Breaking News, Local News
December 26, 2025
Due to the severity of Friday's winter storm, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is temporarily prohibiting trucks heavier than 1...
Baseball, Columns, Local Sports
Jul 29, 2022
Little League Baseball can use whatever justification it wants. After changing the World Series path for its United States teams, however, the formula...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jul 28, 2022
There are all sorts of sayings about almost every subject. Some of them are quite insightful and to the point. Several that come readily to mind are: ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jul 21, 2022
I was walking a Rhode Island trail this week, paralleling an ancient stone wall. What was that strange sound? Could it be an immature catbird? No, the...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Jul 18, 2022
The countdown is in its final few days. Come Sunday, the Bills open their training camp at the newly renamed St. John Fisher University. Buffalo and t...
Columns, Football, High School, ...
Jul 13, 2022
It’s not without irony that two beloved Bradford High School football coaches, who led the Owls for 26 consecutive seasons, passed away within five mo...
Baseball, Basketball, Columns, ...
Jul 11, 2022
Some random thoughts from the past week: — Last Friday night, I was watching highlights on the MLB Network, waiting for the Dodgers-Cubs to start. The...
Baseball, Columns, Local Sports
Jul 09, 2022
Major League Baseball’s offensive problem is obvious. Teams don’t score enough runs — and hitters don’t make contact often enough — to hold viewers’ a...
Columns, Golf, Local Sports
Jul 08, 2022
Call it the law of unintended consequences. Last August, Chris Blocher, inarguably the Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur G...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jul 07, 2022
Some of the things I really enjoy about retirement are very simple. Take, for example, the weather. Winter brings those bitter cold days when the wind...
Columns, Local Sports
Jun 28, 2022
Full disclosure, I’m totally prejudiced about the subject of this column. My all-time, undisputed favorite female athlete is Chris Evert. To be sure, ...
Columns, High School, Local Sports, ...
Jun 24, 2022
(Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series on the emergence of local youth trap shooting. Today, on the sport’s growing popularity in McK...
Columns, Local Sports
Jun 23, 2022
(Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series on the emergence of local youth trap shooting. Today, on how Bradford built a flourishing progr...
Columns, High School, Local Sports
Jun 21, 2022
When Rick Woodring arrived at Smethport Area High School in the winter of 1976, he only planned on staying one semester. An implant from Lawrence Coun...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jun 16, 2022
Just recently, I invited a couple to my home for a fish dinner. They were excited to accept. They loved how I prepared fish and looked forward to comi...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Jun 16, 2022
Some random thoughts on the National Football League as its teams take slightly more than a month off between today’s end of minicamp and the opening ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jun 09, 2022
Anticipation. Oh, how often that word influences our life in so many ways. There are so many “firsts” in our lives — school, dates, overnights away fr...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jun 02, 2022
I was soundly asleep and instantly irritated at some level in my subconscious when, for an unknown reason, my eyes opened. My body was perfectly relax...
Columns, Football, High School, ...
May 31, 2022
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on the District 9 football offseason. Today, D9 adopts a new conference alignment format for t...
Columns, National Sports, Sports
May 30, 2022
I’ve always loved the Sunday before Memorial Day. That goes back to my pre-teen years in rural Albany when my father and I would unfailingly and breat...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
May 27, 2022
To be sure, it’s not real football. It never is in shorts, shirts and helmets. Indeed, the name itself intimates as much. Organized Team Activities, a...
PA State News
December 29, 2025
(TNS) — Mary Jo Armstrong and her ex-husband, William, didn't exactly remarry for love. They remarried for health insurance. After 18 years of marriag...
Lifestyles, PA State News
December 29, 2025
(TNS) — Here in Pennsylvania, it’s a tradition to eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day. Germans, who migrated to the states brought along the rec...
Local News
December 29, 2025
Across the country, gas prices are posted below $2 per gallon in more than a dozen states this week. Pennsylvania is not one of them. According to Gas...
Crime, Nation & World, PA State News
December 29, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Human trafficking networks are complex. But for more than a decade, artificial intelligence has helped one Pittsburgh startup unrav...
Local News
December 29, 2025
It will be an icy cold New Year. A series of weather systems will impact the Bradford area over the next several days, bringing multiple rounds of sno...
Nation & World, PA State News
December 29, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro will soon become the top-earning governor in the U.S. after an automatic cost-of-living pay bump goes into effect...
