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SIGNS OF SPRING: Because of this almost never-ending winter, there hasn’t been the usual flow of reports of horticultural awakenings we expect this ti...

TASTEE-FREEZ: Jim Belardia noticed a story last week in The Era about a new Shults Auto body shop being built on the site of the former E-Z TV and App...

CARS ON ICE: Our last couple of columns have recounted the history of the timed automobile ice trials that ran from 1964 into the 1980s on Red House L...

ICE RACING: It was 50 years ago last month that the Allegheny Valley Sports Car Association held its first ice trials on Red House Lake in Allegany St...

WHAT A DEAL: Overseas con artists must think it’s sucker fishing season here. In the past couple of days, two doozies have shown up in our office, pro...

NITRO SHOOTERS: Work in the oilfields can be dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as it was in the early days of the industry, when safety standards...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: There’s no reason to send a gift or a card, but it’s worth noting that Sunday will be Pennsylvania’s 333rd birthday. On March 9, 1681,...

BIRTHDAY WISHES: We’re jumping the gun on this one a bit, but Frances Wolfe Haight of Kane gave us plenty of notice that her birthday is coming up by ...

LOTTERY PAYOUTS: Nobody in Pennsylvania has won one of the huge multistate lotteries recently, but it isn’t for lack of trying. We’ve done our share t...

CHASING THE BLUES: Ann and Vic Longo have come up with a light-hearted way to keep the winter blahs at bay. This year, instead of taking down their gr...

STORM PREP: Watching television news reports and reading wire service dispatches about the winter storm that hammered the Carolinas and Georgia before...

SWEET MEMORY: We’ve grown to look forward to mail from Frances Wolfe Haight of Kane because her letters frequently include a poem or two that she’s wr...

PHIL’S SONG: Bradford native Kevin “Slim” Forsythe, who sang at the annual Groundhog Day observance in Punxsutawney a week ago, sent us a link to a Yo...

THE OLD COUNTRY: Pete Palumbo shared his experiences from a trip to his ancestral homeland in the Calabria region of Italy in Thursday’s RTS. He provi...

ITALIAN HISTORY: Pete Palumbo of Bradford is a former chemistry and physics teacher in the Otto-Eldred schools. In his retirement, he’s turned more to...

MORE NESS: We thought we had exhausted our discussion of Eliot Ness until a package from Clayton Vecellio of Lewis Run arrived on Monday. Clayton, an ...

AS SEEN ON TV: Viewers of HGTV’s House Hunters show will see a familiar face if they tune in at 10 p.m. Feb. 13, Fran Rovito tells us. His daughter Ke...

ELIOT NESS 2: With Eliot Ness in the news again after a proposal to name the headquarters of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Expl...

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GROUNDHOG DAY: We reported earlier this week that the Beagle Brothers band, which includes three brothers who grew up in Kane, would be playing for th...