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IN BLOOM: We bet you didn’t guess the topic of the first day of Autumn column would be Easter lilies. Specifically, the Easter lilies that are bloomin...

FOLIAGE: Penn State University is reporting predictions of a “banner year” for fall foliage in Pennsylvania. “The rainy summer in Pennsylvania has set...

The annual Kinzua Bridge Fall Festival is slated to be held Saturday and Sunday. This will be the festival's 20th year. Park manager Mitch Stickle, wi...

SMETHPORT — In a unanimous vote Tuesday, Smethport Borough Council approved a request from the McKean County Historical Society to reserve Hamlin Lake...

KANE — This year’s Roach Bauer Forestry Forum is scheduled for Oct. 5 at the Kane Country Club. Reservations are required, and those received on or be...

I was a teenager then -- is that possible? Have the years flown by so quickly, that those days seem more of a story I have read than the actual occurr...

The last few evenings have been pretty chilly. I’m noticing large flocks of black birds and other species filling the skies and their graceful, sinuou...

CRITTERS: Andy Heffner of Ormsby called with questions about critters he’s seeing — or not seeing — in his yard this year. First, he wondered what the...

In regard to the Harten family letter of Aug. 3 on the Willow Dale Cemetery policy of removing items left at graves, our daughters’ graves were stripp...

SMETHPORT — For the past 20 years or so, the biodynamic gardeners of Evergreen Elm have taken home ribbons from the McKean County Fair for vegetables ...

PURCELLVILLE, Va. — Whitney Hope Harvey and Greggory Joseph Housler were united in marriage in a double-ring ceremony May 26 at Breaux Vineyards in Pu...

A great family goal for 2017 is teaching your family how to build a fire. Fire truly separates us from the beasts and is indispensable for so much of ...

At one far reach of Crook Farm, the clanking sounds of horseshoes hitting stakes, hammers tapping on tables and women laughing were heard early Saturd...

The understory of a forest has a pleasing aroma that changes from one season to the next. Early in the year, the fragrance of damp earth later is trad...

GET OUTSIDE: We were very glad a reader passed this along. “Went fishing and found this at Willow Bay,” our reader wrote. “Actually there were several...

The best way to describe the first vision of Dan and Sandy O’Brien’s backyard is to compare it to Dorothy opening the door in the black and white scen...

LIMESTONE, N.Y. — The rain held off, the food was great and the dancing was the best during Evergreen Elm’s annual picnic Wednesday at Mystic Water Re...

Hazy, hot and humid. Just 10 weeks back, things were different. For the most part the trees had some time to go before their leaves would shade the gr...

TIDBITS: Andy Heffner of Ormsby called to talk about fireflies and springs. Last week he let his little dogs out in the yard, and they started to make...

SOME TALES: Potter County is home to some oddities, and we’d like to share some with you. Here’s one about a giant skeleton. In December 1886, W.H. Sc...