with anyone who was from Es...

LIMESTONE — The alleged shooter in Wednesday’s double-homicide in Limestone has died of self-inflicted wounds. Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whit...

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PUP UPDATE: We’ve had a number of inquiries about what happened to Star, the lab-Rottweiler-chow mix pooch who was central to the survival story of Ma...

HAPPY 80TH: Belated birthday wishes are in order for Marilyn Horne, the renowned Bradford-born opera star who turned 80 last Thursday. That milestone ...

SURVIVAL 2: It was chilly and snowing a little on New Year’s Day, but Martha Shick was feeling good and her dog Star, a big, happy mixed-breed, needed...

A TALE OF SURVIVAL: Bob Eliason thought it was peculiar when he saw a car parked near the Bradford City Water Authority’s treatment plant at the end o...

PLACE NAMES: Our column about little known and long-forgotten settlements in Lafayette Township elicited a lengthy letter from Scott Morgan of Kane. S...

COUNTING BIRDS: After our column last week on the Christmas Bird Counts in Emporium and Benezette, Madeline Miles sent us an email about another count...

ANOTHER CRASH: Retired Bradford firefighter John E. Rimer was one of the responders at both of the Allegheny Airlines crashes that happened on approac...