RTS (Round the Square)

PATRIOTIC PIXIE: We normally don’t succumb to the pleas of great-grandmothers but how could we resist this cute face and patriotic outfit? We couldn’t...

SILVER WINGS: John Wozer’s vivid story of the hazards of being a fighter pilot in World War II was featured in a Buffalo News article published around...

PAPER DRIVE: Cy Anderson of Kane was one of those youngsters who won a bus trip to Niagara Falls for winning a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette subscription dr...

RAINBOW VISIT: Local people and institutions are girding for the arrival of the so-called Rainbow Family as if a horde of barbarians were about to des...

THAT GROWL: A man who walks his dogs on the Pitt trail every morning was a little apprehensive about telling anyone what he had heard: “a big cat grow...

BATMEN: The Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking for a few good batmen — and batwomen, and batkids, too. Here’s the deal: Biologists need help in t...

NICK SINIBALDI: To say Nick Sinibaldi, long-time band director in St. Marys, was loved by his former students is an understatement. Now we learn his w...

JOHN CUMMISKEY: John J. Cummiskey, an irreplaceable source of local sports history, passed away Saturday at the age of 89. For more of the story, plea...

TUCKER TIME: Shirley Gault of Smethport passes along a colorful first-hand report from her 89-year-old brother Jim Mansfield of Wellsville, N.Y., abou...

PITT PANTHER?: If you’re in the vicinity of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, here’s something to think about. Whitey Farnsworth of Bradford, ...

ANOTHER CAT: It was 24 years ago, when Lisa Pecherzewski was a teen-ager spending time with her grandparents in Rew. She heard a noise — very loud, li...

GOOD IDEA: We read in our very own newspaper about a good idea already going on in some places in the country. It’s called, “time banks,” and we think...

1938 ISSUE: “After a busy winter at school, boys and girls need the health-giving contact with sun and wind, nature’s great restoratives and energizer...

1938 ISSUE: “After a busy winter at school, boys and girls need the health-giving contact with sun and wind, nature’s great restoratives and energizer...

ST. MARYS: Our new circulation manager Don Watts has been traveling throughout our territory and comes back with some interesting observations. St. Ma...

1938 ISSUE: “After a busy winter at school, boys and girls need the health-giving contact with sun and wind, nature’s great restoratives and energizer...

SNEAK PREVIEW: Countrysuperstar LeAnn Rimes is coming to Bradford. That’s the word from Shane Oschman, president of the Bradford Creative and Performi...

STEVE HODGES: This community sure lost a friend — and a fan — with the death a week ago of Steve Hodges, a long-time Bradfordian, at the age of 94. St...

NEWS OF 1910: “The old scout will never visit here again in the area,” the story begins. “Possibly no country ever had a character so universally know...

FLAG DAY: A reader stopped by with an old clipping that seems pertinent today, Flag Day: “Hello. Remember me? Some people call me Old Glory, others ca...