RTS (Round the Square)

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SILVER LINING: It’s hard to be optimistic when the thermometer on your car registers minus 18 degrees, as ours did, but we felt compelled to search ou...

ERA CALENDARS: John Dougherty of Smethport dropped us an email to let us know the 2014 Bradford Era calendar that our subscribers received in the past...

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POETIC STUDENT: We found a pleasant surprise in our email on New Year’s Day. It is a poem written by McKenna Shipman, the daughter of Angela and Robb ...

NEW YEAR’S WISHES: Kane poet Frances Wolfe Haight has shared many of her poems with us this year, and she closed out 2013 by mailing us one more. She ...

A BIG YEAR: We thought 2013 was a pretty big year for Bigfoot, but the Huffington Post confirmed it for us last week with a big story on its Weird New...

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VERSE ON WHEELS: Frances Wolfe Haight of Kane has shared a number of her poems in this space over the years, and lately she’s been on a roll with poem...

WAR MEMORIES: Elmer Delucia can’t remember a time when he was ever colder than in the winter of 1944, even though he’s survived nearly 70 winters sinc...

HOLIDAY VISIT: Bob Troha of St. Marys dropped in last week bearing a gift of Christmas sausage for his local friends and business associates. It has b...

WHITE CHRISTMAS: With much of our snow accumulation of the past couple of weeks melting and going down the storm drain, you could be wondering whether...

CHRISTMAS SONG: If you hear country music star Gretchen Wilson belting out a new Christmas song this year, you should know the tune has a local connec...

ANIMAL TALES: Recent columns about hunting and hunting-camp stories must have jostled the memories of some readers who have passed along more stories ...

CHRISTMAS SONG: Frances Ohman of East Smethport is giving one last try at making a name for herself as a songwriter. She wrote and performed a song ca...

TOP 10: Even though winter doesn’t officially begin until Saturday, we think we’ve had enough chilly and snowy weather already to consider the season ...

TRUCKER’S POEM: Frances Wolfe Haight, the 80-year-old Kane poet who found a national audience for her poem, “My Prayer for Truck Drivers,” has sent us...

GREAT SHOT: Leading up to deer season, we asked readers to share some of their favorite stories of hunting seasons gone by. Ron Worden of Shinglehouse...

HOLIDAY WISH: Frances Ohman of East Smethport first sent us this poem about five years ago. She asked us to reprint it to express her sentiments aroun...