RTS (Round the Square)

KANE NAMES: Are street names on one side of Kane named for Civil War soldiers? For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Edition. Please n...

150 YEARS AGO: “The regiment of rifles behaved finely” but Lt. Col. Kane was slightly wounded in the Battle of Dranesville some 150 years ago. For com...

FOLLOW-UPS: More feedback today on our articles about a trophy buck killed in 1830 in Farmers Valley. For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford ...

NEW HAZARD: Susan Seliger’s 85-year-old mom was “lucid and whip-smart” — until she broke her hip. For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era ...

WINTER WONDER: As if in testament to the relatively mild winter we’ve had so far, we get a photograph of a pansy in bloom near Kane. For complete stor...

WILDFLOWERS: Yes, the McKean County Historical Society is planning to remember Civil War veterans buried in McKean County ... and in an especially mea...

ARTHUR YOUNG: “For the past 10 years the Sons of the American Legion Post 138 in Smethport have been taking care of the Goodwin Cemetery in Farmers Va...

MEA CULPA: A couple people correctly pointed out that our column yesterday gave the wrong year that a giant trophy buck had been killed near Farmers V...

THAT RACK: Arthur Young was 17 when he downed a giant trophy buck in an apple orchard not far from his family’s farm at Farmers Valley on the north si...

RECORD RACK: There have been some pretty impressive deer racks we’ve seen over the years but they pale in comparison to the one which set the standard...

ROWDY TIMES: It was, according to the Era of Jan. 1,1929, one of the rowdier New Year’s eves in the city’s history. “Bradford awoke this morning after...

NICE LIGHTS: Before the holiday season is over for another year, we wanted to comment on the beauty of the new Christmas lights along Main Street and ...

SPECIAL GUEST: When Regis Philbin bid farewell on “Live with Regis and Kelly Show” on Nov. 18, a Bradford native was in the studio audience. For compl...

This is RTS for Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 PLANE CRASH: When we left them yesterday, seven Pitt-Bradford students were taking off from the Harrisburg ai...

PLANE WRECK: Two deadly plane crashes — one Christmas eve and a second on Jan. 6 — marred the holiday merriment some 43 years ago in the Bradford area...

TOMORROW: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and ...

GAS PAIN: “Let’s try to get this gas down in Bradford. We’re the highest around,” said a caller this week, just after filling up his tank in Magadore,...

TRAIN TIME: Generations of Americans know what it’s like to drift off to sleep to the soothing sound of a train whistle in the background. For complet...

RAIL MUSEUM: Before the interstate highway system was developed, freight and passenger trains dominated travel in the country — and the region. For co...

CHRISTMAS TIME: We have the Germans to thank for a good bit of the tradition surrounding the Christmas season — the tree, the ornaments and even Santa...