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FIRST ONE?: Rena Ward of Colegrove spotted a robin last Tuesday during our marvelous January thaw. Was it the last one to leave for winter or the firs...

MORE STORES: More store stories today: Kathy Paterniti of Coraopolis, writes: "I'd like to add The Johnston Store and the Princess Shoppe, which was T...

STORE STORY: Imagine a teen-ager today going through this "ordeal." Jim Randolph of Bradford tells us he worked in the 1940s at a fish market located ...

LOCAL ANGLE: Viewers of CNN in the pre-election coverage in New Hampshire may have caught a local angle in recent days. Terry Montecalvo Dynborski hos...

SNIPE HUNT: Do snipes really exist? Apparently so. We had mentioned recently that Bigfoot hunters had banged together two sticks to lure the creatures...

BOB ROGGE: A couple weeks ago The Era ran an obituary that might have given readers pause, since it was decorated with two flags: American and Canadia...

PORT ALLEGHANY: "Just wondered if anyone has commented on the new sign posted by the new bridge just completed in Smethport. The sign reads, 'Port All...

THE LIGHTS: Another reader vouches for those strange lights in the sky. Lois Baker of Roulette writes, "I also saw the lights in the sky on Dec. 12. I...

PET TIME: Attention, per lovers! Do you think your dog or cat is extra special? If so, be sure to enter it in the second annual Newspapers In Educatio...

MORE SHOPS: Our recent column about old stores in Bradford obviously hit a nerve. Feedback, feedback, and more feedback: Lynda Lore of Hampton, Va., w...

THOSE LIGHTS: We told you yesterday of one possibility for the "strange lights" observed over the skies in McKean County in the middle of December. Mo...

NEW YEAR: OK, so what were those lights we told you about Christmas Eve? A Duke Center woman had written to us about "lights in the sky" on Dec. 12 wh...

WAIST ISSUE: Today is your last opportunity to pig out before those dreaded New Year's resolutions. No doubt, the primary resolution for most American...

CHRISTMAS SONGS: Is it the ballad in which the singer longs for a Christmas where "the tree tops glisten"? Or the song about the reindeer who used his...

SMALL WORLD: Imagine a Bradford get-together halfway around the globe. Here's the story from the Rev. Richard Pytcher. It was on May 8, 1954, when he ...

HI AGAIN: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? If so, we hope you missed us yesterday. To give our entire staff a day off, we take holidays onl...

SPECIAL DAY: What do we really want for Christmas? We want all our Round the Square readers to be even more prolific, generous, vocal, varied, smart, ...

SANTA?: "What were the lights in the sky last night, Dec. 12, at about 5:45 p.m.? We were in the barn, looked out and saw what we first thought were l...

This is RTS for Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007 IT'S TODAY: Snow and cold weather are bad enough. The most annoying part of winter, however, is when it gets d...

SOME SIGHT: "Last Friday afternoon, I was at my camp on the St. Marys/Johnsonburg road. A flock of about 50 geese flew over, heading south. The sun wa...