Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Dec 06, 2017
Think about it. At a time when we want to spend as much time afield hunting as possible, the hours of daylight become shorter with each passing day. R...
Local News, News, Online Features
Dec 01, 2017
An official with Elkland Search & Rescue reported Thursday that the organization has been busy this week conducting two extended search and rescue eff...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Nov 30, 2017
For the most part it begins a day or two prior to buck season. Hunters are making their way to areas they intend to hunt over the course of the first ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Nov 25, 2017
Starting Monday, Pennsylvania hunters will take to the woods in the hopes of bagging a deer. Rifle deer season will last through Dec. 9 in Pennsylvani...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Nov 23, 2017
Hunters during the third day of Pennsylvania’s statewide bear season harvested 318 bears, raising the three-day total to 1,628 – about a 30 percent de...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Nov 22, 2017
Hunting and safety go hand in hand. For decades firearm-related accidents have been declining. And that’s good news. However, a disturbing trend has b...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Nov 08, 2017
Are you willing to hunt on a mix of public and privately owned lands with a good chance of taking a nice buck? If so, there is a 74,000-acre tract of ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Nov 02, 2017
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was first detected in 1967 in a captive mule deer research facility in Colorado. Since then the problem has been growing...
Columns, Outdoors
Oct 21, 2017
The darkness slowly melted away, the trees grew solid, then the larger branches became visible and finally the smaller. The skyline glow became strong...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Oct 12, 2017
Fall is a season of change. This year things have been a bit different. The lack of rainfall across the northern tier has affected streams and leaf co...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Jun 15, 2017
It was a fun and sometimes frustrating spring gobbler season. On days where you’d expect the birds to sound off, they remained silent. Other times the...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
May 27, 2017
It’s been a long hard and difficult season for the great majority of the long suffering gobbler hunters. Perhaps a sweeping epidemic of extreme laryng...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 28, 2017
Man, can you believe spring gobbler is upon us once again? It seems to take forever for trout season to finally roll around and break winter’s deadloc...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 07, 2017
The other day I glanced around my den. I was immediately struck by the “stuff” I have accumulated and this started a train of thought. Being a war stu...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 14, 2017
WASHINGTON -- In its zeal to repeal, the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to overturn a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule forbidding the...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
Mar 10, 2017
As a hunter and sportsman I love the animals I hunt. I’ve found that many cannot understand how you can love animals, yet still hunt them. I completel...
News, Round the Square
Mar 03, 2017
BEARS: The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently announced that the 2016 bear harvest in Pennsylvania was one of the most prolific seasons of all time...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Feb 10, 2017
Riflemen are hunters who can make that difficult shot and take pride in doing so. They are not helpless, weak, misinformed or particularly trusting of...
Local News, News
Jan 14, 2017
ST. MARYS — It was definitely an interesting year for the Elkland Search and Rescue of St. Marys. In a report released Friday, officials shared that l...
Columns, Outdoors, Sports
Dec 16, 2016
The human being is a varied and unpredictable creature. Some avoid risk at all costs while others tie large rubber bands to their legs and leap off br...
Lifestyles
August 3, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I recently reconnected with a woman I dated briefly in the 1980s and haven't seen since. She's around my age. We both were married one year...
PA State News
August 2, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Making wine is a complex endeavor — it depends on grape composition, microbes like yeast, and environmental conditions such as tempe...
Business, Nation & World, PA State News
August 2, 2025
(TNS) — If there was any takeaway from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s first public meeting on the restart of the nuclear power station at Three M...
Lifestyles, Local News, Local Sports, ...
August 2, 2025
Mast crops are spotty this year, except for acorns. Soft mast, like apples and wild cherries, seems to be minimal to none in most areas. Soft mast blo...
Round the Square
August 2, 2025
EXCITED: It's August — are you getting excited for the fabulous events in McKean County during this back-to-school month? It's Festa Italiana in Bradf...
Lifestyles
August 2, 2025
Dear Heloise: When hanging up pictures, it is best to drill a pilot hole into the plaster for the nail before hammering it in. If one does not drill a...
