RTS (Round the Square)

OIL NOTES: Pat Clifford of Oconomowoc, Wisc., has a few comments on the oilfields around Bradford: “Back in the early ’50s my dad would take me to wor...

GREAT ADVENTURE: World War II pilot Wildrick Hart of Bradford has written a fascinating story of his bombing runs over Germany and France, and we were...

OLD FRIENDS: Some post scripts on that Wall Street Journal story about long-time pals and pols in Lewis Run: Ed Rose of Beaumont, Texas, and a native ...

401K BLUES: Once upon a time, “retirement” meant leaving work forever at age 65. Today, that description no longer applies to many of the millions of ...

DYNAMIC DUO: Talk about politics making for strange bedfellows. That might be true, figuratively and somewhat literally, for the team of leaders in Le...

DYNAMIC DUO: It’s not too often you see a local face on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. But we did on Monday when there was a signature Jou...

NICK’S RECIPE: Not long ago a reader lamented the loss of the Texas hot recipe from Nick’s Red Hots. It’s not lost at all … but not exactly found, eit...

BEST PLACE: Gary Barr writes, “Reading Becky Yunkun’s recollections of days gone by brings the nostalgia out. There wasn’t a better place in the late ...

SAME OLD: With a nod to today’s general election, we pass along some interesting political fodder from RTS reader Jan Graham: “In doing some genealogi...

BIRD NOTES: With our snowfall of a few weeks ago, Dick Robertson decided to put up his bird feeders early this year. Turned out to be a good move. So ...

IT’S TONIGHT: All the little goblins and ghouls will be out tonight trick-or-treating so be careful driving on the streets and roads. Poor kids. When ...

DOG DAYS: Our recent conversation about the old Texas hots places has brought some mail. John Carson of Bradford writes, “I must clear up the confusio...

THE DEEPS: Becky Yunkun of Laurel, Md., remembers Fathom Deep as “the place my brother Dan Close and his friends ruled during their growing-up years! ...

WILD PIGS: Susan Godfrey phoned Sunday night to tell us her experience with those scary-looking feral pigs photographed not far from Allegany State Pa...

E-FRIENDS: There are days, especially when it gets pretty busy around here, that we are grateful for our online friends whose memories of Bradford are...

WINTER MUSTS: Don’t look now but winter is closing in … and quickly. AAA sends us some reminders of items frequently overlooked as motorists begin win...

SWIMMING HOLES: More followup today on Bradford’s old swimming holes… Judi Robinson writes, “Back in the ’50s up Hedgehog Lane at the base of the moun...

LADYBUGS GALORE: No, no, no! The government did not have planes fly off and drop hordes of ladybugs on the populace! Our ongoing spate of warm weather...

SPECIAL DELIVERY: Jim Burns of Ramona, Calif., found a baby — that’s right, a newborn child — while delivering the newspapers during the 1950s. Jim an...

SEASONAL SIGNS: We spotted a woolly bear caterpillar Saturday crawling along the road in ignorant bliss of the snow only inches away. From our reading...