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The national discussion on keeping students off cell phones during school has reached full boil in many state capitals.

The Center Square

Nation & World, PA State News

March 19, 2026

Student cell phone use called ‘catastrophic’ for taxpayers as ban mulled

By FORD TURNER The Center Square

(The Center Square) — The national discussion on keeping students off cell phones during school ha...

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The Bradford Era

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Business, Local News

Local oil purchasers increase prices

March 19, 2026

Two local oil purchasers have increased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Wednesday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil P...

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Business, Local News

Oncology nurse earns first‑quarter Nightingale Award

March 19, 2026

Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General Hospital, Kaleida Health facilities, have named Kristyn Wilber, RN, an oncology nurse at the Barry ...

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Local News

Pitt-Bradford hosts screening of ‘Bring Her Home’

March 19, 2026

In an effort to highlight the increasingly high level of violence against women in Indigenous communities, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford wi...

Outdoors, Sports

Outdoors: Having some fun with ‘history’

By WADE ROBERTSON

March 19, 2026

As a public figure — hunter, fisherman, shooter, writer and occasional speaker — I receive my share of criticism on a variety of issues. One of the mo...

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Lifestyles

Teens’ clothes-swapping eventually goes as predicted

March 19, 2026

DEAR ABBY: When my daughter entered her teens, she and her friends began borrowing each other's clothes. I didn't approve, and I warned my daughter th...

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