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RTS for Thursday, November 12, 2009
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Nov 12, 2009
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...
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RTS for Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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Nov 11, 2009
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...
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RTS for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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Nov 10, 2009
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 ...
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RTS for Monday November 9, 2009
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Nov 09, 2009
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 ...
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RTS for Saturday, November 7, 2009
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Nov 07, 2009
DYNAMIC DUO: Talk about politics making for strange bedfellows. That might be true, figuratively and somewhat literally, for the team of leaders in Le...
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RTS for Friday, November 6, 2009
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Nov 06, 2009
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...
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RTS for Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Nov 05, 2009
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...
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RTS for Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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Nov 04, 2009
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 ...
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RTS for Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Nov 03, 2009
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...
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RTS for Monday November 2, 2009
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Nov 02, 2009
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 ...
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RTS for Saturday, October 31, 2009
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Oct 31, 2009
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 ...
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RTS for Friday, October 30, 2009
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Oct 30, 2009
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...
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RTS for Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Oct 29, 2009
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! ...
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RTS for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Oct 28, 2009
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...
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RTS for Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Oct 27, 2009
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...
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RTS for Monday October 26, 2009
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Oct 26, 2009
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...
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RTS for Saturday, October 24, 2009
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Oct 24, 2009
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...
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RTS for Friday, October 23, 2009
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Oct 23, 2009
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...
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RTS for Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Oct 22, 2009
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...
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RTS for Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Oct 21, 2009
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...
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