RTS (Round the Square)

CHRISTMAS SONGS: Is it the ballad in which the singer longs for a Christmas where "the tree tops glisten"? Or the song about the reindeer who used his...

SMALL WORLD: Imagine a Bradford get-together halfway around the globe. Here's the story from the Rev. Richard Pytcher. It was on May 8, 1954, when he ...

HI AGAIN: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? If so, we hope you missed us yesterday. To give our entire staff a day off, we take holidays onl...

SPECIAL DAY: What do we really want for Christmas? We want all our Round the Square readers to be even more prolific, generous, vocal, varied, smart, ...

SANTA?: "What were the lights in the sky last night, Dec. 12, at about 5:45 p.m.? We were in the barn, looked out and saw what we first thought were l...

This is RTS for Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007 IT'S TODAY: Snow and cold weather are bad enough. The most annoying part of winter, however, is when it gets d...

SOME SIGHT: "Last Friday afternoon, I was at my camp on the St. Marys/Johnsonburg road. A flock of about 50 geese flew over, heading south. The sun wa...

GOOD THOUGHT: If it's really the "thought" that counts when giving a Christmas present, then why not try some of these ideas proposed by the Pennsylva...

IT'S TODAY: You know you're getting old when you can't remember your own birthday. Such is the case for Round the Square. We're almost positive the fi...

GIFT IDEA: If you have a railroad buff in the family, a great gift for Christmas would be the 2008 Salamanca Rail Museum calendar. In fact, the cover ...

TREE TIME: Dorothy D. Tracey of Claremont, Calif., born and raised in Kane and a resident of California for 50 years, writes: "Fortunately I get back ...

SPECIAL TRIP: Don't forget to turn on your outside Christmas lights tomorrow night. Bradford area senior citizens will be treated to a tour of the hol...

BLUE BIRDS: We have seen exactly one bluebird in our entire life and so could only express extreme envy when Susan Taylor of Port Allegany called us l...

MAIN STREET: One of the last shopping weekends before Christmas is about to begin. Before you head out of town, however, explore Main Street - you mig...

THAT PHOTO: "To tell all the people who wrote letters into the paper about the deer on the front page was very offensive to us hunters. I'm sure that ...

A SALUTE: Our recent thanks for our soldiers and sailors drew this comment from former Bradfordian Bill Weisenfluh of Ocala, Ala.: "Let us remember th...

A TREE: "Poems are made by fools like me but only God can make a tree." Joyce Kilmer, right? It's something to ponder when you're picking out your Chr...

DEER PHOTO: "I knew the day would come when, even in Bradford, someone would get upset with a picture of a hanging deer. This used to be a common site...

SPECIAL DATE: This is Pearl Harbor remembrance day. It was on Dec. 7, 1941 - the "date that will live in infamy" - that the Japanese attacked the Unit...

THAT DEER: "In my family, and my husband's family, we wait with barely contained anticipation to examine what our hunters bring home." Kristie Bentley...