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Historic Downtown Bradford has been prepped for the summer. Hanging baskets adorn Main Street and Boylston streets, and flower barrels line Main Stree...

SMETHPORT (EC) — Rotary International President Ian Riseley challenged each club to make a difference by planting a tree for each one its members with...

SMETHPORT — Two free conservation workshops are set for June 7 — an invasive plant workshop and a backyard conservation. The invasive plant workshop, ...

As it turns out this year’s long, miserable winter may not have caused its last devastating blow to the McKean County area, and the Northeastern state...

HABITATS: It was about a decade ago that volunteers worked with Collins Pine Co. to create a forest habitat for the woodcock on company property. The ...

DELAWARE, Ohio — There are 308 million ash trees in the forests of Pennsylvania, and one gleaming invasive insect poses a threat to all of them. On th...

The sky lightened, the temperature a chilly 39 degrees, unheard of in Missouri the third week of April. But this was a cold, late spring indeed. The c...

Bill Jarrett, Seth Kibble, Penn State Master Gardener coordinator and instructor Richard Putnam, Steve Ridell, Gail Ridell and Debbie Babcox were amon...

The pear trees along Boylston Street are in bloom now. The sunshine will continue into today, with the forecast calling for partly sunny skies and a h...

Jonah McKeirnan, a first grader at the Smethport Area Elementary School, proudly shows the Eastern Hemlock seedling that he received during the "My Gr...

Daffodils bloom in the sunshine Sunday afternoon near Eldred. Warmer temperatures are in the forecast for the next week.

The McKean County Conservation District celebrated Arbor Day by presenting the “My Growing Tree” program to students at the George G. Blaisdell Elemen...

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi, poet, 13th century “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning, poet, 19th cent...

MARIENVILLE — The Allegheny National Forest will be treating glossy and common buckthorn in late April to mid-June (weather permitting) to reduce the ...

The warmer temperatures are helping trees to start to bud their leaves. Spring may have finally arrived, bringing with it the April showers that bring...

LEEKS: The leeks are ready. Andy Heffner of Ormsby called Thursday afternoon to report that he went out a few days before on Friday night and got leek...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County master gardeners will be hosting a mushroom workshop on May 5. The event will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Donald J....

The Kane Hardwood dimension mill will be shuttered later this month and five workers will be laid off. Kane Hardwood General Manager Richard Engebrets...

WOODCHUCK: Andy Heffner of Ormsby called to tell us he recently saw the “weirdest thing I’ve seen in my life.” Andy looked out his window to see a fur...

From left, Master Gardener Mike Bernard, John Krinner and Master Gardener Richard Putnam were among those who participated in an apple tree grafting w...