RTS (Round the Square)

SOUNDS GOOD: Mary Williams of Bradford writes Wednesday, “Istill have strains of ‘Panis Angelicus’ and Handel’s ‘Messiah’reverberating within mehours ...

OUR LOSS: Our affiliation with the ELF Fund, the community’s Christmas giving program sponsored by The Era, brings us into contact with many kind soul...

LOOK UP: We’ve had our eyes on blight in the City of Bradford for a while now, and apparently, so does Big Brother. Satellites orbiting the Earth have...

FINAL CHAPTER: Eagle-Eye of Kane writes what probably is the final chapter in our Woody Woodpecker saga. “With all the bad news in the papers these da...

PALM SUNDAY: Carol Longo Harris brings back Palm Sundays of years ago: “My father, Gerald Longo, son of a Sicilian immigrant from Palermo, never waver...

FAN MAIL: We got an apology and explanation from the individual who wrote the nasty letter we printed Tuesday complaining about the Bradford “Error.” ...

EARLY SIGNS: “I’m the one who enjoys reading about the first signs of spring and getting outdoors and hearing nature at its best,” writes Carl Andress...

‘DREAM’ ON: Various takes on that WESB sign-off: Gus Gocella writes, “WESB used to sign off with ‘Dreamdust’ and it was by Hoagie Carmichael. I loved ...

FLIP SIDE: “People complain about our snowy weather (I admit it is a little unhandy at times) but I haven’t found a better place to live — a good medi...

FAN MAIL: If you ever think you’d like to be the editor of a small town newspaper, consider this e-mail we received anonymously last week: “I notice i...

FREE FLEA: We’ve been sharing some “good ideas” with readers including an idea to hold a flea market where all the items are free. Such an event would...

ON ICE: Barney Snyder remembers sled riding in Bradford: “Oh, boy. Ron Lytel, Bill Hanson and I used to go way up the dirt road on Birch Street. Ron h...

ON ICE: Kristie Bentley of Grayslake, Ill., writes, “When we were growing up on Gilbert Lane my parents would take us ice skating on the pond at Willo...

FIRST PEEPS: June Caldwell of Cameron County was coming back from a prayer meeting when she heard the first peepers of the season at around 9 p.m. Tue...

IN THE SWIM: Larry English of Duke Center dropped by with a photograph of the last standard oil rig to be drilled in Derrick City in the 1940s, which ...

NEEDLE NEWS: We owe a special debt of gratitude to the cancer center at Bradford Regional Medical Center which knitted a stack of scarves last Christm...

GRAHAM’S POND: Jan Graham picks up John Rimer’s memories of her family’s skating pond: “My research shows that the first Era mention of the Graham ska...

ON ICE: “When I saw where they were opening the present-day ice rink, it brought back a lot of memories of my ice skating. Starting in mid-1930 when T...

LOOK UP: We’re not sure if our unseasonably warm weather is responsible but reports of spring harbingers have been pouring in. Ron Housler saw robins ...

BIG BIRD: Want to know what a pileated woodpecker (aka “Woody Woodpecker”) looks like? Check this out. Margie Holland dropped us a line and forwarded ...