LOOK UP: Those blimps at football games have to get to where
they’re going somehow – but how often have you seen one
overhead?

Era reporter Jason Burt and his family spied one the afternoon
of Monday, Sept. 4. Jason’s parents had gone outside to help his
older sister, Danielle, load up her car to return to her home in
Washington, D.C.

“My dad came back inside and said they saw a blimp. I looked out
the window and saw it at a distance, flying over the hill in about
the area over Clermont. It flew over the hill before my dad could
get the camera and take a picture.

“He said it was closer than when I saw it, and it must have been
windy because the wind blew it up over the hill pretty quickly, he
said. He also said he thought he saw the ‘Met Life’ logo on the
side of it, so it could have been heading from someplace (maybe
Buffalo or something) to Pittsburgh.”

No word on whether Snoopy was at the helm.

GAS PAINS: We keep hearing about that drastic reduction in
gasoline prices across the country. You couldn’t prove it by
Bradford.

We got a message Monday from Gus Gocella, on a road trip to
Virginia, where the price was $2.34 a gallon. That 50-cent
difference, he noted, translates to about $800 a year more that
Bradfordians with two cars end up paying at the pump.

Here’s some other messages we’ve received, mostly late last week
–

Janice Himes of Bradford writes, “My sister lives in Findlay,
Ohio, and calls me regularly with gas prices. She just informed me
that gas just dropped to $2.29/gallon. Last week it was $2.37. I
just don’t understand why we are paying so much more locally for
gas.”

Margie Holland of Bradford writes, “I was in Shippensburg over
the weekend and I bought gas there for $238.9!ðSounds unbelievable,
but true. There were several stations selling for that and some
selling for $239.9.”

We also had reports that gas was selling for $2.69 in Port
Allegany and $2.59 in Clearfield.

Bob Wilton of Bradford writes, “Now we ask where the
Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is in their investigation of
price gouging? By the way, gas at Seneca Junction is $2.41, so we
have a choice.”