RTS (Round the Square)

MORE AIRPORT: The opening of the Bradford Airport we’ve been talking about recently has opened up a host of memories for local residents. Dick Bova of...

UNITED AIRLINES DAY: It was this day 66 years ago that a giant celebration was held to welcome air service at the Bradford-McKean Airport in Mount Alt...

TIME CAPSULE: Imagine coming up with an idea, watching that idea be launched into space on a spacecraft, then watching that spacecraft bring your idea...

ZOMBIE ANTS: A study was recently conducted by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences on how a one living thing can control the mind of another...

LABOR DAY: “The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for...

LUNA PARK: Bradford Township resident Rocco Camus called about Luna Park, which was formerly in Bradford. He doesn’t remember the park himself, but he...

START TIMES: A co-worker passed along this Associated Press article in which pediatricians are calling for later school start times for teenagers. Wit...

GASOLINE: Pete Palumbo, a retired chemistry teacher at Otto-Eldred Junior-Senior High School and St. Bonaventure university, wrote to us Wednesday in ...

FORBES: It seems a local company has made the pages of “Forbes” magazine. Again. For at least the fourth time, Zippo Manufacturing Co. has been featur...

WHAT? : The world’s largest pyramid isn’t in Egypt; the panda is not really a bear; a strawberry isn’t a berry; and the Statue of Liberty isn’t in New...

REMINDER : Bradford resident Sam Sylvester, himself a now-retired career Navy man, reminded us that today is an important date to mark American milita...

HISTORY : A longtime friend of RTS has sent us another goody to share — this time one of international historical significance. Clayton Vecellio sent ...

BAILEY: We thought our readers would be interested to learn we heard an update from the owner of a dog featured in Monday’s column. On Monday, we wrot...

LA DIVA: Opera singer and former Bradford resident Marilyn Horne has been named “Honorary La Diva of Old Spanish Days,” which take place annually at h...

MORE ON V-E DAY: After hearing John E. Rimer’s memories on Tuesday from the end of World War II, reader Frederick Young shared his own recollections f...

LOCAL FINDS: Phyllis Montgomery of Hinsdale, N.Y., shared information pertaining to a question we asked in Friday’s column. We were wondering whether ...

THE WILDS: Derrick City resident James Dushaw dropped off an article he found recently about the Pennsylvania Wilds that appeared in an unlikely place...

MORE ‘MAGIC’: One reader who didn’t give us a name passed along this tidbit after reading a recent column. This person writes, “In reference to the RT...

MORE CURIOSITIES: “More deer than people live in sparsely populated Potter County,” said writer Clark DeLeon in his segment on Galeton and its lumber ...

ODD TREASURE: We recently came across an odd treasure at a local estate sale. We picked up “Pennsylvania Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddi...