Breaking News, Local News
December 26, 2025
Due to the severity of Friday's winter storm, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is temporarily prohibiting trucks heavier than 1...
Columns, Local Sports, Sports
Jul 14, 2020
The question has been asked by fans since mid-March: What’s going to happen with sports given the far-reaching effects of Covid-19? Scholastic, colleg...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Jul 13, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — First, let’s address the good news, those little tidbits of information that help bridge one St. Bonaventure basketball season...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jul 11, 2020
Time’s often been compared to a river. Rivers can be smooth flowing, peaceful and beautiful to behold. But, they can suddenly change into raging torre...
Columns, High School, Local Sports, ...
Jul 10, 2020
A couple weeks ago, I tried to map out a list of all the places I’ve covered games at during my two and a half years at The Era. Of course, there were...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jul 10, 2020
The tin container appeared to be the type that cookies come in. Instead, the container held McCormick’s orange pekoe tea bags. It’s hard to say just h...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jul 09, 2020
The gift that keeps on giving. Christmas, more years ago than I can remember, is when it came to me. It was a toolbox crafted as a school industrial a...
Baseball, Columns, Local Sports, ...
Jul 08, 2020
The 2020 season wasn’t going to be an easy one for the Pittsburgh Pirates, with the team opting to start rebuilding from the bottom up after an abysma...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Jul 06, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Jaren English had been looking forward to this day for months. “I’m excited,” the rising junior guard said in early June, when...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jul 06, 2020
Last week, Matt Wilson, Terra Haines and I were in Cameron County on our quest for rattlesnakes. None of us intended to harm the snakes in any way, th...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Jul 03, 2020
If Bills fans believed Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contention that the National Football League would be “business as usual” this coming season, they...
Columns, Local Sports, Sports
Jul 03, 2020
It’s been anything but a typical summer for our area’s athletes, coaches and athletic directors. With the COVID-19 pandemic ongoing, teams had been un...
Baseball, Columns, Local Sports, ...
Jun 30, 2020
It was one of the points, an “oh, yeah” moment, raised by Portville baseball coach Mike Matz in a phone call Friday. That night, in response to Major ...
Baseball, Big 30, Columns, ...
Jun 29, 2020
It reignited one of the most long-standing debates in baseball. Earlier this week, after a frustrating, months-long back-and-forth, Major League Baseb...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jun 29, 2020
I freely admit to my addiction to most things related to firearms. One of my special weaknesses involves admiring “classic” rifles and shotguns. I mig...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jun 27, 2020
Just the word ‘ snake ’ grabs a person’s attention. But, the word ‘ rattlesnake ’ strikes the individual, pardon the pun, with a primal response that ...
Columns, Local Sports, Sports
Jun 26, 2020
Back in the 1960s, every boy in our neighborhood liked to play baseball. If he had a wooden bat, an old glove, and a ball held together with electrica...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Jun 23, 2020
It came to a head on a mild night in St. Louis, inside a spectacularly spirited Chaifetz Arena, on Feb. 1, 2012. Andrew Nicholson, the St. Bonaventure...
Baseball, Columns, Local Sports, ...
Jun 20, 2020
Rhode Island’s topography leaves little doubt it’s one of the New England states. Largely flat and very rocky with low, heavily forested, rolling hill...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jun 18, 2020
Bronze disks, over a million of them, are permanently set in the National geodetic network across the country. Many can be found locally. So what are ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Jun 17, 2020
From the time I was just a kid, I’ve always enjoyed hunting stories. The first-hand accounts of the hunting adventures of friends and relatives, wheth...
Local News, News
December 31, 2025
Due to the New Year's Day federal holiday, The Bradford Era will not publish a print edition Thursday. The Era business office will be open until 3 p....
Local News
December 31, 2025
Each year The Era’s editors and reporters reflect on the coverage that was, compiling a final list of its Top 10 stories of the year. Windmill debate ...
Business, Local News, Nation & World, ...
December 31, 2025
(Editor's note: This is part one of a three-part series that will be continued in The Era's next two editions and online at bradfordera.com.) WARREN ...
Lifestyles
December 31, 2025
Dear Heloise: The letter about preventing carbon monoxide poisoning by getting a monitor for your home is a must but, it didn't go far enough. You sho...
Round the Square
December 31, 2025
LOOKING BACK: The Pompelon Club banquet, given in December 1887 with the Honorable Rufus Barrett Stone as Toastmaster, was an affair that was hugely e...
Local News, Obituaries
December 31, 2025
MAY 2024 24 - Paula Arlene Camp, 70, Halifax, Va., formerly of Bradford NOVEMBER 2024 25 - Charles William Callahan Jr., 84, Gastonia, N.C. DECEMBER ...
