RTS (Round the Square)

TURN OFF: With the primary election tomorrow in Pennsylvania, this is probably a bad time to mention it but this is Turn-Off Week when Americans are a...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Joe Cucuzza phoned Thursday to report picking Mayflowers behind the former Valley Hunt Club in Lewis Run - what we always wait for as t...

IN THE BALLPARK: We were "in the ballpark" - but still a half-block off - when we reported on the location of Bradford's old Community Ball Park on Bo...

EQUAL TIME: We've have many, many columns in past months about downtown Bradford's old stores. East Bradford deserves equal time and Nancy Merry Ezzol...

EQUAL TIME: We've have many, many columns in past months about downtown Bradford's old stores. East Bradford deserves equal time and Nancy Merry Ezzol...

IN THE BALLPARK: We were "in the ballpark" - but still a half-block off - when we reported on the location of Bradford's old Community Ball Park on Bo...

IT'S TONIGHT: Does it seem like a cancer cure is "just around the corner" - and has been for the past few decades? If you, too, have wondered about th...

PLAY BALL: Our tiny item about Bradford's minor league ball teams drew some quick response: Bill Bedell of Jacksonville, Fla., writes, "Ahhh, the 'Bal...

LUNCH TIME: "I was talking on my office phone while watching a meadowlark just outside the window. Suddenly, a sharp-shinned hawk came out of nowhere ...

A TRIBUTE: We admit to being a "sap" for a beautiful old tree, so we could relate to Bobbie Joe McCormick of Bradford who pointed out one we'd passed ...

HUNGRY BEAR: If you're in the East Smethport area, be on the lookout for a very hungry 400-pound bear. That's the word today from Alice Elliott who te...

ART WORK: Our item on Jack Clark, the creator of the Zippo art department, sparked a memory for a Florida man. Ronald Mealey of Venice, Fla., writes, ...

MORE PEEPS: Rudy Luce and Hunter Cole of Marshburg heard the first peepers of the year at about 6 p.m. Sunday at Sugar Run. "They were loud. Really lo...

APRIL 1, 1945: "Sixty-three years ago on April 1, 1945, the battle for Okinawa began. We landed on the north end of the island. I don't remember the J...

OH, ZIPPO: We always think we've heard every story there is about Zippo but Alice Razzano of Winnabow, N.C., passes along a new one about the company'...

LT. ENRIGHT: Mardi Karr of Kirkland, Wash., writes: "I am the niece of Robert Enright who was killed at the Battle of Midway. I've been in awe of the ...

WPSU.ORG : When U.S. Rep. John Peterson announced a couple months ago he was retiring, it set off groans throughout newsrooms across his sprawling 5th...

FIRST ONES: Our very first peeper report for 2008 comes from Chip Swanson of Wilcox at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Just a few hours later, at 7:55 p.m., Debbie De...

LT. ENRIGHT: Mardi Karr of Kirkland, Wash., writes: "I am the niece of Robert Enright who was killed at the Battle of Midway. I've been in awe of the ...

FIRST ONES: Our very first peeper report for 2008 comes from Chip Swanson of Wilcox at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Just a few hours later, at 7:55 p.m., Debbie De...