Breaking News, Local News
December 26, 2025
Due to the severity of Friday's winter storm, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is temporarily prohibiting trucks heavier than 1...
Local News, News
Feb 27, 2018
In this area one has probably seen many of the non-native invasive plants that have gotten out of control and taken over the landscape — Japanese knot...
Local News, News
Feb 26, 2018
With spring coming around the corner, many gardeners are beginning to think about the season ahead. For Bob Rusiewski, from the North Central Pennsylv...
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...
Local News, News, Round the Square
Feb 06, 2018
GARDEN: Look out the window. In just a couple short months that snow will be melting and those bare trees will begin showing signs of new life. An art...
Local News, News, Online Features
Aug 16, 2017
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 ...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Jul 27, 2017
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...
Local News, News, Online Features
Jul 24, 2017
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...
Local News, News, Online Features
Jun 16, 2017
For the past several years, motorists on U.S. Route 219 in Bradford have been spoiled by the sight of a colorful roadside garden containing roses, ger...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
May 12, 2017
SMETHPORT — The Penn State Extension Master Gardeners will hold a plant sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 20 at the Penn State Extension Office, 17129 U....
Local News, News
Apr 12, 2017
The Main Street Cleanup day has been scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon April 22, with registration to be held at Veterans’ Square. Volunteers, either indi...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Mar 28, 2017
PORT ALLEGANY — The Port Allegany Rotary Club is currently selling Easter flowers to raise funds for the Port Allegany Community Pool. The sale, an an...
Round the Square
Mar 06, 2017
TOMATOES: We recently shared gardening tips from fellow master gardener Donald Comes of Smethport. He’s since passed along a couple of gardening-relat...
Local News, News
Mar 03, 2017
Mention the word bonsai and some people may conjure up an image from the “Karate Kid” movie when Mr. Miyagi teaches a teenager named Daniel how to pru...
Local News, News, Online Features
Mar 02, 2017
(Editor’s note: This week, Feb. 27-March 3, marks National Invasive Species Awareness Week. As part of an effort to alert and educate the public on in...
News, Round the Square
Feb 28, 2017
PLANTING: After reading Friday’s column, Bob Rusiewski of St. Marys updated us on how some of his vegetables grew in 2016 and shared a little of his v...
News, Round the Square
Feb 24, 2017
GARDENS: We reached out to Donald J. Comes, a horticultural botanist gardener from Smethport, to see what gardening he recommends people do — and not ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Feb 21, 2017
A warm spell that started this past weekend is bringing gardeners and other outdoor enthusiasts out from their winter hibernation. The warm stretch is...
News, Round the Square
Jan 31, 2017
ROBIN: Rich Colosimo sent us this photo of a robin he saw in Bradford on Sunday. Rich tells us, “This little fellow was seen in the 900 block of High ...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Jul 06, 2015
PARIS (AP) — Celebrities such as Lupita Nyong'o and Emily Blunt sparkled in the heat at Christian Dior's vivid couture show set in a timeless conserva...
Local News
At First Night Bradford
December 26, 2025
ANTLERS VS. HORNS TALK will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Elk Country Visitors Center, 134 Homestead Drive in Benezette. It’s sure to be...
Local News
December 26, 2025
Inmates, family members and nonprofit advocacy organizations have alleged prolonged and ongoing lockdowns, inadequate medical care and staff misconduc...
Lifestyle, Lifestyles, Local News, ...
December 26, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: Should I take my Social Security now at age 62, or wait till I am 65? I've been collecting SS disability due to health issues and was curi...
Crime, Local News
December 26, 2025
SMETHPORT — While the trial for alleged killer Thomas McElhattan was set to begin in late June of next year, McKean County's top prosecutor has asked ...
Local News
December 26, 2025
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — The Continuing Education Association of New York named SUNY Jamestown Community College student Jerica Barnard the Region West recip...
Lifestyles
December 26, 2025
Over the past 40 years, the smart move was not to bet against James Cameron. From surprise indie sci-fi hit “The Terminator” to blockbuster sci-fi/act...
