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The wood stove was hot, a bright bed of coals glowing yellow, orange and red while lazy flames flickered upward. The heat was so welcome; now the summ...

Bradford Forest has changed its name to Danzer Lumber North America, effective Jan. 1. The newly named Danzer Lumber North America operates two produc...

My brother, Gary Robertson, and I were excited. Uncle Chuck was in from New York City and since he’d grown up in Bradford, living in the Big Apple wit...

Alberta Clipper, Arctic Vortex, or Arctic Clipper: regardless of what you call them, weather conditions identified as those delivering brutally cold w...

Wow, New Years is here. It’s 2018 and how 2017 snuck by so quickly still has me scratching my noggin. How is it that the brain slows down as time acce...

TREE TRIMMING: Duke Center author Bill Robertson shared this funny anecdote about his childhood Christmases. “Trimming the Tree” “My sister and I had ...

The brightening Eastern sky was a crystal clear, frozen grey, the air keen as a knife and just as sharp, cutting shrewdly, darting through any open zi...

RED HOUSE, N.Y. — Two new playgrounds will be built in Allegany State Park as part of a $2.6 million commitment for 12 new or improved playgrounds at ...

We can’t all shoot bucks the first day or the first week. That’s just the way things are. But rest assured, there are lots of bucks out there and many...

SMETHPORT — It was a cold, damp morning last week when Donald “Corky” Hull jumped out of his full-size pickup truck and took a brisk walk up the hill ...

The Bradford Landmark Society will host its sixth annual Christmas wreath making classes again this holiday season. Participants will be able to make ...

SPRUCE GOOSE: Today is the 70th anniversary of the first and only flight of Howard Hughes’s prototype for a huge wooden flying boat. The H-4 Hercules,...

The darkness slowly melted away, the trees grew solid, then the larger branches became visible and finally the smaller. The skyline glow became strong...

It’s common for interesting finds to be made while construction is ongoing, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found something rather uncommon durin...

The Board of Directors of the Elk County Community Foundation has announced that Elkwood Arts, a program of Dickinson Center Inc., was awarded grant f...

KANE — The impact of the spotted wing drosophila fruit fly, an invasive insect from Southeast Asia, on soft fruits, shrubs and tree fruit crops and th...

MARIENVILLE — The Allegheny National Forest will soon be salvaging some of the trees within the Kane Experimental Forest that were damaged during a Ma...

OLEAN, N.Y. — For the first time in a decade, the annual Rock City Park Gem-Mineral-Fossil Show will be scaled back to a two-day event, running Saturd...

The Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service is proposing to conduct a small wood demonstration/ research project on the Kane experimental...

Sampling last week showed harmful blue-green algae blooms in the Allegheny Reservoir on the New York side, and some in Willow Bay. Biologist Rose Rile...