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A horror writer’s visit to the Halton Baby Cemetery
Local News, Online Features
BILL ROBERTSON Special to The Era 
October 29, 2020
While writing my latest book, Ghosts Revisited, I traveled to 32 haunted sites in Pennsylvania and Western New York. By far, the creepiest place I tou...
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Robertson: Bolivar run neighborhood baseball
Columns, Local Sports, Sports
BILL ROBERTSON Special to The Era 
June 26, 2020
Back in the 1960s, every boy in our neighborhood liked to play baseball. If he had a wooden bat, an old glove, and a ball held together with electrica...
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Robertson: Fall of the mighty Yankees
Columns, Local Sports, Sports
BILL ROBERTSON Special to The Era 
May 26, 2020
In 1960, when I was 10 years old and living on Bolivar Drive, the New York Yankees were the mightiest team in baseball. At 97-57, they were 40 games o...
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Robertson: Fun times on the BHS rifle team
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
BILL ROBERTSON Special to The Era 
April 28, 2020
When I was fifteen, I had a really miserable deer season. I shot up a whole box of 30.06 ammo without nicking a hair on a doe’s butt. When I couldn’t ...
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Robertson: Church league basebrawl
Baseball, Local Sports, Sports
BILL ROBERTSON Special to The Era 
April 22, 2020
(Editor’s note: This is the second guest column from local author Bill Robertson taking a light-hearted look at his days playing baseball in McKean Co...
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The fat kid was always the catcher
Baseball, Columns, Local Sports, ...
BILL ROBERTSON Special to The Era 
April 8, 2020
I weighed 100 pounds in fifth grade and had to wear “husky” clothes. Despite my size, I was a good outfielder in neighborhood pickup games, so I decid...
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