Columns, Outdoors
Nov 21, 2024
Sydney Shaw was born into a hunting family. Her sister took to the sport early on, but Sydney had other interests and wasn’t all that enthusiastic abo...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jun 02, 2022
I was soundly asleep and instantly irritated at some level in my subconscious when, for an unknown reason, my eyes opened. My body was perfectly relax...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
May 26, 2022
Occasionally, you run into a gobbler too smart to fool. Scott Neely and I hunted one of these for three years. We nicknamed the big gobbler ‘The Tank....
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
May 19, 2022
Anyone who’s read my articles on spring gobbler hunting knows how often I mention the fact it is a sport fraught with perils. Here, Murphy’s Law rules...
Local Sports, Outdoors
Apr 21, 2022
Timing alone would make it special. Pennsylvania’s upcoming spring gobbler season – the state’s only big-game hunt outside of fall and winter – takes ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Oct 21, 2021
Last hunting season found me pursuing my favorite game bird, the wild turkey. I’d seen a flock hunting squirrels and knew where they should be. Well, ...
News, Round the Square
Jul 15, 2021
BOBBER GOBBLERS: Lesli Barnett and Dave Saidoo are two kayakers with a passion for bobber gobbling. What is bobber gobbling? Bobber gobbling is the ac...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
May 27, 2021
Opposition in all things is necessary for growth. As the prophet Lehi taught his son, “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
May 06, 2021
After having spent a week hunting spring gobblers in Ohio with my buddy Jim Acker, I was apprehensive about our Pennsylvania season. When you never he...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 29, 2021
The fishing was quite good this year, the weather fairly cooperative and my early mornings were spent in pursuit of the wily trout. On occasion as I s...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 22, 2021
Beautiful bands of pink and gold streaked the eastern sky — the hills still black bulwarks against the coming dawn. As I waited a few minutes, several...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
May 27, 2020
Well, the COVID-19 virus has really put a hurting on this country and changed how the world operates in every segment of our society. It has also thro...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
May 16, 2020
After five days of hunting spring gobblers, I was beginning to feel the wear and tear. I’m pushing a wheelbarrow full of years, more decades than I ca...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
May 14, 2020
By this time in the season, turkey hunters have begun to form opinions as to how the season is going. For those who have filled their tag(s), the seas...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
May 11, 2020
Big old gobblers, their unpredictability, razor sharp eyesight, great hearing and absolute lack of curiosity can drive the best turkey hunters absolut...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
May 06, 2020
As I have mentioned in earlier articles, people with obsessions — those who literally eat, drink and sleep their passions — are fascinating studies. W...
Columns, Outdoors, Sports
May 02, 2020
It’s spring gobbler season once again. Good grief. It’s a fact that few spring turkey hunters make it through the entire season without missing many m...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 30, 2020
Did you get your bird? How many times will that question be asked over the course of spring gobbler season? It's hard to tell. Just asking that questi...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 23, 2020
Over the last few decades, hunting spring gobblers has changed. Gone are the days when 12-gauge high brass loads were the only rounds you could use, b...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Jan 30, 2020
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners this week gave preliminary approval to hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits for the 2...
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...
