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PA’s oldest Hemlock: Reading the Pennsylvania magazine for November/December 2019, an interesting fact for McKean County popped up in the Mailbox sect...

Well, Christmas is over. Soon it’s going to be 2020 and despite past dire predictions from science fiction writers and movie producers we’re still han...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The state Department of Agriculture hit a milestone the first week of December: It handed out more than 1 million spotted lanternfly...

NORWICH TOWNSHIP — The McKean County Master Gardeners have completed some activities at the Donald J. Comes Natural Resources Learning Center on Route...

SMETHPORT — The Master Gardeners of McKean County have launched a new garden hotline which will help county residents get the answers they need on a v...

How many people watched the impeachment hearing? I watched on and off. As smart as Donald Trump is, do you honestly think he would do what the left sa...

ELLICOTTVILLE, N.Y. — Black Friday deals, snow on the ground, decorations and returning college students are general signs the Holiday Season is start...

During the Christmas season, anyone who ventures through Kane’s Evergreen Park in the evening will have a special treat: nearly 30,000 blue and white ...

The fragrance of fresh-cut pine filled the air of the Crook Farm bank building Wednesday as board members and volunteers with Bradford Landmark Societ...

Frances Sherman VFW Auxiliary, has their ‘Veterans Kindness Tree’ lit and ready with tags again this year! Local nursing homes have provided a list of...

It wasn’t yet daylight when I turned onto the side road where I’d hunted squirrels in the past. Locating squirrels is always an unpredictable proposit...

This hunting season I will be going from one place to another in hopes of locating turkeys in between. That’s how my fall turkey hunting will begin on...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — What started out with the creation of eight holiday wreaths by a few volunteers to benefit Pfeiffer Nature Center has grown into 300...

UNIVERSITY PARK — A $7.3 million grant awarded to Penn State will support an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers as they conduc...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Identifying potential spotted lanternfly stomping grounds beyond Pennsylvania’s current 14-county quarantine zone is the focus of a ...

The leaves are starting to change, so what can the region expect for fall foliage this year? “It seems like we’ve been ushering in a pretty typical fa...

UNIVERSITY PARK — “Lingering ash.” That’s what the U.S. Forest Service calls the relatively few green and white ash trees that survive the emerald ash...

PALINDROME : Sept. 10, 2019, or 09/10/2019 began a phenomenon known as Palindrome week. Technically, the period lasts for 10 days, and during that tim...

The buzz about honey bees is that their population is still in danger. Recent data from the Bee Informed Partnership shows honey bee populations conti...

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...