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PLAY BALL: Our tiny item about Bradford's minor league ball teams drew some quick response: Bill Bedell of Jacksonville, Fla., writes, "Ahhh, the 'Bal...

LUNCH TIME: "I was talking on my office phone while watching a meadowlark just outside the window. Suddenly, a sharp-shinned hawk came out of nowhere ...

A TRIBUTE: We admit to being a "sap" for a beautiful old tree, so we could relate to Bobbie Joe McCormick of Bradford who pointed out one we'd passed ...

HUNGRY BEAR: If you're in the East Smethport area, be on the lookout for a very hungry 400-pound bear. That's the word today from Alice Elliott who te...

ART WORK: Our item on Jack Clark, the creator of the Zippo art department, sparked a memory for a Florida man. Ronald Mealey of Venice, Fla., writes, ...

MORE PEEPS: Rudy Luce and Hunter Cole of Marshburg heard the first peepers of the year at about 6 p.m. Sunday at Sugar Run. "They were loud. Really lo...

APRIL 1, 1945: "Sixty-three years ago on April 1, 1945, the battle for Okinawa began. We landed on the north end of the island. I don't remember the J...

OH, ZIPPO: We always think we've heard every story there is about Zippo but Alice Razzano of Winnabow, N.C., passes along a new one about the company'...

LT. ENRIGHT: Mardi Karr of Kirkland, Wash., writes: "I am the niece of Robert Enright who was killed at the Battle of Midway. I've been in awe of the ...

WPSU.ORG : When U.S. Rep. John Peterson announced a couple months ago he was retiring, it set off groans throughout newsrooms across his sprawling 5th...

FIRST ONES: Our very first peeper report for 2008 comes from Chip Swanson of Wilcox at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Just a few hours later, at 7:55 p.m., Debbie De...

LT. ENRIGHT: Mardi Karr of Kirkland, Wash., writes: "I am the niece of Robert Enright who was killed at the Battle of Midway. I've been in awe of the ...

FIRST ONES: Our very first peeper report for 2008 comes from Chip Swanson of Wilcox at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Just a few hours later, at 7:55 p.m., Debbie De...

ON WING: That tundra swan injured in a traffic accident in mid-March has been released back into the wild. Carol Holmgren, assistant wildlife rehabili...

PARKWAY FIELD: Readers of RTS are pretty familiar with the names Bob Pflug and Rock Denning, legendary football coaches at Bradford High. Think how pr...

SNIPPETS: Fred Mackendrick of Petersburg, Ill., writes, "You mention band members in the '40s. We would listen for hours, Louie Tentillo playing his a...

ONE HOUR: If every American household turns off the lights during Earth Hour - which is today - it will prevent more than 16,500 tons of CO2 from ente...

SPRING THING: Janette Woodruff of Smethport phoned Monday night to report an adult black bear in her backyard on East Willow Street. Now that hibernat...

LT. ENRIGHT: Information has been pouring in on Lt. Robert Enright who we mentioned in a previous column and, by all accounts, was a true American her...

15 CENT'ERS: Right before Easter, Betty Fink of Lafayette gave us a flashback to one of those old stores we've been writing about, McCrory's. Betty sh...