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    Home gardening

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    Tried and true blooms
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    Tried and true blooms
    By REBECCA NORTON RYAN  Penn State Extension Master Gardener  
    Jun 13, 2025
    New gardeners often ask about easy perennials for their new gardens. My favorite easy perennial is the daylily. It has almost no pest problems, dies b...
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    Getting that garden summer ready
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    Getting that garden summer ready
    REBECCA NORTON RYAN Penn State Extension Master Gardener 
    May 06, 2025
    Now that temperatures are consistently in the 60-degree range it is finally time to weed, edge and mulch our perennial borders and foundation shrubs. ...
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    The versatile and hardy forsythia
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    The versatile and hardy forsythia
    REBECCA NORTON RYAN Penn State Extension Master Gardener 
    Apr 25, 2025
    I always look for my forsythia bush to be some of the first flowers of spring. Blooming during Eastertide caused the shrub to be known as the Easter T...
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    Grow your own using seed libraries
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    Grow your own using seed libraries
    Savannah Barr savannah.m.barr@gmail.com 
    Apr 22, 2025
    Today is Earth Day. Interested in planting a garden or supporting pollinators this year? Two local libraries have just what you need to get started. W...
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    The garden’s unsung hero
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    The garden’s unsung hero
    REBECCA NORTON RYAN Penn State Extension Master Gardener 
    Apr 17, 2025
    The long-range weather forecast gives us hope that May will be the spring weather for which we have all been waiting. Our spring bulbs are blooming, t...
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    ‘Round the Square: The mayflowers are back
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    ‘Round the Square: The mayflowers are back
    Apr 16, 2025
    MAYFLOWERS: Joe Cucuzza called us from Lewis Run to tell us the mayflowers are blooming behind the old Valley Hunt Club. His family has an annual trad...
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    Don’t start that garden cleanup just yet
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    Don’t start that garden cleanup just yet
    REBECCA NORTON RYAN Penn State Extension Master Gardener 
    Apr 08, 2025
    In McKean County, spring weather is always a rollercoaster. Sunshine and 70 degrees one day and 30 degrees and snow squalls the next. After a long har...
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    ‘Round the Square: March and renewal, part 1 of 2
    News, Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square: March and renewal, part 1 of 2
    Mar 26, 2025
    MARCH: March is filled with symbols that remind us of renewals. “The cheerful bloom, the daffodil, symbolizes new beginnings and hope, while the aquam...
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    Snowdrops herald renewal
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    Snowdrops herald renewal
    REBECCA NORTON RYAN Penn State Extension Master Gardener 
    Mar 25, 2025
    At our house no flower is more welcome than the early spring snowdrop. They are the first flower to appear in my garden often pushing their way up thr...
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    Bookworm
    Lifestyles
    Bookworm
    ?Black Girls Gardening: Empowering Stories and Garden Wisdom for Healing and Flourishing in Nature? by Amber Grossman c.2025, Chronicle Books $26.95 240 pages 
    Mar 24, 2025
    In a way, it’s kind of a little miracle. You place tiny little seeds in dirt – DIRT! – and you keep it damp. Wait a week or so, and something grows. W...
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    ‘Round the Square: Spring is here!
    News, Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square: Spring is here!
    Mar 20, 2025
    SPRING: Spring is here! The snow and ice are disappearing, and soon the beautiful colors of nature will be everywhere. Sure, by about September we’ll ...
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    ‘Round the Square: Frogs will look through ice, twice
    News, Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square: Frogs will look through ice, twice
    Mar 19, 2025
    YELLOW: When you think about harbingers of spring, does the lovely yellow forsythia bush make your list? It does for the Farmers Almanac.”Forsythia ar...
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    Lenten rose among earliest bloomers
    Lifestyles, Local News, News
    Lenten rose among earliest bloomers
    REBECCA NORTON RYAN Penn State Extension Gardener 
    Mar 13, 2025
    I have always been curious about plants called the Christmas rose and another called the Lenten rose. They are herbaceous (die back to the soil and re...
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    Webinar on soil fertility, garden layout
    Local News, News
    Webinar on soil fertility, garden layout
    Mar 04, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — For those deciding where to start their garden or orchard, Penn State Extension is offering a webinar, “Living on a Few Acres: Soil ...
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    BRMC, OGH donate 500 backpacks to local students
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    BRMC, OGH donate 500 backpacks to local students
    August 26, 2025
    For the 15th year, employees of Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) and Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital (OGH), Kaleida Health facilities, packed 500...
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    State police list reward in missing persons case for Auteri
    Local News
    State police list reward in missing persons case for Auteri
    August 26, 2025
    State police are renewing calls for the public's help in the case of Michael Joseph Auteri, missing from Lewis Run since April 25, 2000. The Facebook ...
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    United Way’s pig roast kicks off campaign
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    United Way’s pig roast kicks off campaign
    Organization turns 100 this year
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    August 26, 2025
    It will be a night of great food and open hearts Thursday, during the United Way of the Bradford Area’s 27th Annual Pig Roast and Clam Bake. Held each...
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    Commissioners urge state budget action
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    Commissioners urge state budget action
    Sara Furlong 
    August 26, 2025
    SMETHPORT — McKean County commissioners urged state lawmakers to finalize a spending plan without further delay, during their regular meeting Tuesday ...
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    Congresswoman denied access to ICE detention center at Moshannon
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    Congresswoman denied access to ICE detention center at Moshannon
    By IVEY DeJESUS pennlive.com 
    August 26, 2025
    (TNS) — U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a Pittsburgh-area Democrat, on Monday became the latest congressional Democrat denied entry at a federal immigration det...
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    Sinnemahoning a Recovery in Nature site
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    Sinnemahoning a Recovery in Nature site
    August 26, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Sinnemahoning State Park in Austin is among nine Recovery in Nature sites across the commonwealth’s state parks. For the second year, Pen...
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