Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Oct 21, 2021
Last hunting season found me pursuing my favorite game bird, the wild turkey. I’d seen a flock hunting squirrels and knew where they should be. Well, ...
News
Oct 18, 2021
October may be winding down, but things are not slowing down at the Bradford Area Public Library. On Thursday, Nate Bottorf, owner of Aerial Imaging S...
Bradford, News, Round the Square
Feb 12, 2021
SNOW POETRY: Bill Robertson, like most of us, is annoyed with the snowfall this time of year, particularly at one specific time of day. He chose to pe...
Local News
Sep 30, 2020
GIFFORD — In “Saved to Serve,” Pastor Max Simms tells the story of his ministry through life’s realities and his advice to those considering vocations...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 28, 2020
When I was fifteen, I had a really miserable deer season. I shot up a whole box of 30.06 ammo without nicking a hair on a doe’s butt. When I couldn’t ...
Baseball, Local Sports, Sports
Apr 16, 2020
(Editor’s note: The following column from The Era’s Otto Township correspondent Jim Miller is in response to Bill Robertson’s piece last week recallin...
Local News, Online Features
Jan 28, 2020
With the recent release of his 50th published title, Duke Center author Bill Robertson has reached a plateau few authors have ever achieved. During hi...
Bradford, Local News, News
Aug 24, 2019
DUKE CENTER — After using a traditional publisher for his first 40 books in the historical fiction, poetry and horror genres, local author Bill Robert...
Local News
Jul 02, 2019
WELLSBORO — Bill Robertson of Duke Center will be featured at the Golden Afternoons program at 1 p.m. July 9 in the Deane Center lobby at 104 Main St....
Local News, News, Online Features
Jun 04, 2019
“Soul of a Hunter” may be Wade Robertson’s first book, but it is not the first time he’s shared his philosophical take on hunting. Robertson has been ...
Local News, Online Features
May 31, 2019
DUKE CENTER — Authors are naturally excited when their first book is published. One can only imagine how elated local and prolific author Bill Roberts...
News, Round the Square
Mar 20, 2019
POTHOLES: Here is one sign of spring that people do not look forward to every year: potholes. Duke Center author Bill Robertson said there are plenty ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Mar 11, 2019
Duke Center author Bill Robertson caught on camera this ice wheel that formed in the Allegheny River near Olean, N.Y. He saw it along the West River R...
Local News, News, Online Features
Oct 11, 2018
DUKE CENTER — Many of Bill Robertson's best horror stories have been published separately in Canadian and European publications, but the release of hi...
Local News, News
Sep 04, 2018
DUKE CENTER — From an early age, Bill Robertson had a keen interest in history, greatly influenced by his father. Speaking to The Era about his latest...
Local News, News
Jul 04, 2018
WELLSBORO — At 1 p.m. Tuesday, Bill Robertson of Duke Center will host the Golden Afternoons program in the lobby at the Deane Center for the Performi...
News, Round the Square
May 21, 2018
POTHOLES: We’ve had a couple of people get in touch with gripes about the condition of our post-winter roads. One reader was particularly concerned wi...
Local News, News, Online Features
Jan 24, 2018
DUKE CENTER — Since people like to be frightened evidenced by the popularity of horror stories and movies, Bill Robertson's latest book, "Icicles," wi...
Local News, News, Round the Square
Dec 16, 2017
TREE TRIMMING: Duke Center author Bill Robertson shared this funny anecdote about his childhood Christmases. “Trimming the Tree” “My sister and I had ...
Local News, News, Round the Square
Aug 18, 2017
GRAVE ART: Bill Robertson of Duke Center wrote down some of his thoughts after a photo shoot last Sunday at Oak Hill Cemetery. Bill is the author of “...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
