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March 20, 2025

A search for happiness

It is amazing what lengths human beings will go to hoping to find happiness. Unfortunately, many of the directions this takes them are dangerous and destructive.

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Keeping focus on the fun

WADE ROBERTSON

May 21, 2025

Pop Hayes and I sat quietly in camp after a big breakfast of bacon, eggs and home fries, just the two of us. That’s a breakfast I loved then and still...

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Spring gobblers: Crazily unpredictable

WADE ROBERTSON

May 14, 2025

You must have to have a screw or two loose to hunt spring gobblers. You never know what can and will go wrong or when, to your complete disbelief, eve...

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It’s almost gobbler time!

WADE ROBERTSON

May 1, 2025

Can you believe spring gobbler is upon us once again? It seems to take forever for trout season to finally roll around and break winter’s deadlock, th...

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Lifestyles

Old friend reappears after years of no contact

May 16, 2026

DEAR ABBY: I had three close girlfriends in college. We lost touch with one of them more than 35 years ago. She has family in our area but moved to th...

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Local News, Local Sports, Outdoors

Spring rain growing record-book bucks?

By STEVE SHERK Jr. Special to The Era

May 16, 2026

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, one thing that benefits from a lot of rain is whitetail antler growth. So far this spring, we’ve had a ton ...

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Business News, Local News

Bradford High School Co-Op Spotlights: Nick Degolier, Lauren Perry, Adalie Haviland

May 16, 2026

Nick Degolier — Carpentry Nick Degolier is a senior in the Carpentry program and completed his co‑op at the YWCA, where he gained hands‑on experience ...

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Round the Square

‘Round the Square: They’re your oats

May 16, 2026

FRIEND: Are you familiar with a "pow wow man?" We're not talking about Native Americans; this is a tradition of folk magic brought from Germany. It re...

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HS Roundup: Smethport track competes at Districts, Port A softball records win

Jo Wankel

May 15, 2026

Softball Port Allegany defeats ECC, 17-15 Port Allegany’s Jaidyn Mahon drove in four runs on three hits to lead the Lady Gators past the Lady Crusader...

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