RTS (Round the Square)

NEW BLOOD: Bradford is truly blessed by a corps of talented artists and craftsmen. For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Edition. Plea...

ZIPPO NOTE: A Zippo lighter helped identify the remains of a soldier missing in Vietnam since 1969, one of three men buried in a single casket recentl...

SAME ONE?: This place is “crawling” with caterpillars ... literally. For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Edition. Please note that t...

FALL FRIENDS: While we love the Internet for its ease of research, we must admit that it takes all the magic out of some subjects. For complete storie...

CATERPILLAR FAN: Sammantha Curcio, a 5th grader at Smethport Elementary School, weighs in on the photographs we ran on Aug. 25 of a big caterpillar fo...

IT'S TODAY: Got a newspaper in your hands? Thank the reporters, editors, photographers, press crew, drivers and carriers for The Bradford Era who work...

ALREADY GONE: Juanita in Smethport tells us Wednesday that her male hummingbirds have already departed for the winter leaving the females behind, figh...

WORM WORDS: If you think your kid’s teacher makes too much money, consider the following: For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Editio...

BUG LOVE: Talk about an expert. We heard from a Bradford resident who has worked in caterpillar taxonomy and even had a Cecropia as a lab pet. He assu...

COLD DAYS: We remember sitting in the newsroom trying to type while wearing gloves since the thermostat was set at a mandatory 65 degrees. For complet...

BR-R-R-ADFORD: While you’re thinking “good riddance” to the sweltering summer of 2012, consider this: On Jan 18, 1977, the predicted high for the day ...

THOSE BIRDS: No doubt, a few readers are probably interested in seeing what the extinct passenger pigeon looked like. For complete stories, subscribe ...

BUG NOTES: Fair warning: A couple pictures of a very ugly caterpillar are about to appear. If you're squeamish, you might want to cover up the rest of...

BIRD HUNT: Walter Klock in 1973 concludes the account of the massacre of the passenger pigeon in Cameron County by providing a report from Editor S.S....

FIRST BIRD: "Amos' house was a block from the Flats, and it seemed to him that all the pigeons who couldn't get landed on the Flat field were flying u...

AMOS' BUMP: "I do not hunt. Brother Gordon does not hunt. Father Loyal Dudley did not hunt. Grandfather Elmer would not hunt." For complete stories, s...

WIND WHIPPED: Wondering what happened to the U.S. flags that once bedecked West Washington Street near St. Bernard school? For complete stories, subsc...

DEBT 101: Bad enough graduating with college loans, but American students are also swimming in a sea of credit card debt. For complete stories, subscr...

DOLLAR DAY: "Shortly after 2 o'clock the excitement became wilder and men crawled over each other in order to get to the bullring: The market was reac...

HELL BENT: "A dense mass of men about the bullring, each one pushing and elbowing to get nearest the inner circle, a thicket of waving arms, a covey o...