RTS (Round the Square)

SPORTS SCENE: Joe Bennett of West Lafayette, Ind., has a follow-up to our article on Frank Langianese's career as a football umpire: "Growing up in Le...

INDIAN SUMMER?: "Have we been enjoying Indian summer weather? I don't think so because my dad told me that we have squaw winter first (the snow arrive...

GAS STORIES: As our gasoline prices vacillate, so do reports from our traveling correspondents from across the country. Tom Ewell of Montgomery, N.Y.,...

JUNK MAN: Bill "Gus" Gocella writes us from Crossville, Tenn.: "I remember growing up during the WW II and after and there was a 'junk man.' His name ...

BRADFORD FAN: Who was that man at EPCOT at Disney World in Florida that sang high praises of Bradford? Chuck Mortimer, who had lived on Bolivar Drive,...

LOOK UP: Our first report this season of overhead geese comes from Art Slike of Bradford who heard the honking on Sunday after he came out of church. ...

ONE MORE: Lester Jordan of Smethport has a follow-up on our reports about Holmes and Gilfillan, a store in Smethport which carried lumber and assorted...

THE RAGMAN: Jake, the "Ragman," must have been quite a character. "Rags, paper, junk!" was the chant. "You heard him a block away," says Bill Ayers of...

SMALL WORLD: When reporter Marcie Schellhammer was on a recent vacation at Disney World, she and her family had an experience that falls into our "sma...

GAS PAIN: We've been pleased to see the price of a gallon of gasoline dropping but, as always, disappointed to learn that Bradford's prices remain sub...

THE RAGMAN: Fred Cramer of Bradford tells us the "ragman" we had asked about was Jake Lovets who had a junkyard on Pearl Street. Fred, who lived on In...

FOR THE BIRDS: Perhaps this column will be preaching to the choir but we must tell you about an article we received from Project FeederWatch which say...

REUNION BLUES: Barney Snyder of Tucson, Ariz., writes, "Your column about reunions and get togethers was a good one. I never attended a reunion until ...

COLORFUL TIME: We hear from Louie "Corky" Galloway of Tucson, Ariz.: "This is the time of year when my thoughts are often filled with images of the co...

WOOLLY WORM: Good news from a woolly worm spied by Carol Parrett of Rew: There was a little black at the front end and the rest was all brown. Our int...

NUT CASE: A week or so ago, we carried a story about an American chestnut tree being found within the Allegheny National Forest. But Dick Robertson of...

ON CNN: Oh, the wonders of the Internet! If you're one of those people dying to see that CNN story about the value of stripper wells in meeting our en...

MY HOMETOWN: "The other day at work I was conversing with a coworker. I stated that I was from northwestern Pennsylvania near the New York border. She...

WITCH HAZEL: Somehow, it seems appropriate that the witch hazel is the tree of the month of October. The state Bureau of Forestry tells us, "The witch...

STILL MORE: You can't help but be impressed by the lists we've been running of famous people who have visited Bradford over the last hundred years or ...