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April 18, 2013 / Columns

Reflections of nature

By Bill Bower

While writing this column, I heard on the news that a difficult season is predicted for those with spring allergies. More...

Wong Foo’s outdoor fish market reported record sales Saturday, especially his trout, attributing it to the large number of anglers who didn’t want to admit to their wives that they didn’t catch anything on the opening day of the sea More...

The Way We Were...

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

Tomorrow, April 19, will mark the 50th anniversary of when a crazed gunman fired a pistol at the front of the Rocket Office on Wyalusing’s State Street, where Trooper Kenneth Owens is pictured examining the shattered glass in the front door, on More...

Seen ‘N’ Heard

Last week’s eyes belonged to Courtney Salsman. More...

JUST ASK ALICE

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

DEAR ALICE: Is it true the North Koreans are planning a cyber attack on the U.S. that will bring our economy to a halt? —SCARED IN SILVARA DEAR SCARE: Don’t tell the North Koreans, but they’re five years too late. 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 26, 1963 issue. State police are investigating the shooting at the Wyalusing Rocket, which penetrated the front door. More...

The bugle calls

This is the latest installment in a series of profiles of members of the 141st Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, which was comprised of men from Bradford County who fought in the Civil War. More...