Seen ‘N’ Heard
By ohtadmin | on August 07, 2024
It’s Celebration Week in Wyalusing, when the annual Firemen’s Celebration brings more people to our community than any other single event. With plans recently announced for a new fire hall, Wyalusing’s volunteer fire company needs our support more than ever. * * * The Route 6 paving project in Black Walnut at Kinney Heights is nearing completion. Hopefully it won’t […]
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 August 07, 2024
With Wyalusing’s annual Firemen’s Celebration in full swing, we’ll look back at the company’s early days thanks to this great 1894 photograph by Wyalusing’s prolific photographer Hamlin J. Lloyd. The firemen are lined up in front of what at the time was Wyalusing’s Oddfellows Masonic Hall, which is owned by the Wyalusing Valley Museum today. The small structure on the […]
JUST ASK ALICE
By ohtadmin | on August 07, 2024
DEAR ALICE: Have you ever had a “senior moment?” —CURIOUS IN CANDOR DEAR CUR: I had one just the other day when I was at my doctor’s office and he asked me to describe the symptoms. I told him Homer is a fat guy and his wife, Marge, has blue hair. —ALICE ********** DEAR ALICE: My husband took an extra […]
The Good Old Days
By ohtadmin | on August 07, 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 Aug. 9, 2001 edition. Price at the newsstand, 80¢ per copy. * * * Kelly Stanton and Jeannie Woodruff have distinguished themselves as two of Wyalusing’s best pianists, and they have designs on playing together competitively someday soon. But first they will be performing […]
Jester Hill
By ohtadmin | on August 07, 2024
Bleeker Cunningham was pawing through his wallet for his credit card while checking out at Arbach’s General Store last Friday when a picture of his wife, Phyllis, fell out onto the counter. Miss Bessie Pullman, who was clerking that day, noted it was nice that he carried Phyllis’s photo in his wallet. “Yeah,” he responded. “I do it because it […]
Reflections of Nature
By ohtadmin | on August 07, 2024
Last week a friend stopped by our home to give me a quart of freshly picked blackberries. I had a flashback to when our children were young, and we spent many days in July and August picking blueberries, black and red raspberries and blackberries. Blackberries and raspberries, which are often called briars or brambles, are members of the Rosaceae family […]
Conservation Corner
Scholarship Opportunity For Bradford County Students
By ohtadmin | on August 07, 2024
Cathy Yeakel
Are you a resident of Bradford County and attend a college or university, majoring in natural resources, conservation, agriculture or another related environmental field? If you said yes, here is an opportunity for you to apply for some scholarship funds. Applications for the scholarship are accepted until Sept. 30 of each year. The Manchester Scholarship was created in 1991 as […]
Reflections of Nature
By ohtadmin | on July 31, 2024
On the weekend of Sunday, Aug. 4, I plan to attend the Tri County Sportsmen’s Club Annual Picnic. The club will be holding a shoot beginning at 9 a.m. to test the shooters’ skill by shooting clay birds thrown at different angles and speed. The shooters will usually have an excuse for missing a clay bird. The picnic will follow […]
Seen ‘N’ Heard
By ohtadmin | on July 31, 2024
Welcome to our first issue of August and that time of year when time starts to fly by. Next week the Wyalusing Firemen’s Celebration opens Tuesday and runs through Saturday night with the parade beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday and fireworks Friday night. Wyalusing schools will open three weeks from today on Aug. 22. And the next thing you know […]
Conservation Corner
Do You Have Electricity?
By ohtadmin | on July 31, 2024
Kevin Brown
– Ag Resource Specialist Bradford County Conservation District
This past week was an exciting one for some of us around the area. Monday night, as dusk was approaching, along came the storm of the century. For some, this would be an exaggeration, but for right where I live, probably not. I have never experienced a storm with that much wind in my lifetime. I have only had to […]
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