RTS (Round the Square)

GOOGILY EYES: Robert Ward of Wellsboro writes: "A few days ago, you mentioned a few of the old time funnies. Who can forget some of the others, i.e., ...

TOM KEANE: Call it a popularity contest, of sorts, but Tom Keane of Bradford was voted "Sportsman of the Century" in a poll taken many years ago by th...

THE BEST: "Pitcher Jim Owens and football star Stew Barber are two athletes the Bradford area can be proud of, but neither can lay claim to being 'Bra...

WELCOME NEWS: We are so in the dead of winter in mid-February, and yet … hope? Mary Maxine Weis of Emporium phoned Monday to tell us her snow drops ar...

BEAR ALERT: Beware: Some local bears are out of hibernation. We've had a couple reports in the last week or so that bears have been spotted at a few l...

NASCAR NOTES: Our recent note on the 1958 NASCAR race at Bradford Speedway has drawn some interesting feedback including this note from Sharon Andress...

WORM WORDS: "We found a woolly bear caterpillar outside yesterday (Sunday) happily crawling along in a bare spot of grass!" We received the photo from...

SWEET NOTE: Kristie Bentley of Grayslake, Ill., writes, "My grandfather was Bill Goss. Among all of my wonderful memories of this quiet man one surfac...

LINCOLN PENNY: Our daily look through Bradford Eras of 100 years ago brought forth this interesting piece of trivia. It was during the month of Februa...

TOP ATHLETES: Max Schlopy of Park City, Utah, who told us yesterday about Jim Owens and growing up in the good old days before organized sports for ki...

BEST EVER?: Max Schlopy of Park City, Utah, writes about RTS subject Jim Owens and about life in the Bradford area before "organized" sports: "I grew ...

TODAY'S THOUGHT: Ah, Wintertime! It's winter in Pennsylvania And the gentle breezes blow (Seventy miles an hour, At twenty-five below.) Oh, how I love...

BIRD BLITZ: If you're already a bird watcher - and we know lots of our readers are - we have a new one to add to your must-see list: the North America...

BLUEBIRDS: "I have seen a group of six bluebirds in our yard several times since November. I believe they are residing in our old barn. I saw them aga...

FIRST SIGN?: To heck with Punxsutawney Phil. Get a load of this note from Jack Rosenswie of Smethport: "On Wednesday morning, Feb. 4, 2009, at 7:30 a....

BILL O'CONNELL: We continue with more on former Bradfordian Bill O'Connell whose "retirement" was anything but. Less than a year after "retiring" from...

BILL O'CONNELL: "The seventh of eight children growing up on an oil lease south of Bradford, O'Connell didn't have much time for high school, never mi...

DISTAFF SIDE: Charles Kindervater Sr. of Bradford challenges our gender assertion in Thursday's paper: "I would be willing to bet that your front page...

SNOW WORDS: A caller provides the American Indian name for that sparkly snow we've been writing about - Pogonip. Apparently, it's the winter equivalen...

ELM STREET: Bill Rae of Bradford offers an explanation of why traffic has begun to accumulate on Elm Street, causing a traffic problem at the intersec...