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MORE STORES: We turn today's column over to Nancy Fire of Bradford for our installment on old stores downtown: "Shopping for shoes, as a child of the ...

SPECIAL THANKS: Robert J. DeSousa, LTC, Command Judge Advocate, 213th ASG, Balad, Iraq, writes us: "My unit, the 213th Area Support Group, Pennsylvani...

TWO GARAGES: "Why did Bradford have two very large multi-level downtown automobile garages, the Star Garage and the General Garage?" That's today's qu...

BIGGEST FAN?: The Voice of the Steelers - Pittsburgh's Bill Hillgrove - will be in the audience March 6 to watch The Four Freshmen, who are appearing ...

TOP DOGS: Our items on Bradford's rival for top beagle - a follow-up to the Westminster dog show in which a 15-inch beagle named Uno won "best of show...

CANDY MAKERS: One of the fascinating thing about our recent columns about old stores in Bradford is how many were candy shops. John DeWitt "Dick" Walt...

LOOK UP: If you're driving past the Kinzua Dam, you might want to scan the landscape for American bald eagles. A woman reader tells us she saw three t...

R.I.P.?: Mary Ann Hannon writes us from Grand Junction, Colo.: "Are you aware that Feb. 12's Round the Square is with the obituaries? With all the rem...

TOP DOG: Uno, step aside. A Bradford beagle may make you Dos. An excited Bob Slike of Bradford, publisher of Hounds and Hunting magazine, tells us tha...

LOOK UP: James Sherwood of Turtlepoint phoned Monday and reported seeing three Eastern bluebirds. And about a week ago now, Mike Cedar of Derrick City...

BIGFOOT: A story in the recent edition of Pennsylvania Game News apparently gives the final word on our supposed "Bigfoot." Yep, it was a bear with ma...

MORE STORES: We're determined to try to plow through our list of old Bradford stores. (Operative word here is "try.") John E. Rimer of Bradford writes...

POTATO MASHER: To grasp the concept of a German hand grenade as a "potato masher," you need to think back how potato mashers used to look - not the el...

LOCAL ANGLE: We're piecing together Bradford's connection to Hollywood (again). George T. Howard of Peachtree City, Ga., writes, "I was interested in ...

LOCAL ANGLE: Famed World War II war correspondent Ernie Pyle has special meaning to another Bradford vet. Norm Wolcott Jr., now a resident of Chapel R...

MORE STORES: "Rack 'em, Smitty!" Who in Bradford doesn't remember those words? Bradfordians of a certain generation certain recall that refrain from S...

This is RTS for Monday, Feb. 11, 2008 BRIDGE SHOT: Ron Baughman of Lakewood, Colo., also saw the Kinzua Bridge in that TV program, "Life After People....

LOCAL ANGLE: Frances Evans of Marietta, Ga., was recently watching a movie, "Spartan," made in 2004. "A man looking for another man finds him and the ...

MOM & POP: Tony Falconi of Lewis Run remembers a lot of Bradford's mom and pop stores from years ago. Here's only some of his recollections: "Most wer...

GET READY: In preparation for "Little Women, The Broadway Musical," coming to Pitt-Bradford tomorrow, we have this quiz about the beloved novel. The s...