RTS (Round the Square)

RECORD ATTEMPT: It may not be as exciting as watching someone trying to set a world land speed record, but we’ll soon have a chance to witness an atte...

BUZZARD BRIGADE: Diane Schuler was driving along Minard Run Road one afternoon last week between her Foster Hollow home and downtown when she noticed ...

RAILROAD ART: Clayton Vecillio of Lewis Run is a man of many and varied interests and a treasure trove of historical information. He surprised us this...

BIG WEEKEND: Carole Longo Harris of New Hope returned home to Bradford a couple of weeks ago for her 55th high school class reunion, which coincided w...

FAIR MEMORIES: The recent McKean County Fair moved Cliff Hastings of Rew to stop by our office to share some memories of the fair from the 1960s. For ...

MORE ON BALLOONS: Here’s a bit of a postscript on the resident balloon launch form the Bradford Ecumenical Home and Chapel Ridge. When the recreation ...

BALLOON LAUNCH: At the annual picnic for residents of the Bradford Ecumenical Home and Chapel Ridge, the facilities’ recreation staff arranged a ballo...

LEAF PEEPING: A recent email newsletter from the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau reminded us that it will soon be fall, a season that some a...

FEEDER CLEANERS: Those hummingbird feeders that have been hanging out all summer are likely to be getting sticky and grimy by now, if you haven’t been...

BLUE RIBBON: Marge Coscia of Eldred said she was “totally amazed” when her apple pie won a blue ribbon at the McKean County Fair last week. She was a ...

WINDPROOF LIGHTER: Those words usually are associated with Bradford’s Zippo Manufacturing Co., but the New Method Manufacturing Co. here also produced...

GREEN MONSTER: You might recall the giant Cecropia moth one of our readers brought in to show us in mid-June. It had a span of nearly six inches on th...

ROUTE 6 TOUR: John C. McCoy of Arlington, Va., dropped us an email earlier this week with a link to a travel story in Sunday’s Washington Post. John g...

MORE ON HAWKS: Matt Benson of Kane emailed us on Friday with more information on the mystery hawk Sam Deeter spotted near his house on Constitution Av...

EQUAL TIME: We generally try to avoid politics and politicians in ’Round the Square, but that’s pretty difficult to do when a candidate for governor d...

HAWK ID: We hope no one was betting money on what kind of a hawk Sam Deeter spotted around his home on Constitution Avenue. Chris Clark called to tell...

POLICE FEES: The help-wanted ad in Saturday’s Era struck us as unusual. The City of Warren is accepting applications for the position of police office...

ONION RECIPES: Debbie Babcox of Smethport was the first to respond to Emma Jane Burns’ request on Monday for some new onion recipes to try out on a mo...

MONSTER ONION: Emma Jane Burns admits to being an onion lover, and she came across one last week that is surely big enough to embrace. Her sister, Ali...

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