RTS (Round the Square)

SEPT. 29, 1929: It was 80 years ago today, that famed aviator Harri Emery of Bradford crashed his airplane near Kane. Emery and several local people w...

TEN FOOT: That swimming hole known as "Ten Foot" was used by quite a few Bradford kids, if our feedback is any indication. Larry Skiver of Lafayette d...

THE CLASSIC: If you like marching bands, you need to get to Parkway Field tomorrow. The Bradford Marching Owls will present the 30th Annual Autumn Cla...

LETTER HOME: Leah Costik begins school today in Turkey where she is on a year-long Rotary Exchange program in Izmir. Yesterday, we quoted from one of ...

LETTER HOME: Bad enough starting school in a new city. How about in a new country? That's the situation being faced by Leah Costik who is on a year-lo...

NOT BEARS: Jack Brunner of Bradford can tell us unequivocally that it is not bears tearing up large amounts of sod in search of grubs. It's crows! Jac...

DENZEL MANIA: Harriet Armstrong of Bradford writes, "While Denzel Washington is in the area for the filming of 'Unstoppable,' I'd like to put in a plu...

OLD HOME POEM: With today's column, we conclude a poem printed initially about 100 years ago in The Era to celebrate Old Home Days in August of 1909. ...

OLD HOME POEM: Before we leave Bradford's celebration of the discovery of oil, we have another piece of poetry written as part of Old Home Week during...

MAPLE MANIA: Sometimes, we can't see the trees for the forest. That's the message we got from a Henrico, Va., man who is singing the praises of acer P...

BEAR WRAP-UP: Bear reports are diminishing as autumn approaches. Diminishing, however, does not mean disappearing. We have a few from early September ...

OIL 150: Virginia Johnson of Bradford is among our readers who enjoyed The Era's coverage of the Oil 150 celebration, and the well shoot. She writes, ...

LABOR OF LOVE: Our Labor Day column, which called attention to the daily grind of newspaper reporters, was a hit with a couple of readers. Former Brad...

LISTEN UP: If you're in the lower part of Elk and Cameron counties, you might hear some elk bugling. This is prime time for viewing the elk in the so-...

DATE OF INFAMY: To anyone alive in America on Sept. 11, 2001, this is surely a "date that will live in infamy" - to borrow FDR's description of the at...

SEPT. 11, 2001: We're giving you a day to prepare. Dawn Pletcher, co-director of Goodies for our Troops in Wellsboro, passes along a worthy suggestion...

TOP SHELF: Elk State Forest has named the black cherry the "Tree of the Month" for September. Those in the timber industry would probably dub it "Tree...

COUGAR TIME: We hear from A. Buck Tantalo of Bradford: "Mountain Lions: Are these large cats in Penn's woods? Yes. "When you're 4 feet from a mountain...

LABOR DAY: How many reporters does it take to produce The Bradford Era? No, not a joke. A column for Labor Day about the daily grind of a newspaper re...

ON WING: The same Smethport reader who reported a flock of geese has called with more bad news. Her male hummingbirds are all gone, and only three fem...