News, Round the Square
Jan 13, 2023
FOR LUCK. Since today is Friday the 13th, some superstitious folk may be looking for a little bit of luck — The Farmers’ Almanac compiled a list for j...
News
Jan 25, 2022
UNIVERSITY PARK — A ground-nesting bee family — commonly known as miner bees — could play a heightened role in rebuilding black cherry populations in ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 05, 2022
Bradford’s Main Street pear trees are beautiful. They are delicate, with slim trunks and plentiful branches. Their flowers are a blizzard of snowflake...
News, Online Features
Dec 23, 2021
The beautiful but odoriferous Bradford pear trees along Boylston Street in the City of Bradford are an invasive species, and Pennsylvania is in the pr...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 13, 2021
The 2020 census reported the lowest rate of population growth in the U.S. since the post-Depression decade, inspiring a chorus of economic Cassandras ...
Local News, Online Features
Feb 23, 2021
The invasive spotted lanternfly has been found in Pennsylvania and 8 other northeastern states since its discovery in 2014. As of May 2020, there are ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jan 14, 2021
Over the course of this month and next, my travels will take me to a secluded hollow free from interruptions. A place to unwind some may say, yet whil...
Local News, Online Features
Sep 16, 2020
The chill in the air this morning is a reminder that the autumn season is nearing, and along with autumn comes apple season. Residents will soon be ab...
Bradford, News, Round the Square
Jul 07, 2020
GROWING STRING BEANS: For a beginning vegetable gardener, snap beans, aka string beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), can be one of the most rewarding vegetabl...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jun 11, 2020
Late spring and early summer provides the backdrop for food plot and tree maintenance. In many cases, annual wildlife food plots become the center of ...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
May 30, 2019
An old reverting field on our camp property supports a number of apple trees along with three pear trees. Come fall the pear trees are the first to dr...
Columns, Outdoors, Sports
Feb 28, 2019
It seemed simple enough; remove dead limbs and unnecessary growth from a once productive apple tree. By doing so, the tree would be able to direct its...
Local News, News, Online Features
Feb 27, 2019
(Editor’s note: This is the third in a week-long series of stories marking National Invasive Species Awareness week in conjunction with the McKean Cou...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Feb 21, 2019
Winter is upon us. For a while it was almost like the winter that wasn’t, but all that has changed in the last couple of weeks. Colder temperatures, f...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Feb 14, 2019
KANE — The Allegheny Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society spent an afternoon on a cold, but sunny, February 9th, learning the nuances of apple tree pr...
Local News, News
Feb 09, 2019
MARIENVILLE — Marienville District Ranger, Rob Fallon, has approved the Allegheny National Forest’s 10,555-acre Pine Bear Supplemental Environmental A...
News, Round the Square
Feb 22, 2018
PLANTING: “I can’t believe it,” Ormsby resident said Tuesday evening. “It must be an early spring.” He called with news about how his yard has changed...
News, Round the Square
Oct 25, 2017
FRUIT: The Bradford Marching Owls will start their annual sale of Florida citrus fruit today. Now through Nov. 13, people can order small or large box...
Round the Square
Mar 27, 2017
RESTING WATERS: With the impending closure of Camp Resting Waters — the Girl Scout camp in Kane — we wanted to hear if any of our readers have memorie...
Round the Square
Mar 18, 2017
APPLES: As this winter draws to a close — at least according to the calendar — Penn State University has predicted the impact the winter of 2016-17 wi...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
