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COVER GIRL: A beautiful picture of an elk - you can practically pet her - adorns the cover of the March/April edition of Pennsylvania magazine. Willia...

HOODY HOO!: We were intrigued when scanning the Potter Leader Enterprise, Couderport's weekly newspaper, to find a photograph of a large group of peop...

LARRY PEACE: A new entry today in our ongoing contest to name Bradford's "greatest" athlete. We heard from Derrick Milne of Bradford: "First of all, I...

LADYBEETLES: Every year, we get questions about hordes of ladybugs - actually, the Asian ladybeetles - and how to get rid of them without resorting to...

LOOK UP: Geese galore! Two separate reports Friday one from Patty of Clermont and a second from James of Tacks Inn each of whom saw northbound flocks ...

ASK GRANDMA: If there's anyone out there who know about hard times, it's the generation that survived the Great Depression and World War II. It's time...

ASK GRANDMA: If there's anyone out there who know about hard times, it's the generation that survived the Great Depression and World War II. It's time...

SLED COMPANY: A little girl with polio was the inspiration of a McKean County man who came up with an invention that would make sledding easier for ki...

OUR TOWN: Judy Rose drops us a line, "I would like to pass on this e-mail I received from my sister in New Jersey. I thought it was very interesting a...

JIM OWENS: Dick Bova of Port Allegany writes, "Another little Jim Owens story. As teen-agers, we had a baseball league that included Cyclone, Smethpor...

WHICH ONE?: John C. McCoy of El Prado, N.M., can sympathize with our struggles with the English language. He writes, "In the early '80s, I was charged...

LOCAL ANGLE?: Doreen Tominez of Rochester, N.Y., has a post-Oscar question. "At sixth ward school there was a librarian by the name of Mrs. Dalton (th...

GRAMMAR COPS: Judith dePonceau of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, writes to us after learning of the retirement of Jim Kilpatrick, long-time author of The Writ...

GOOGILY EYES: Robert Ward of Wellsboro writes: "A few days ago, you mentioned a few of the old time funnies. Who can forget some of the others, i.e., ...

TOM KEANE: Call it a popularity contest, of sorts, but Tom Keane of Bradford was voted "Sportsman of the Century" in a poll taken many years ago by th...

THE BEST: "Pitcher Jim Owens and football star Stew Barber are two athletes the Bradford area can be proud of, but neither can lay claim to being 'Bra...

WELCOME NEWS: We are so in the dead of winter in mid-February, and yet … hope? Mary Maxine Weis of Emporium phoned Monday to tell us her snow drops ar...

BEAR ALERT: Beware: Some local bears are out of hibernation. We've had a couple reports in the last week or so that bears have been spotted at a few l...

NASCAR NOTES: Our recent note on the 1958 NASCAR race at Bradford Speedway has drawn some interesting feedback including this note from Sharon Andress...

WORM WORDS: "We found a woolly bear caterpillar outside yesterday (Sunday) happily crawling along in a bare spot of grass!" We received the photo from...