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GAS NOTES: More today from our roving gas reporters: Theresa Tunall wrote us a week ago: "I just returned from visiting my son in Edgemoor S.C. (which...

WHITE OAK: One of our favorite trees is November's "tree of the month" - the white oak. The Bureau of Forestry, Elk State Forest, tells us that the wh...

ESKIMO VISIT: We began yesterday to tell you about a letter Bradford Landmark Society just received from the great-grandson of an Eskimo family who ha...

ESKIMO UPDATE: Imagine hearing from someone after a visit 80 years ago! That, essentially, is what happened to Bradford Landmark Society which recentl...

BOBCAT?: Several readers tell us the large cat pictured in Saturday's column was definitely a bobcat - not a mountain lion. They pointed to the bobbed...

WILCOX GUY: In a column last week, we had passed along a reader's item about a baseball player named DeChano who had helped pitch a no-hitter at the Y...

SURVIVAL TIPS: Everyone keeps predicting record turnout for today's presidential election so we pass along some "survival tips" from the League of Wom...

1890 ELECTION: In its current newsletter, the Landmark Society reprints this poem, written in 1890 and published in The Bradford Era. The sentiment is...

BIG CAT: Get a load of this cat: Don Rice sent along a photograph taken at the end of September near Duke Center by an automatic stationary trail came...

FAMOUS FOLKS: We had some serious omissions in our recent recitation of famous people to visit Bradford. That's the word from Frederick J. Young of Br...

IKE LOVITZ: Jim Flynn of Erie writes about Ike Lovitz, one of several so-called ragmen who worked the Bradford area. "I used to sell our newspapers to...

SPORTS TALK: Larry Vecellio of Gainesville, Ga., has a follow-up on our recent column about local sports. He writes, "I can recall playing in the McKe...

THREE RAGMEN: Lee Lovitz of Coventry, R.I., explains the confusion over the name of the so-called "ragmen" who lived in Bradford. He writes, "There we...

SPORTS SCENE: Joe Bennett of West Lafayette, Ind., has a follow-up to our article on Frank Langianese's career as a football umpire: "Growing up in Le...

INDIAN SUMMER?: "Have we been enjoying Indian summer weather? I don't think so because my dad told me that we have squaw winter first (the snow arrive...

GAS STORIES: As our gasoline prices vacillate, so do reports from our traveling correspondents from across the country. Tom Ewell of Montgomery, N.Y.,...

JUNK MAN: Bill "Gus" Gocella writes us from Crossville, Tenn.: "I remember growing up during the WW II and after and there was a 'junk man.' His name ...

BRADFORD FAN: Who was that man at EPCOT at Disney World in Florida that sang high praises of Bradford? Chuck Mortimer, who had lived on Bolivar Drive,...

LOOK UP: Our first report this season of overhead geese comes from Art Slike of Bradford who heard the honking on Sunday after he came out of church. ...

ONE MORE: Lester Jordan of Smethport has a follow-up on our reports about Holmes and Gilfillan, a store in Smethport which carried lumber and assorted...