RTS (Round the Square)

TUNA CREEK: Some input today on a recent RTS subject, Bradford's flood control project. Terry writes: "The Tuna flood control project, though it works...

LOOK UP: If you haven't been looking skyward, you're probably missing a lot of new arrivals and fly-bys. Here's our bird report from this week: On Thu...

ERNIE PYLE: Scott G. Schiller of Emporium stopped by with a photo of a memorial to Ernie Pyle. Scott writes, "Some time between January and October 19...

WHOLE FLOCK: Ed Grimes writes Tuesday from Port Allegany: "Read with interest about the first red-winged blackbird in today's Round the Square. What a...

LOOK UP: We were excited beyond words when we received this e-mail Monday from Russ Swanson: "Can spring be far behind! At 10:20 this morning there wa...

NEW BIRDS: A red-winged blackbird was among the starlings on Monday in Kathy Gotshall's yard in Port Allegany. This is the news we've been waiting for...

STORE STORIES: Nope, we're not done with those Bradford stores yet! A few more today: Fran Rovito of Bradford writes, "Nobody has touched on the area ...

MORE STORES: We turn today's column over to Nancy Fire of Bradford for our installment on old stores downtown: "Shopping for shoes, as a child of the ...

SPECIAL THANKS: Robert J. DeSousa, LTC, Command Judge Advocate, 213th ASG, Balad, Iraq, writes us: "My unit, the 213th Area Support Group, Pennsylvani...

TWO GARAGES: "Why did Bradford have two very large multi-level downtown automobile garages, the Star Garage and the General Garage?" That's today's qu...

BIGGEST FAN?: The Voice of the Steelers - Pittsburgh's Bill Hillgrove - will be in the audience March 6 to watch The Four Freshmen, who are appearing ...

TOP DOGS: Our items on Bradford's rival for top beagle - a follow-up to the Westminster dog show in which a 15-inch beagle named Uno won "best of show...

CANDY MAKERS: One of the fascinating thing about our recent columns about old stores in Bradford is how many were candy shops. John DeWitt "Dick" Walt...

LOOK UP: If you're driving past the Kinzua Dam, you might want to scan the landscape for American bald eagles. A woman reader tells us she saw three t...

R.I.P.?: Mary Ann Hannon writes us from Grand Junction, Colo.: "Are you aware that Feb. 12's Round the Square is with the obituaries? With all the rem...

TOP DOG: Uno, step aside. A Bradford beagle may make you Dos. An excited Bob Slike of Bradford, publisher of Hounds and Hunting magazine, tells us tha...

LOOK UP: James Sherwood of Turtlepoint phoned Monday and reported seeing three Eastern bluebirds. And about a week ago now, Mike Cedar of Derrick City...

BIGFOOT: A story in the recent edition of Pennsylvania Game News apparently gives the final word on our supposed "Bigfoot." Yep, it was a bear with ma...

MORE STORES: We're determined to try to plow through our list of old Bradford stores. (Operative word here is "try.") John E. Rimer of Bradford writes...

POTATO MASHER: To grasp the concept of a German hand grenade as a "potato masher," you need to think back how potato mashers used to look - not the el...