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Cozy Embers Campground and Cabins takes 2025 Harvey prize
Business, Local News
Oct 29, 2025
The Harvey L. Golubock Business Competition’s $20,000 grand prize was awarded Tuesday evening to Scott and Jessica Larkin, business owners of Cozy Emb...
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Move McKean teams making strides toward fitness
Local News
Oct 29, 2025
Since the Move McKean wellness initiative kicked off Oct. 1, the team with Knowlton's Gym has taken the lead, followed closely by Control Chief Corp. ...
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OMG podiatrist expands foot, ankle capabilities
Local News
Oct 29, 2025
OLEAN, N.Y. — Olean Medical Group (OMG), a Kaleida Health organization, is expanding access to advanced foot and ankle care through new surgical and n...
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Pitt-Bradford sets trunk-or-treat
Local News
Oct 29, 2025
Pitt-Bradford students, from left, Clara Kusnierz of Duke Center, Seif Abouzeid of Wexford and Tianna Gray of Brooklyn, N.Y., advertise a Halloween Tr...
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Dia De Los Muertos
Local News
Oct 29, 2025
A display in Frame-Westerberg Commons at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford celebrates "Dia De Los Muertos" (Day of the Dead). The holiday, whic...
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COUDERSPORT: Good deed repairs statue
Local News
Oct 29, 2025
COUDERSPORT — An elegant statue perched above the Schadenberger Mausoleum in Eulalia Cemetery has received a major facelift to repair damages possibly...
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New welcome sign greets travelers on Route 6
Local News
Oct 29, 2025
SMETHPORT — Travelers heading into McKean County from the east along U.S. Route 6 are now welcomed by a new sign celebrating the county’s proud connec...
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Animals causing odor issue in vacant house added to nuisance list Tuesday
Local News
In vacant house added to nuisance list Tuesday
By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER marcie@bradfordera.com 
Oct 29, 2025
Five more properties, including a place called the "worst smelling house" the Department of Property Maintenance has ever dealt with, were added to th...
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County ordinance ‘not exclusionary, it’s protective’
Local News
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
Oct 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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First Night seeks fireworks finale funds
Local News
By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
Oct 29, 2025
First Night Bradford has become a beloved annual tradition where locals welcome the New Year with friends and neighbors. The drug-and-alcohol-free cel...
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Two firemen promoted by Bradford City Council
Local News
By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER marcie@bradfordera.com 
Oct 29, 2025
In a brief meeting of Bradford City Council Tuesday, two firemen were promoted in the ranks of the city's full-time fire department. Greg Lewis was pr...
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Preemption push: Lawmakers target local gun ordinances
Local News, PA State News
Sara Furlong 
Oct 29, 2025
HARRISBURG — Article I, Section 21 of the Pennsylvania Constitution states, “The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the S...
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Local oil purchasers decrease prices
Business, Local News
Oct 29, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Tuesday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Pur...
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Content provenance: The next frontier?
Local News, Nation & World, PA State News
By CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
Oct 29, 2025
HARRISBURG — It’s an increasingly common phenomenon. We see an image or video appear in our social media feed, and we aren’t sure whether it’s real, a...
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Cozy Embers claims Harvey grand prize
Business, Local News
Oct 28, 2025
Scott and Jessica Larkin, owners of Cozy Embers Campground and Cabins, won the Harvey L. Golubock Business Competition’s $20,000 grand prize Tuesday e...
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Halloween happenings
Local News
By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
Oct 28, 2025
Halloween trick-or-treat hours to be held Friday: City of Bradford, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Bradford Township, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Eldred, 6 to 8 p.m. Otto Township...
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Slow Down, Move Over
Local News
Oct 28, 2025
There is no state in the nation where police officers, construction workers, firefighters, tow truck drivers, EMTs, good Samaritans or stranded motori...
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