Round the Square

LABORING: What can you do if you have to work on the Labor Day holiday? Take it from those who know — find a way to celebrate anyway. Take some time o...

LABORING: It’s the first Monday in September, every year since 1894: Labor Day. The unofficial end of summer and a relaxing way to start autumn. Most ...

MORE: We found some interesting news stories in the microfilm for the M’Kean Orbit, and were eager to share them. In 1849, it seems some area politici...

MAGAZINE: We often share photo contests when we hear about them, and we know we shared one for Pennsylvania Magazine. We were happily surprised when o...

PAPERS: We have some more to bring you from the old microfilm of the M’Kean Orbit, the Smethport-based newspaper that began in 1849. Early on, this wa...

TODAY : It’s Crackers Over the Keyboard Day! According to Nationaltoday.com , “Crackers Over The Keyboard Day is celebrated with much enthusiasm every...

PHOTO CONTESTS: Calling all photographers! There are a couple of photo contests happening now in the area. The Upper Allegheny Watershed Association i...

HISTORICAL: We were looking through some microfilm recently, and found some that’s a bit before our time — and The Era’s, too. Have you ever heard of ...

WHAT A DAY, MONTH. Today is quite an interesting day in history. Spanning centuries, how in the world did all of this happen on this date? “On this da...

ELK CAM: The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s elk game camera is once again streaming live from Elk County. See what there is to see at https://bit.ly/3...

SPIDERS: Y uck, right? Well, not always, and not for everyone. But Farmers’ Almanac has tips for keeping the eight-legged creeps out of our homes. The...

CROCHET CLOTHING is trending as the state’s “most popular summer fashion trend,” so says research done by Boohoo ( https://us.boohoo.com/womens/vacati...

FAME : They say fame is fleeting, so who knows which celebrities might make the list a decade from now. The list is the 2023 Fame Index and for Pennsy...

WATERSHED: An editorial published in The Bradford Era in recent weeks called for action in Pennsylvania to help clean up and protect the Chesapeake Ba...

CHILDREN’S SAFETY is in your hands. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation states nearly 1.5 million children are transported on Pennsylvania r...

MUSEUM: Did you know Brookville has the world’s largest collection of Cadillacs, in the Greenberg Cadillac Museum? It’s a private collection, open rar...

TV COUPLES. Who are the most iconic, loved television couples that come to mind for you? In a recent poll, 43 major TV and movie couples were analyzed...

POLICE FUNERALS : When a law enforcement officer, who has pledged to put his or her life on the line daily in serving the public good, passes away – w...

HISTORY : August 9th, in 1898, Pennsylvania Guardsmen of the 16th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry fought in the National Guard of Pennsylvania’s only ...

SOCIAL MEDIA: Chances are, just about everyone reading this has at least one account on social media – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, Snapcha...