Round the Square

WAR NEWS: An April 17, 1943, story in The Era told of six U.S. seamen rescued after 46 days in an open boat. The story said it was the missing lifeboa...

LEEKS: The leeks are ready. Andy Heffner of Ormsby called Thursday afternoon to report that he went out a few days before on Friday night and got leek...

EARTH DAY: Earth Day is Sunday, and Arbor Day is April 27. Here’s a roundup of some of the events planned around the area this weekend to celebrate Mo...

NEWS: “Allied Airmen Score Stunning 84-3 Aerial Victory over Axis.” This was the headline of The Era on April 15, 1943. The U.S. was fighting in World...

DARK SKIES: This week is International Dark Sky Week, and the International Dark-Sky Association is celebrating. According to the association, “Intern...

WRITERS GROUP: Donald Neal of Bradford tells us his inspiration for this new poem is Colette Roessler, the adult programming and marketing director at...

GETTING WARMER : With the weather hopefully staying a bit warmer, people will likely be on the road more. And more than likely, people will be making ...

ROUTE 6: The PA Route 6 Alliance has declared April as Artisan Month along U.S. Route 6. The alliance is celebrating the month “by acknowledging some ...

GONE FISHIN’: Trout and salmon season officially kicks off at 8 a.m. Saturday in Pennsylvania. To mark the occasion, Bendigo State Park officials invi...

WOODCHUCK: Andy Heffner of Ormsby called to tell us he recently saw the “weirdest thing I’ve seen in my life.” Andy looked out his window to see a fur...

TULLAH: For Women’s History Month in March, The Era published a series of stories on women who have left their mark on Bradford, including that left b...

SAP RETURNS : Hal Harmon of Bradford got in touch with The Bradford Era to fill us in on the surprising age of trees used in a feature photo of sap co...

SPACE: NASA is preparing a mission to search for habitable planets elsewhere in space. On April 16, the agency will launch its Transiting Exoplanet Su...

BRADFORD, PA: The front page of Wednesday’s Era described a 10th anniversary celebration for a platform where people can share stories about good old ...

TROUT: We know there’s a lot of anglers itching to cast their fishing poles in the water. They’ll have that chance on Saturday, if they’re interested ...

BRICKS & STAMPS: Bill Bauer of St. Marys added to our conversation about the Kushequa bricks. The backward S that appeared was actually a misprint, ac...

MLK: Fifty years ago today, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on the balcony of hotel room in Memphis, Tenn. At the Natio...

APRIL FOOLS: With April Fools’ Day falling on Easter this year — and since we don’t publish a Sunday paper — we cut our readers a break from our annua...

IN NEED : April is National Child Abuse Prevention month. We want to share some information about the Children’s Advocacy Center of McKean County. In ...

GUARD: Ten years ago, on April 4, the Bradford Era reported on the National Guard breaking ground for a Bradford Readiness Center to be used by the Pe...