Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Nov 20, 2019
Early on, I discovered that the primary way to see game in the woods is to detect movement. The twitch of a squirrel’s tail or the flick of a deer’s e...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Nov 12, 2019
Gary Clark lives in Emporium. Whenever I look at those narrow valleys and very steep, tall, hillsides I always shudder. I’d hate to climb those sharpl...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Nov 08, 2019
In my early teenage years, I’d already realized that I was hopelessly hooked on outdoor sports. I studied all the Outdoor Life and Sports Afield magaz...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Aug 15, 2019
The view from one of my favorite vistas offered the same scenery, but something was different. While the leaves on the trees have yet to exhibit brill...
Columns, Football, Outdoors
Jan 17, 2019
I t’s often referred to as finding a needle in a haystack. After all, locating shed antlers here in Pennsylvania was once considered a rarity. However...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Dec 29, 2018
I burst through the door in a cloud of icy air, swirling snowflakes and extreme excitement. My face was flushed bright, beet red from the 15 degree te...
Outdoors, Sports
Dec 15, 2018
This has certainly been an interesting year, especially if you’re an outdoors person and attuned to the peculiarities of this area’s weather. Unusual ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Dec 13, 2018
The opening of Pennsylvania’s rifle season had been filled with surprises. A rain filled opening day, then temperature swings that facilitated snow co...
Local Sports, Outdoors
Dec 08, 2018
When Vince Quillman retired he wanted out of the city, away from the noise and bustle of metropolitan areas. After discovering Smethport he fell in lo...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Nov 29, 2018
The end of the first week of the rifle deer season brought with it mixed results. Weather conditions always play a hand in how we greet the day. And w...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Nov 24, 2018
The hunter had been sitting in the tree stand since daylight and hadn’t seen a deer. It was almost 1 p.m. now and cold, hunger and discouragement was ...
Columns, Football, High School, ...
Nov 17, 2018
It’s a long drive to Osage Beach, Missouri, 16 to 17 hours in fact with good weather and minimum traffic problems. So it wasn’t surprising that Jim Zi...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Nov 15, 2018
Hunters have definite opinions about a lot of things, from the best rifle and caliber and everything else, right down to winter underwear. But come th...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Oct 13, 2018
I met a nice gentleman the other day and we began talking about deer and deer hunting, especially bucks and how cagey they can become. He told me an i...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Oct 05, 2018
The fall season is now upon us. It’s hard to believe that summer is over for another year. It seems like just yesterday I was getting ready for all th...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Sep 29, 2018
It’s the second week of archery season: daylight’s fading and you can’t help thinking of dinner. You turn and look behind you one more time. Incredibl...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Sep 08, 2018
Everyone at camp was excited: the first day of deer season was upon us. I hadn’t bagged a deer yet and, being young and excitable, had missed some gol...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Aug 16, 2018
Right now what you see is what you’ll get when it comes to deer in general and bucks in particular. Since mid-May the bucks have been developing antle...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Dec 09, 2017
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...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Dec 06, 2017
Think about it. At a time when we want to spend as much time afield hunting as possible, the hours of daylight become shorter with each passing day. R...
Local News
June 16, 2025
Bradford Community Pride Lions Club announced the winners of its fifth annual Kids Fishing Derby held Saturday at Marilla Reservoir. Winners included...
Local News
June 16, 2025
VFW Post 212 and Frances Sherman VFW Auxiliary announced its 2025 Reba Y. Maben & William “Mr. Bill” Runyan Scholarship winners are Evan D. Confer and...
Local News
Suicide prevention training aimed at saving lives
Continuing education credits available
June 16, 2025
EMPORIUM —A Penn State Extension in-person workshop will provide evidence-based training aimed at saving lives and reducing suicidal behaviors. The wo...
Business, Nation & World, PA State News
June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Sens. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and John Fetterman, D-Pa., introduced S. 2044, which would move the Department of Energy’s Offi...
Business, Local News, Nation & World, ...
June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump will attend Sen. Dave McCormick’s inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon Univer...
Crime, PA State News
June 16, 2025
HARRISBURG – Sen. Scott Hutchinson,R-21, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and prime sponsor of Senate Bill 719, announced the successful passa...
