RTS (Round the Square)

RABIES PRIMER: Ever wonder which of the wild critters that occasionally scurry across your backyard or are spotted in the surrounding forest might be ...

BIG CAT: It's been awhile since anyone has reported seeing a mountain lion but we have one today. Lori Charnisky of Bradford writes, "My husband Chuck...

ON THE MOVE: We've reported that our dry summer weather has brought rattlesnakes into downtown Emporium. Laurie Garrigan sends along a note: "Mrs. Str...

This is RTS for Friday, July 20, 2007 WHAT A GAS: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations names this group as one of the top two o...

42 DEGREES: Dan Whiteman of Mesa, Ariz., dropped us an e-line late last week: "Today at 4:30 a.m. while on the way to work, NPR radio reported Bradfor...

EIGHT IN ALL: Talk about having a front row seat to history. Martha Rhodes, a dental hygienist in the Bradford Area School District and a member of th...

RATTLERS!: You think you have complaints about our very hot and dry summer, consider this: Low water is resulting in rattlesnakes making their way dow...

COKE PLANT: Perhaps the definitive word about Bradford's Coca-Cola plant comes from Robert Graham of Bradford who remembers bottles being delivered to...

E-ERA: If you're an online reader of The Bradford Era you are undoubtedly aware that we've been making changes to our website. Please be patient as th...

FOREST START: "There has at the present time been no land purchased, and the forest exists on paper as far as the government is concerned." That's whe...

FOREST PLAN: With so much ongoing discussion on the future of the Allegheny National Forest, how interesting would it be to know what was envisioned w...

POPCORN WAGON: Tom Pessia, who's owned that old popcorn wagon for about 15 years now, sends along a few photographs. Tom writes us, "It has had some c...

POPCORN WAGON: Tom Pessia, who's owned that old popcorn wagon for about 15 years now, sends along a few photographs. Tom writes us, "It has had some c...

INDIAN SALVE: Some readers may remember lively discussions about so-called Indian salve a few years back in Round the Square. By all descriptions, it ...

KEYED UP: We found this bizarre. See if you do. Lee Morehouse of Bradford phoned the other day to tell us he was at Bradford Regional Medical Center, ...

ROWAN TREE: In our recent columns about determining which tree best suits your personality, we seemed to have "lost" one tree somehow - an interesting...

IT'S TODAY: We can't pass up Independence Day as an opportunity for a patriotic quiz! We'll make our Fourth of July test an easy one. Answers are at t...

BIG TAB: A reader had an acerbic observation about the current budget of the Bradford Area School District: "The current school budget matched against...

FINAL TREES: Just a couple more trees today as we finish up our columns about your "personali-tree." This interesting match-up of a tree to a time of ...

MORE TREES: More explanations today of your "hortoscope": Hazelnut (Extraordinary) - charming, sense of humor, very demanding but can also be very und...