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SWINE STORY: Long before the recent discovery (and subsequent death) of three feral pigs near Allegany State Park, Bob Slike of Derrick City has a clo...

IT’S TODAY: The hills of Pennsylvania. Hunting season. Clean, crisp water and air. Night skies full of stars. Leeks in the spring; ground pine in Nove...

DEEP SUBJECT: We began Darrell Harris’ first hand-account yesterday of the dangerous practice of shooting an oilwell. The veteran oilman, who lives in...

OIL ACCOUNT: A recent reminiscence about the Bradford oilfields prompted a response from Darrell Harris of Oswayo. His account, not just a clarificati...

HELPING HANDS: ’Tis the season to give. Even in our bad economy, people will still reach into their pockets to help those who are less fortunate, espe...

EMERY HOTEL: Yvonne Cattoni of Bradford writes: “As long as you are talking about the old Bradford, what about the Emery Hotel? My grandmother, Ellen ...

BOARING NEWS: A couple follow-up comments today on the stories we brought you about the wild pigs spotted — and subsequently killed — in the vicinity ...

DIVE IN: There may be a little chill in the air, but RTS readers are still remembering the warmth of summers gone by and those old swimming holes. Joh...

RARE FIND: Gary Dahler from Campbelltown Road brought in this rare find to show our readers. These are twin black walnuts, an anomaly of nature becaus...

LOOK UP: Dominick and Bill phoned last week to report seeing two bald eagles at the Tuna Cross Road Bridge. They tried to snap a photo but, alas, the ...

LOOK UP: One of our RTS regulars stopped by Thursday with an interesting follow-up to our Veterans Day column about World War II pilot Wildrick Hart a...

HOTS NEWS: Everything you ever wanted to know about Texas hots (but were afraid to ask) is answered today by Pete Plumpis of Tonawanda, N.Y., son of t...

SPECIAL TOWNS: “My father, Jack Caswell, worked for the water department for many years. He passed away 10 years ago. I received via mail a photo of m...

OIL NOTES: Pat Clifford of Oconomowoc, Wisc., has a few comments on the oilfields around Bradford: “Back in the early ’50s my dad would take me to wor...

GREAT ADVENTURE: World War II pilot Wildrick Hart of Bradford has written a fascinating story of his bombing runs over Germany and France, and we were...

OLD FRIENDS: Some post scripts on that Wall Street Journal story about long-time pals and pols in Lewis Run: Ed Rose of Beaumont, Texas, and a native ...

401K BLUES: Once upon a time, “retirement” meant leaving work forever at age 65. Today, that description no longer applies to many of the millions of ...

DYNAMIC DUO: Talk about politics making for strange bedfellows. That might be true, figuratively and somewhat literally, for the team of leaders in Le...

DYNAMIC DUO: It’s not too often you see a local face on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. But we did on Monday when there was a signature Jou...

NICK’S RECIPE: Not long ago a reader lamented the loss of the Texas hot recipe from Nick’s Red Hots. It’s not lost at all … but not exactly found, eit...