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BEST PLACE: Gary Barr writes, “Reading Becky Yunkun’s recollections of days gone by brings the nostalgia out. There wasn’t a better place in the late ...

SAME OLD: With a nod to today’s general election, we pass along some interesting political fodder from RTS reader Jan Graham: “In doing some genealogi...

BIRD NOTES: With our snowfall of a few weeks ago, Dick Robertson decided to put up his bird feeders early this year. Turned out to be a good move. So ...

IT’S TONIGHT: All the little goblins and ghouls will be out tonight trick-or-treating so be careful driving on the streets and roads. Poor kids. When ...

DOG DAYS: Our recent conversation about the old Texas hots places has brought some mail. John Carson of Bradford writes, “I must clear up the confusio...

THE DEEPS: Becky Yunkun of Laurel, Md., remembers Fathom Deep as “the place my brother Dan Close and his friends ruled during their growing-up years! ...

WILD PIGS: Susan Godfrey phoned Sunday night to tell us her experience with those scary-looking feral pigs photographed not far from Allegany State Pa...

E-FRIENDS: There are days, especially when it gets pretty busy around here, that we are grateful for our online friends whose memories of Bradford are...

WINTER MUSTS: Don’t look now but winter is closing in … and quickly. AAA sends us some reminders of items frequently overlooked as motorists begin win...

SWIMMING HOLES: More followup today on Bradford’s old swimming holes… Judi Robinson writes, “Back in the ’50s up Hedgehog Lane at the base of the moun...

LADYBUGS GALORE: No, no, no! The government did not have planes fly off and drop hordes of ladybugs on the populace! Our ongoing spate of warm weather...

SPECIAL DELIVERY: Jim Burns of Ramona, Calif., found a baby — that’s right, a newborn child — while delivering the newspapers during the 1950s. Jim an...

SEASONAL SIGNS: We spotted a woolly bear caterpillar Saturday crawling along the road in ignorant bliss of the snow only inches away. From our reading...

PASTA PLANT: We got a few calls for more information about an item that appeared in the “100 Years Ago” slot in the Oct. 14 “Another Era” referencing ...

PASTA PLANT: We got a few calls for more information about an item that appeared in the “100 Years Ago” slot in the Oct. 14 “Another Era” referencing ...

CENTURY AGO: It was in October 1909 that this poem, “The English Language,” appeared in The Bradford Era: “We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is b...

OIL SHOOT, II: “Finally, the day came to shoot the well. A bright red and yellow Dodge Power Wagon shooting truck backed up to the rig, and we watched...

WELL SHOOT: It was the spring of 1949, the waning days of the Bradford oilfield’s use of a wood standard drilling rig to “shoot” a well with nitroglyc...

JIM BRINK: Julie Brink Hamilton fills in the details of her brother’s connection to the moon landing. She writes, “I am writing about the story in tod...

DANGER SPOT: Ernie Durphy phoned Tuesday with a word of warning after reading our report that a local girl and her friends who not only still swim in ...