RTS (Round the Square)

WINTER '43: "The winter of 1843 was remarkable for its unusual mildness during the month of January, as well as for its great severity later in the se...

DARK SKIES: Hal Harmon of Bradford, having read our previous column about the spectacular dark skies in this region, has a suggestion for viewing: "I ...

ONE MORE: Jerry Tarbox of Droney Road tells us two robins, those faithful harbingers of spring, visited his yard Wednesday morning. LARRY PEACE: Fred ...

OH, IRELAND: The magazines about Ireland mentioned in Tuesday's RTS got a whole train of St. Patrick's Day thoughts rolling along. We even picked up s...

TAKE NOTE: If you drink spring water or well water, you might want to take some extra precautions given the large volume of gastrointestinal illness i...

THEY'RE BACK!: "Robin sighting - well, actually a couple, here in the booming metropolis of Kushequa at 6:56 a.m. today (Saturday) but no male red win...

LOOK UP: When you live in an area as unspoiled as ours, it's easy to take some simple things for granted. Like a sky full of stars. Would you believe ...

COVER GIRL: A beautiful picture of an elk - you can practically pet her - adorns the cover of the March/April edition of Pennsylvania magazine. Willia...

HOODY HOO!: We were intrigued when scanning the Potter Leader Enterprise, Couderport's weekly newspaper, to find a photograph of a large group of peop...

LARRY PEACE: A new entry today in our ongoing contest to name Bradford's "greatest" athlete. We heard from Derrick Milne of Bradford: "First of all, I...

LADYBEETLES: Every year, we get questions about hordes of ladybugs - actually, the Asian ladybeetles - and how to get rid of them without resorting to...

LOOK UP: Geese galore! Two separate reports Friday one from Patty of Clermont and a second from James of Tacks Inn each of whom saw northbound flocks ...

ASK GRANDMA: If there's anyone out there who know about hard times, it's the generation that survived the Great Depression and World War II. It's time...

ASK GRANDMA: If there's anyone out there who know about hard times, it's the generation that survived the Great Depression and World War II. It's time...

SLED COMPANY: A little girl with polio was the inspiration of a McKean County man who came up with an invention that would make sledding easier for ki...

OUR TOWN: Judy Rose drops us a line, "I would like to pass on this e-mail I received from my sister in New Jersey. I thought it was very interesting a...

JIM OWENS: Dick Bova of Port Allegany writes, "Another little Jim Owens story. As teen-agers, we had a baseball league that included Cyclone, Smethpor...

WHICH ONE?: John C. McCoy of El Prado, N.M., can sympathize with our struggles with the English language. He writes, "In the early '80s, I was charged...

LOCAL ANGLE?: Doreen Tominez of Rochester, N.Y., has a post-Oscar question. "At sixth ward school there was a librarian by the name of Mrs. Dalton (th...

GRAMMAR COPS: Judith dePonceau of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, writes to us after learning of the retirement of Jim Kilpatrick, long-time author of The Writ...