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LEAF PEEPING: A recent email newsletter from the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau reminded us that it will soon be fall, a season that some a...

FEEDER CLEANERS: Those hummingbird feeders that have been hanging out all summer are likely to be getting sticky and grimy by now, if you haven’t been...

BLUE RIBBON: Marge Coscia of Eldred said she was “totally amazed” when her apple pie won a blue ribbon at the McKean County Fair last week. She was a ...

WINDPROOF LIGHTER: Those words usually are associated with Bradford’s Zippo Manufacturing Co., but the New Method Manufacturing Co. here also produced...

GREEN MONSTER: You might recall the giant Cecropia moth one of our readers brought in to show us in mid-June. It had a span of nearly six inches on th...

ROUTE 6 TOUR: John C. McCoy of Arlington, Va., dropped us an email earlier this week with a link to a travel story in Sunday’s Washington Post. John g...

MORE ON HAWKS: Matt Benson of Kane emailed us on Friday with more information on the mystery hawk Sam Deeter spotted near his house on Constitution Av...

EQUAL TIME: We generally try to avoid politics and politicians in ’Round the Square, but that’s pretty difficult to do when a candidate for governor d...

HAWK ID: We hope no one was betting money on what kind of a hawk Sam Deeter spotted around his home on Constitution Avenue. Chris Clark called to tell...

POLICE FEES: The help-wanted ad in Saturday’s Era struck us as unusual. The City of Warren is accepting applications for the position of police office...

ONION RECIPES: Debbie Babcox of Smethport was the first to respond to Emma Jane Burns’ request on Monday for some new onion recipes to try out on a mo...

MONSTER ONION: Emma Jane Burns admits to being an onion lover, and she came across one last week that is surely big enough to embrace. Her sister, Ali...

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LIGHTNING BUGS: There are few things that say summer in Pennsylvania’s more-rural areas than fireflies flickering in the darkness of a hot, humid even...

ONCE A MARINE: Richard Clark stopped by last week to encourage all veterans of the Marine Corps to join up with their comrades through the local chapt...

BERRY MEMORIES: Carole Longo grew up in an Italian family on East Main Street in the 1950s and has fond memories of those days. Now living in a Philad...

TRUCKER’S PRAYER: Frances Wolfe Haight of Kane has written volumes of poems over the years and recently penned a new one that was inspired by her son,...

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CROSSWALK CLARITY: One of our regular readers shared a pet peeve he has about our downtown crosswalks. He has no problem stopping his car for pedestri...

BIG LILIES: We should file this under monster lilies, rather than Easter lilies. Jim Randolph of Onofrio Street called to tell us about some four-foot...