RTS (Round the Square)

HOT OFF THE PRESS: A new book by the Bradford Landmark Society is out just in time for holiday gift-giving. It’s called “Death by Train” and is a comp...

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SHOPPED OUT? After early-bird Christmas shopping on Thanksgiving Day, door-busters just after midnight on Black Friday, Shop Local Saturday and Cyber ...

MAGAZINE MENTION: We keep a pretty close eye out for mentions of Bradford in national media, but we have to admit this one got past us. Sharp-eyed rea...

DAREDEVILS: Our recent columns about Coxy Wilcox doing head stands at the tops of oil derricks and elsewhere in the 1920s and ’30s bought back memorie...

HUNTING STORIES: David A. Busch has been following our series of hunting stories and called last week to add his — actually his father’s — to our moun...

TURKEY SEASON: Mary Williams, who shared her story of a long-ago deer hunt that was guided from above and was the subject of Wednesday’s ’Round the Sq...

HELP FROM ABOVE: Mary Williams was only recently married in the 1970s when she and her husband, Ed Mockaitis, were students at Mansfield State Univers...

ANOTHER COXY: Doris Wilcox of Duke Center called with a postscript to our columns about Levi “Coxy” Wilcox, a daredevil of the oil fields who did head...

CROSSWALKS: A couple of readers have apparently taken offense at our criticism of some drivers who ignore the crosswalks on Boylston Street, and of ou...

FLOWER FORECAST: We’re always interested in folklore surrounding long-term weather forecasts, like reading woolly worms to predict the severity of win...

A VET’S STORY: With all the solemnity at Veterans Day observances on Monday, a visit from Robert Vincich of Derrick Road was a change of pace. Robert,...

VETERANS DAY: We hadn’t planned to attend the Veterans Day Mass at St. Bernard Catholic Church on Sunday, but when someone like 90-year-old Elmer DeLu...

UPSIDE DOWN: Darell D. Harris of Oswayo dropped us a note last week to tell us our item about Mike Paterniti and his Headstands for Humanity charity r...

CAMP STORIES: With the onset of fall and the beginning of hunting seasons, we’ve noticed more activity around seasonal camps that have been fairly emp...

LOCAL CONNECTION: The story and photo on Page 20 of last Thursday’s Era jolted Angie Cipriano of Derrick City. The story was about a ceremony on Oct. ...

BUZZARDS’ SMELL: Back in August we wrote about a bevy of buzzards hanging out on a barn along Minard Run Road, apparently waiting for a meal of roadki...

UPSIDE DOWN: Mike Paterniti of Bradford is using his head. A Facebook stunt he started in June has blossomed into a new charitable endeavor that is bu...

As the weather starts to get cold, local food pantries are preparing for the upcoming holidays, which is a busy time of year for giving. While local f...

WAR MEMORIES: As a 9-year-old in 1942, Jim Randolph was too young to know much about the global upheaval of World War II. From a child’s perspective, ...