RTS (Round the Square)

LONG MEMORY: Wayne Caskey of Webster, N.Y., a Port Allegany native, dropped us a note to share a memory from his school days in the early 1930s. “When...

SIGNS OF SPRING: We’ve already reported on Canada geese flying north, flocks of robins in hay fields and red-winged blackbirds returning to bird feede...

MORE ON BARBERS: Our recent columns about Mike Ross’ 70-plus years in the barbering business have spawned a number of calls about other longtime barbe...

LOCAL CONNECTION: It seems that wherever our readers travel, they find connections to Bradford and our history. Jim McFetridge of Smethport took a win...

BARBERING BIZ: Barber shops and barbers have dwindled over the seven decades Mike Ross has been cutting hair, and the reasons for that are as varied a...

MIKE’S BACK: We’re happy to report that Mike Ross is back at work in his barber shop in the Seneca Building after being out sick for about a month. We...

FIRST ROBINS: Kathy Gotshall of Port Allegany called Monday to report seeing her first robins of the season. She spotted a flock of them — 50 to 75 st...

A FITTING MONUMENT: We mentioned on Saturday the historic keystone sign that marks the intersection of Looker Mountain Trail and South Kendall Avenue ...

STATE MARKERS: At one time, there were more than 20,000 blue and gold keystone-shaped highway markers that identified towns, roads and other places of...

CLOSE SHAVE: You’ll have to forgive a large number of Bradford men whose coiffures are a bit unkempt these days. Longtime barber Mike Ross, who has cl...

CAUGHT NAPPING: We must have been asleep at the wheel when this information came into the newsroom or we would have passed it along earlier. For compl...

MARSHBURG BLAST: On Tuesday we left you with Tom Frair’s father, Jiggs, being knocked off his feet on March 8, 1953, as he spoke on the phone in the k...

BIRTHDAY BLAST: Tom Frair of Marshburg dropped in to share pictures and recount an event 60 years ago this coming Friday that shook Marshburg and his ...

OLD TIME RECIPE: Judy Leroy passes along this “recipe” she got from a friend, Donna Gocella, who got it from someone else. For complete stories, subsc...

CHUKAR SIGHTING: Perhaps those chukars mentioned earlier in the week aren’t as unusual hereabouts as we thought. For complete stories, subscribe to Th...

WATCH PARTY: Bigfoot enthusiasts now have a place to gather with their sasquatch-hunting brethren Sunday night to watch the airing of an episode of “F...

TREES : Bruno Carnovale of Emporium loaned us “The Forestry Primer” published by The American Tree Association in 1926 “to mark the semi-centennial of...

WAR GAMES : Bob Slike also remembers the 1940s war re-enactment a reader asked about in a recent column. For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradfo...

GUEST : Birder Gladys in Custer City sent along this photo of a bird who had taken up residence in her woodshed for the better part of February. For c...

MEMOIR: Alene “Lee” Sage of Bradford loaned us a book written by her late sister-in-law, Esther Robbins Hutton. Titled “Sojourn: A Family Saga,” it in...