RTS (Round the Square)

ON WING: That tundra swan injured in a traffic accident in mid-March has been released back into the wild. Carol Holmgren, assistant wildlife rehabili...

PARKWAY FIELD: Readers of RTS are pretty familiar with the names Bob Pflug and Rock Denning, legendary football coaches at Bradford High. Think how pr...

SNIPPETS: Fred Mackendrick of Petersburg, Ill., writes, "You mention band members in the '40s. We would listen for hours, Louie Tentillo playing his a...

ONE HOUR: If every American household turns off the lights during Earth Hour - which is today - it will prevent more than 16,500 tons of CO2 from ente...

SPRING THING: Janette Woodruff of Smethport phoned Monday night to report an adult black bear in her backyard on East Willow Street. Now that hibernat...

LT. ENRIGHT: Information has been pouring in on Lt. Robert Enright who we mentioned in a previous column and, by all accounts, was a true American her...

15 CENT'ERS: Right before Easter, Betty Fink of Lafayette gave us a flashback to one of those old stores we've been writing about, McCrory's. Betty sh...

ZIPPO DEAL: One of our readers spotted a Zippo lighter on TV recently as part of the wheeling and dealing on an old game show from the 1960s and 70s. ...

JOE PETTILO: An addition to our list of Bradford musicians today: Gus Gocella of Crossville, Tenn., writes, "My uncle Joe Pettilo played numerous inst...

ERNIE PYLE: Eugene R. Brechtel of Johnsonburg sends along another photo related to the great war correspondent Ernie Pyle. He writes, "I have been rea...

LT. ENRIGHT: Another veteran's story today from Michael McCoy of Mayville, N.Y.: "Reading the article about Aviation Cadet Bennett Penn brought to min...

SPRING THINGS: Some say it's the robin. Others, geese or red-winged blackbirds. But it's really all about the buzzards, isn't it? Charles Frederick on...

WAR STORIES: Joel Gilfert of Eldred tells us the first three casualties from McKean County during WWII took place in January 1942. In fact, a total of...

LOOK UP: More than any year we can remember, tundra swans have been passing over this area in their springtime migration. Last Thursday, we got this n...

MARCH SNOW: We remember a hellacious snow storm not too many years ago on St. Patrick's Day. And a reader dropped off a clipping from 1993 with the he...

BEE-WARE: "I don't know if it's good news or bad news, but the bees are out already. My dog got stung trying to eat one," our caller said Tuesday. Not...

SIGN OF TIMES: Not a moment too soon, we get a plethora of spring-time sightings. The snow drops and crocuses in Mrs. Weis' yard in Emporium are out a...

WINTER WAIT: Before spring arrives, we had to print this poem sent to us by author W. Lee Peterson of Port Allegany titled, "It's Winter" and written ...

ROBIN REPORT: Maryanne Peterson writes Sunday: "Today as I visited my brother LeRoy Neubert on Worrell Street in Wilcox he pointed out two robins in t...

LOOK UP: We continue to get bombarded with reports of spring arrivals. Gracie Kemick phoned Monday to tell us about a flock of northbound geese she he...