RTS (Round the Square)

FAMOUS VISITORS: We told you yesterday about political visitors to Bradford over the years, but Bradford Landmark Society reports the town also hosted...

FAMOUS VISITORS: We told you yesterday about political visitors to Bradford over the years, but Bradford Landmark Society reports the town also hosted...

FAMED VISITORS: We'll all be glued to the TV set tonight watching the vice presidential debate. But, Bradford residents of a previous time could have ...

'67 RAMBLERS: Patrick McVay of Hingham, Mich., has been following our columns about the St. Bernard football program of the late 1950s. "As a young bo...

CENTURY AGO: Our "Years Ago" feature on the editorial page brings us a lot of feedback, particularly the items from 100 years ago in Bradford. They pr...

RIGHT TIME: Life is all about the timing, isn't it? Consider this example. A reader tells us of watching a cat patiently crouch over a chipmunk's hole...

BAND HEADS: We've had column after column lately about high school football so today we turn it over to a former member of Bradford's marvelous marchi...

GOOD IDEA: Following up on our columns on some of the great high school football contests of the 1950s, Courtney "Gus" Gustafson of Fort Loudon, Pa., ...

FAMILY LORE: Nancy Leichner of Smethport has a family legend about how Bradford got its name. Her great-great-grandfather was Henry Bradford Dollorf, ...

PART 2: We left our readers hanging yesterday amid the final few minutes of the 1959 season opener between St. Bernard Ramblers and the Smethport Hubb...

HEARTBREAKER: The man who broke the hearts of St. Bernard football fans in 1959 stopped by the other day with an Era clipping telling how the Smethpor...

GOIN' BATTY: In case you haven't noticed, it's the first "official" day of autumn although it's felt like fall for several weeks. With the change of t...

LOCAL ANGLE: A couple of alert readers spotted a local name in Kathleen Parker's syndicated column that appeared in the Era on Sept. 12 Vice Admiral E...

GO HUBBERS: We have a full report today on another legendary football team - the Smethport Hubbers of 1959. We had reported about a St. Bernard High S...

NAME GAME: Just as we suspected, there was a little bit of intrigue in how Bradford got its name. Returning to the Rev. Dominic Monti's information, p...

VOTE!: Today is Constitution Day so we have an excuse to be a little preachy. In just a few weeks, Americans go to the polls to elect a new president....

IKE'S MIGHT: The wind howling Sunday night as the remnants of Hurricane Ike blew through was freaky for a night in September. To us, it was more like ...

TREE TIME: You've seen the old photographs: The hills of Bradford denuded of every tree and yet dotted with oilwells. The tree that used to be there i...

NAME GAME: Angela Nuzzo of Bradford sheds some light on one facet of "the convoluted story" of how Bradford got its name. Citing the book, "McKean: Th...

DON RAABE: Pat Clifford of Oconomowoc, Wisc., a 1960 graduate of St. Bernard's, remembers Coach Don Raabe: "I was a freshman when Don Raabe took over ...