Lifestyles
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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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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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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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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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...
News, Round the Square
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...
Lifestyles, Local News, News
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...
News, Round the Square
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...
Local News, News
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...
Lifestyles
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...
News, Round the Square
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 ...
News, Round the Square
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...
Lifestyles, Local News, News
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...
Local News, News
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 ...
Lifestyles, Local News, News
Jan 03, 2025
The amount of daylight is slowly getting longer. My African violets are all in bloom, my rabbit’s foot fern has put up a new frond and my paperwhites ...
Lifestyles
Dec 26, 2024
A nice little project for the days and weeks after the holidays is planting paperwhite bulbs. Planting these lovely flowers is good for those quiet da...
Lifestyles
Nov 29, 2024
The amaryllis is one of our most beautiful holiday plants. If you are new to growing amaryllis the easiest way to get started is to purchase one of th...
Lifestyles
Nov 13, 2024
The geranium has always been one of the most popular annuals in our garden. It is the anchor of our containers, the dependable thriller, that holds th...
Lifestyles
Nov 05, 2024
One of the most important tools in gardening is the garden journal. Some questions to consider are what to write, how do I start, and what kind of jou...
Lifestyles
Oct 30, 2024
Our dahlias are now the main event of late summer. While the gardener is tending to the perennial border and grooming what is left in our containers, ...
Local Sports, Soccer, Sports, ...
December 26, 2025
Eagles standout garners Big 30 boys POY honors The standards, and the culture, of Fillmore soccer have made it an attainable goal for aspiring young E...
Local Sports, Soccer, Sports
December 26, 2025
One has assembled perhaps the greatest career resume in local high school soccer coaching history. Dale MacArthur, in 38 years at Allegany-Limestone (...
Local Sports, Soccer, Sports, ...
December 26, 2025
Four-time Big 30 all-star named 2025 girls POY Portville didn’t just move up a league last fall. It stepped into a different world. After years of com...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion, Outdoors, ...
December 26, 2025
For some reason decreed in the cosmos, many of my closest and most beloved relations have passed away just months short of Christmas. The departure of...
Lifestyles
December 26, 2025
Dear Heloise: I have a couple of hints to suggest for your column: — I rubber band my accesible parking placard to my sun visor so that when I park in...
