RTS (Round the Square)

GOOD IDEA: Why can’t Bradford have a big community garden? Or a lot of little ones? Everything you read about healthy living and even environmental co...

GOT BOOKS?: If you do, our Newspapers In Education Coordinator Jane Larson would like to hear from you. The NIE department at The Era will have a used...

WRONG PLACE: We gave the wrong location for the re-enactment of a murder trial from the 1930s, an event being sponsored by the McKean County Historica...

BEE PHOTOS: Turn to The Era’s Web site (bradfordera.com) to catch some great candid shots of young people at the Scripps National Spelling Bee held at...

SKATING SPOTS: Sandy Fox of Cyclone writes about skating ponds: “The one on Droney Road in Gifford was a great place. The pond was on oil company prop...

MORE PONDS: Bob Funk of Smethport writes, “Smethport was well-known for two ice skating ponds as I was growing up. The first one I can remember was a ...

COYOTE ATTACK: Coyotes have been known to pick off a cat or small dog on occasion but we were shocked to read recently that a Canadian musician was ki...

HAPPY 100: One of our frequent contributors over the years has been Jim Piscitelli who marks the Big 1-0-0 with a huge party today. We’d be remiss if ...

TOP DOG: Talk about a combination of good looks and talent, this guy has it all. We’re talking about Robin, a 7-year-old golden retriever handled by S...

CORNER STORE: We bring you some poetry from the Feb. 5, 1910, edition of The Bradford Era. It’s called, “The Corner Grocery Store”: “When the wind swe...

FIRST ONES: We have good news today and bad news. Good news: A large flock of robins was spotted! Bad news: They were spotted in Florida … Kaye Campog...

4 SEASONS: “We wanted to put Bradford on the map.” That’s why Student Council at Bradford Area High School wanted to bring the Four Seasons to town in...

OUR LOSS: One of our first acquaintances upon moving to Bradford was Wilbur Williams, then a state “fish warden” who took particular joy in pointing o...

MR. GASKIN: Roger Eimer of Bradford remembers well the black barber in Smethport we wrote about in recent columns; His father was a barber in his shop...

SCOTT BROWN: Judi Fisher-Miller of Plainville, Mass., writes of her now-famous political neighbor: “Not often I get to read about one of my neighbors ...

DOG PARK: With all the empty spaces in an around Bradford, why can’t we have a dog park? Most cities have these enclosed areas which give dogs a place...

FOUR SEASONS: More today on the Four Seasons performing in Bradford in the early 1960s. David Hall of Arvada, Colo., writes, “The Four Seasons did per...

FOUR SEASONS: The answer is yes, yes, yes — The Four Seasons did perform in Bradford in the early 1960s. We’ve received quite a few responses to the q...

POST SCRIPT: We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention some comments by Jim Herzog of Smethport when he passed along the family history, “Smethport Memories...

‘SWEET TOWN’: A family of African-Americans growing up in Smethport in the early 1900s would certainly have interesting insights, and such is the case...