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Fall is a season of change. This year things have been a bit different. The lack of rainfall across the northern tier has affected streams and leaf co...

The end of the first half probably could not have come at a better time for Bradford High last Friday night. Unbeaten Kane had just scored six touchdo...

CINCINNATI — The bye week couldn’t have come at a better time for the Bills. Despite the 20-16 loss to the Bengals on Sunday afternoon at Paul Brown S...

One of the popular terms being floated around this time of year is the ‘Monday morning quarterback.’ Everyone likes to think themselves an expert on t...

“Hey Jane!” I shouted from my man cave not long ago. “Have you seen what I did with my range finder?” As always, Jane stopped whatever she was doing a...

Get over it people! All the talk about Bradford being too big to play in the AML has proven to be just that — talk! The Owls haven’t pulled off any ma...

It was something we always did, or so it seemed. Now, looking back we see that we were very fortunate. Like many others then and even today, the rural...

Bills fans almost proudly see themselves as a singular example of NFL misery. After all, their team has missed the playoffs for 17 straight seasons, e...

Losses happen, but now it’s time to move to the next game. That’s the sentiment around the Bradford High football team after it lost, 21-7, at Ridgway...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. –Not many Bills fans would have bet that new coach Sean McDermott might be talking to his team about handling winning a quarter of ...

With Friday and Saturday’s football games, we’ve officially crossed into the second half of the Allegheny Mountain League. So the playoff picture shou...

Editor’s note –This is from a 2016 story by Wade Robertson. I sat on a rocky outcropping high above the dim and misty valley. The early morning Septem...

Today, local high school football is taking a back seat for a bit, as well it should. The passing of Jane Robertson recently deserves my offer of cond...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Are you already tired of the ongoing controversy over NFL players protesting police brutality and racial inequality in America du...

A football season isn’t very unlike school work. There’s studying, lots of practice and tests. Last Friday, Bradford High had its first test in the Al...

The streak is over. The streak, you ask? As I wrote in this space back in January, there’s a divide in our household over sporting events. No, it’s no...

After a strong start to my weekly NFL picks, it turns out I may not be too bad at this whole sports thing — if you’ll allow me to toot my own horn. It...

The Rhode Island Hospital entrance finally came into view. I hit the ambulance entrance, rushed inside and yelled; “I need help!” A male nurse read my...

Tonight the wheat is going to be separated from the chaff! That’s an old farmers saying. If you’re not a farmer, what that means is that the AML brain...

Native Americans were well versed in using pitfalls, snares, and deadfall traps. That knowledge was shared with the settlers of the early 1600s. Like ...