RTS (Round the Square)

MORE NUTS: Although we had been skeptical that the nut trees found in the Rimrock Scenic Overlook at the Allegheny National Forest were the American c...

NUT CASES: Here a nut, there a burr, everywhere a leaf, leaf. We've accumulated quite a few specimens which relate to our recent columns about the Ame...

STILL TIME: Want a quick pick-me-up for the end of winter? Jim Sellmer, associate professor of ornamental horticulture in Penn State's College of Agri...

TEA TIME?: How about this as a solution to our high gas prices? Jack Homa of "Klondike" writes, "I think it is time for our crack investigative team f...

WILLIAMS DRIVE: "The article in the Nov. 8 Era about the Christmas house is a story that should bring praise by Bradford Township officials for the sp...

CROSS-CAT?: Fran Bottone of Bradford has an interesting theory about that big cat near Duke Center, a picture of which we printed a couple weeks ago. ...

VETS DAY: A veteran friend of ours has a Vietnam vet license plate on his car. He was at a gas station a few years back when the attendant came to the...

GAS NOTES: More today from our roving gas reporters: Theresa Tunall wrote us a week ago: "I just returned from visiting my son in Edgemoor S.C. (which...

WHITE OAK: One of our favorite trees is November's "tree of the month" - the white oak. The Bureau of Forestry, Elk State Forest, tells us that the wh...

ESKIMO VISIT: We began yesterday to tell you about a letter Bradford Landmark Society just received from the great-grandson of an Eskimo family who ha...

ESKIMO UPDATE: Imagine hearing from someone after a visit 80 years ago! That, essentially, is what happened to Bradford Landmark Society which recentl...

BOBCAT?: Several readers tell us the large cat pictured in Saturday's column was definitely a bobcat - not a mountain lion. They pointed to the bobbed...

WILCOX GUY: In a column last week, we had passed along a reader's item about a baseball player named DeChano who had helped pitch a no-hitter at the Y...

SURVIVAL TIPS: Everyone keeps predicting record turnout for today's presidential election so we pass along some "survival tips" from the League of Wom...

1890 ELECTION: In its current newsletter, the Landmark Society reprints this poem, written in 1890 and published in The Bradford Era. The sentiment is...

BIG CAT: Get a load of this cat: Don Rice sent along a photograph taken at the end of September near Duke Center by an automatic stationary trail came...

FAMOUS FOLKS: We had some serious omissions in our recent recitation of famous people to visit Bradford. That's the word from Frederick J. Young of Br...

IKE LOVITZ: Jim Flynn of Erie writes about Ike Lovitz, one of several so-called ragmen who worked the Bradford area. "I used to sell our newspapers to...

SPORTS TALK: Larry Vecellio of Gainesville, Ga., has a follow-up on our recent column about local sports. He writes, "I can recall playing in the McKe...

THREE RAGMEN: Lee Lovitz of Coventry, R.I., explains the confusion over the name of the so-called "ragmen" who lived in Bradford. He writes, "There we...