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April 11, 2013 / Columns

Reflections of nature

By Bill Bower

Several months ago, I shelled three ears of Indian corn, which had hung on the garden shed’s door, and threw the kernels on the ground by our bird feeder. A flash of blue, a dash of white, Gleam from the branches dead, More...

The Way We Were...

A look back at the people and places of the Wyalusing area over the last 20 years or more.

It was May 19, 1938 when a crowd of area residents gathered at a hayfield just east of Wyalusing, near where PS Bank is today, to witness the first (and last) Air Mail flight to originate from Wyalusing. More...

Jester Hill

Tyson Wickhammer has come up with a sure-fire way to stop the winds that have been blowing relentlessly through Jester Hill for the past month. On Wednesday, he ordered a new wind-powered electric generator to install on his farm. More...

Seen ‘N’ Heard

Last week’s eyes belonged to Jay Cory. More...

JUST ASK ALICE

Alice Wickhammer of Jester Hill offers insight into your day-to-day traumas.

DEAR ALICE: I just saw on TV how people who drink alcohol reduce the chance that they will suffer a heart attack. I’ve been trying to convince my wife of this for years. More...

The Good Old Days

Compiled from old issues of The Wyalusing Rocket

News items of timely interest gathered from the old files of The WYALUSING ROCKET and reprinted as they were in the April 19, 1963 issue. Mrs. William Henry Lee, 90, Wyalusing’s oldest resident passed away at her home after an extended illness. More...