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ANOTHER RECIPE: This is the last one, for now. It’s a neat popcorn recipe for holiday wreaths, using Jello dessert mix to dye the treats green. Ingred...

TATTOOS: Here are some facts on tattoos from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. This year, there are an estimated 168 tattoo shops in rural Pennsylvan...

POPCORN AGAIN: Have you ever wondered why popcorn has a connection to Christmas? The Popcorn Board says, “In the low-tech late 1800s, popcorn was a fa...

TODAY: Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — Dec. 7, 1941, “a date that will live in infamy.” President Franklin D...

AFTERMATH: On Nov. 9, 1901, The Era told of the livery fire’s aftermath, the “blackened waste of wreckage” that attracted immense crowds after the fir...

FIRE in 1901: On Nov. 8, 1901, “Devoured by Flames” was the headline, followed by “Loss is over $150,000.” In 1901. That’s about $5.4 million today. B...

LOTS TO DO TODAY. There are only so many days left in the month of December and so much still to do. Did you know that today is Santa’s List Day? This...

MORE: We have more to share from one of Bradford’s early leaders, a man who seems like he was a bit of a character. Loyal Ward had come to Bradford ab...

LOYAL: The Honorable Loyal Ward, associate law judge, the seventh mayor of the City of Bradford, and member of the Board of School control, had quite ...

COOKIES: Italian anise cookies, yummm! The spice and sugar mingle merrily and dance on the taste buds. LoveBakesGoodCakes.com has the perfect recipe f...

SONG: Joe Costanzo brought by the newsroom an old Bradford relic he found cleaning out an attic recently. Costanzo turned up a well-preserved packet o...

GIVING TUESDAY: We’ve had Black Friday and Cyber Monday, so now it’s time for Giving Tuesday. Observed annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, acc...

TODAY: In the shopping world, today is what’s known as Cyber Monday, or the best day to shop online and save lots of money while doing it! According t...

FIGHT: The bear and the bull are all about Wall Street, right? Well, Bradford’s history is a bit more colorful. “The Illustrated History of Bradford” ...

CHANGE: So why the change from Littleton to Bradford? No one knows for sure, but the 1901 book “Illustrated History of Bradford, McKean County, Pa.,” ...

SEARCH: A search for the name of a Bradfordian from the early 1900s sent us to a book we hadn’t realized existed — OK, we’re a hundred and some years ...

MEAL PREP: The kids will be home for the holidays sooner than you know. We thought we would share a few kid-approved recipes from Feed Pennsylvania an...

THANKS FOR … well, sometimes it can be difficult to find the right words, we understand. But it is the perfect time of year to take a few moments to l...

THE WINNERS: Baseball cards, Cabbage Patch Kids and NERF were this year’s chosen inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame, but a fourth toy has join...

FINALISTS: There were a dozen deserving finalists, but only four made it. We’re talking about the 2023 induction into The Strong’s National Toy Hall o...