Reflections of Nature
By ohtadmin | on July 17, 2024
Several weeks ago, I went grocery shopping with Mary Alice. I watched as she selected a carton of eggs, and I was surprised at the cost range of a dozen eggs. One carton of free roaming chicken eggs was priced at $6.12 for a dozen. I read on the carton that these chickens had 108 sq. feet per hen to […]
Conservation Corner
It’s Troy Fair Season
By ohtadmin | on July 17, 2024
Kevin Brown
It’s that time of year again— the Troy Fair season. There are lots of things to do at the fair, rides, shows, exhibits, food, animals, see people we haven’t seen in a long time, etc. It is a good time to be had by all. And let’s not forget the reason for the fair, celebrating agriculture. Agriculture started it all, […]
Seen ‘N’ Heard
By ohtadmin | on July 17, 2024
The tragedy at the Trump rally in Butler, PA on Saturday likely to become one of those times that most people will remember for years, including where they were and what they were doing when they first heard of the shooting. * * * Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) joining the list Wednesday of Democrats calling for Joe Biden to resign. […]
JUST ASK ALICE
By ohtadmin | on July 17, 2024
DEAR ALICE: Is this typical summer weather for this part of PA or is it unusually hot and humid? —NEW ALBANY NEWCOMER DEAR NEW: It’s unusually hot if you ask me. The other day I went in our chicken coop and watched a hen lay an omelet. —ALICE ********** DEAR ALICE: Why is it that the Bible tells us to […]
The Way We Were…
A look back at the people and places of the Wyalusing area over the last 20 years or more.
By ohtadmin | on July 17, 2024
Here’s a look back at Wyalusing’s Little League team during the summer of 1970. Members of the team included, front, from left, Kenny Howard, Brian Wilson, Alan Kinney, Ambrose Brennan and Ed Knolles. Second row: John Zaner, Martin Burns, Karl Stanton, Tony Wells, Denny Barto and Mark Welles. Third row: Mike Wells, Karl “Tiger” Peterson, Fred Howard, Jeff Lamb and […]
Jester Hill
By ohtadmin | on July 17, 2024
Paul Pringle called in sick to his workplace in Scranton two weeks ago so he could get an early plane to a job interview in Florida. While walking through the Atlanta airport to board his connecting flight, he walked right past his boss, who was going in the opposite direction holding hands with a woman who wasn’t his wife. Neither […]
The Good Old Days
By ohtadmin | on July 17, 2024
Compiled from old issues of The Wyalusing Rocket
News items gathered from an earlier edition of the Rocket-Courier, reprinted as they were in the July 19, 2001 edition. Price at the newsstand, 80¢ per copy. * * * The Bradford County K9 Unit’s history of service is closing in on a quarter of a century, starting in the late 1970s when two officers in the Towanda Police Department, […]
Reflections of Nature
By ohtadmin | on July 10, 2024
Lately, the temperatures have registered in the high 80s and even low 90s. On TV, I heard that some areas have had two heat waves, which meant that the temperature reached 90 degrees for three days in a row. Our hottest days usually do not occur until the end of July and extend through August. During this period, the hot […]
Conservation Corner
Just Clarifying: What is a Weed
By ohtadmin | on July 10, 2024
Kevin Brown
I have been going to write this for quite some time now, but something always comes up. Now is the time of year where it will make a little less sense, but hopefully you will understand what I am talking about. Maybe it will help you put fields to bed for the winter in a little better shape than usual […]
Seen ‘N’ Heard
By ohtadmin | on July 10, 2024
On Tuesday, July 2, the PA House of Representatives passing House Bill 2269, referred to as the Marriage Equality Bill, with a 133-68 vote. This bill replaces PA’s marriage law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman, and can now be between any two individuals. * * * The U.S. Postal Service expecting to increase the cost […]
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