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BIG CATS: We used to put the existence of mountain lions on a par with Big Foot, little green men, or the Abominable Snowman. No more. Way too many pe...

WILD ONES: Darlene Mosley has been calling this "The Summer of Animals." Darlene, who has three horses in a pasture along Route 770 not far from Marsh...

LOCAL LORE: For fans of the Discovery Channel's show "Myth Busters," the Bradford Landmark Society had a treat in its July newsletter - a list of Brad...

BIG CATS: We used to put the existence of mountain lions on a par with Big Foot, little green men, or the Abominable Snowman. No more. Way too many pe...

TALL POLES: Once you start noticing those tall telephone poles, it seems like they're everywhere. A few weeks ago, a reader pointed out one of these e...

COKE NOTES: A couple comments today add to our ongoing saga of the Coke plant in Bradford: Frances Cercone Evans of Marietta, Ga., tells us her husban...

SNAKE UPDATE: "Please reassure your readers that the streets of Emporium are not being overrun by rattlesnakes." So writes Phil Jones of Emporium. We ...

MOVIE PLAN: A movie proposed about the Prohibition days that sparked warfare in Bradford and Olean, N.Y., and left bodies on both sides of the line is...

GOING BACK: We're constantly amazed at how mention of a simple item can trigger an avalanche of memories. Liz Fleming Duggan of Omaha, Neb., dropped u...

MORE RABIES: Previously, we "outed" raccoons as the Pennsylvania animal most likely to carry rabies. Today, we look at some other animals on that list...

IT'S TODAY: It was 75 years ago that an "old lump of coal" arrived on the scene in Bradford. Today, of course, we know that "diamond" as Zippo. As we ...

COKE PLANT: We thought it was an open-and-shut case as to where that Coca-Cola bottling plant was located in Bradford - on East Main Street near the C...

BIG CAT: It's been awhile since anyone has reported seeing a mountain lion but we have one today. Lori Charnisky of Bradford writes, "My husband Chuck...

RABIES PRIMER: Ever wonder which of the wild critters that occasionally scurry across your backyard or are spotted in the surrounding forest might be ...

BIG CAT: It's been awhile since anyone has reported seeing a mountain lion but we have one today. Lori Charnisky of Bradford writes, "My husband Chuck...

ON THE MOVE: We've reported that our dry summer weather has brought rattlesnakes into downtown Emporium. Laurie Garrigan sends along a note: "Mrs. Str...

This is RTS for Friday, July 20, 2007 WHAT A GAS: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations names this group as one of the top two o...

42 DEGREES: Dan Whiteman of Mesa, Ariz., dropped us an e-line late last week: "Today at 4:30 a.m. while on the way to work, NPR radio reported Bradfor...

EIGHT IN ALL: Talk about having a front row seat to history. Martha Rhodes, a dental hygienist in the Bradford Area School District and a member of th...

RATTLERS!: You think you have complaints about our very hot and dry summer, consider this: Low water is resulting in rattlesnakes making their way dow...