agriculture

Rep. Martin Causer (R-Turtlepoint) announced Thursday the McKean County Conservation District will receive $50,000 in funding from the state Departmen...

Bradford’s Main Street was a thriving mecca of fall activity during Pumpkin Fest Saturday, allowing visitors to enjoy a warm fall day, treats and acti...

EAST SMETHPORT — Reducing your financial risks was the topic of the speaker who addressed the more-than-50 attendees Tuesday at the fall annual meetin...

SMETHPORT — Since Pennsylvania has no statewide requirements for testing private water supplies, homeowners are urged to have their water tested by ac...

WASHINGTON — Congressman Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., a senior member of the House Agriculture Committee and former Chairman of the Subcommittee on Conserva...

SMETHPORT — McKean County Master Gardener class is now accepting applications for its 2019 class to begin Oct. 3 at the Penn State Extension Office in...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Selective browsing by white-tailed deer has been blamed by many for changing the character and composition of forest understories in...

The McKean County Fair Grounds is one of 15 finalists in Grinnell Mutual’s Fairground Facelift initiative. They were chosen from among 143 submissions...

KANE — In 2018, a field full of sunflowers located just a few miles east of Kane on U.S. Route 6 became the talk of the northeast; this year, a soggy ...

KANE — The Roach-Bauer Forestry Forum set for Oct. 3 will feature a state forester, who will speak about resources, public perceptions, impacts and tr...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency is expanding its payment options to now accept debit cards and Automated C...

HARRISBURG — The Wolf Administration has announced the availability of funding to help Chesapeake Bay Watershed communities reduce pollutants in local...

EAST SMETHPORT — The traditional tractor parade on Saturday is part of the McKean County Fair’s Food Pantry Day — a lead-in to the 114th fair, which o...

Beginning in April, Tony Frontino starts growing flower seeds at her home in Bradford with intentions of giving the young plants to residents at Bradf...

As creator of one of the most famous flames of all time, Zippo is intimately aware of fire’s usefulness — a force of nature to be summoned at will. Bu...

The last backyard conservation workshop of the summer series will be held at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 8 at Graham’s Greenhouse in Bradford, where participants w...

The Potter County Fair is a long tradition — 83 years — and there’s a good reason for it: it gives residents of the county a chance to share important...

LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP — Over the past couple of years, a little roadside shop called Tacks Inn Produce has provided a shopping experience for customers w...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — As volunteers watched, Ata Oz carefully and slowly scraped soil away from a precious piece of pottery that had been packed in its cla...

STRAWS : The straw in the 19th century was a cut and dried rye stalk. From there, it expanded to “artificial” varieties, which were made of paper cove...