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Owls return experience, chase points on mat
Local Sports
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
December 9, 2025
Bradford High School boys wrestling will look to senior Jordan Thompson to lead a group featuring 11 returning lettermen into the 2025-26 season. Comi...
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Lady Owls wrestling set to embark on second season
Local Sports
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
December 5, 2025
Ready to embark on just its second ever season, Bradford High’s girls wrestling team returns four letterwinners from its inaugural campaign. Seniors L...
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Zippo, Case support LEEK mission
Local News
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
December 4, 2025
This is a story of philanthropy and a blind veteran of the U.S. Marines who bagged a pheasant — with a little help from his friends. Prior to this yea...
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Clermont solar developer has history of environmental infractions
Local News
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
November 28, 2025
Energix Renewables, developer of a nearly 700-acre solar array in Sergeant Township, McKean County, has incurred heavy fines for repeated environmenta...
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State cuts threaten rural arts; petition advocates for preservation
Local News
Petition advocates for preservation 
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
November 21, 2025
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) announced recently that all statewide partnerships will end in September 2026, threatening small and rural ...
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Business, Local News
150 years strong and growing 
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
November 19, 2025
In an age of shrinking newsrooms and vanishing print editions, The Bradford Era is defying the odds. Recently, our Facebook reach surpassed 1 million ...
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Leaking legacy: Orphan well finally being plugged
Local News
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
November 14, 2025
For a long time, it was just a rusty old metal thing in an east Bradford backyard, marked with an orange cone so the owners wouldn’t run it over with ...
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County ordinance ‘not exclusionary, it’s protective’
Local News
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
October 29, 2025
Nearly 18 months after Swift Current Energy first proposed its sprawling Black Cherry Wind project for McKean County, commissioners drafted a county-l...
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Norwich Twp. adds solar, battery storage rules
Local News
Expands wind energy ordinance
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
October 24, 2025
CROSBY — Norwich Township supervisors repealed the municipality’s Wind Energy Facilities, Ordinance 43, at their meeting Tuesday — replacing it with a...
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