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    Holiday Bazaar to be held at St. Gabriel’s on Saturday
    News, Online Features
    Holiday Bazaar to be held at St. Gabriel’s on Saturday
    Dec 02, 2022
    PORT ALLEGANY — The Saint Gabriel’s Catholic Church Holiday Bazaar will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, at St. Gabriel’s Church, located at 20...
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    RTS – Shackett Letter
    News, Round the Square
    RTS – Shackett Letter
    Nov 04, 2022
    CHURCH: “The church is not a building; the church is not a steeple: the church is not a resting place; the church is a people.” The Era recently publi...
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    Open Arms to celebrate its 20th anniversary
    News
    Open Arms to celebrate its 20th anniversary
    Sep 01, 2022
    Open Arms Church will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Saturday, Oct.1, with a night of music and personal stories. And again celebrate with services...
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    Story Tour to visit Bradford High School in Nov.
    News
    Story Tour to visit Bradford High School in Nov.
    Aug 24, 2022
    Found & Favored Ministries will bring The Story Tour featuring the Allan Scott Band to Bradford Area High School on Saturday, Nov.19, 2022. The Story ...
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    St. Luke’s to hold Vacation Bible School
    News
    St. Luke’s to hold Vacation Bible School
    Jul 05, 2022
    SMETHPORT — Vacation Bible School will be held at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church from 9 a.m. until noon Monday through Friday, July 18 to 22, with a free...
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    Smethport church announces Lenten luncheons
    News
    Smethport church announces Lenten luncheons
    Marcie 
    Mar 04, 2022
    SMETHPORT — The United Methodist Church of Smethport has announced the schedule for the United Methodist Women’s Lenten luncheons. There is a new form...
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    Medical helicopter crashes near Pa. church; all 4 aboard survive
    News
    Medical helicopter crashes near Pa. church; all 4 aboard survive
    CLAUDIA LAUER and THALIA BEATY Associated Press 
    Jan 11, 2022
    UPPER DARBY (AP) — A pilot crash landed a medical helicopter Tuesday without casualties in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, miraculously a...
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    Ascension Preschool to reopen its doors after year of closure due to pandemic
    News
    Ascension Preschool to reopen its doors after year of closure due to pandemic
    KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter 
    Jul 09, 2021
    As a small, church-operated program for children, Ascension Preschool had been pulling in a steady group of children until the pandemic struck in 2020...
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    New pastor appointed
    News
    New pastor appointed
    Marcie 
    Jun 30, 2021
    SMETHPORT — The United Methodist Churches of Smethport and Crosby announce the appointment of their new pastor, Rev. Beverly A. Spore. Spore has serve...
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    Adagio Health mobile services available twice a month to area residents
    News, Online Features
    Adagio Health mobile services available twice a month to area residents
    KATE DAY SAGER Bradford Era 
    Jun 24, 2021
    One of the best-kept secrets pertaining to health in the Bradford community is located twice a month in a downtown parking lot with services including...
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    Former St. Joseph’s Monastery in St. Marys to be available as space for performing arts
    News, Online Features
    Former St. Joseph’s Monastery in St. Marys to be available as space for performing arts
    CHRISTINE HOLTZ erachristineh@gmail.com 
    Jun 19, 2021
    With the blessing of St. Mary’s Catholic parish and financial support of the Inez S. Bull Foundation, the chapel at the former St. Joseph’s Monastery ...
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    Open Arms sets second “Storyteller’s Live” event for Friday
    News
    Open Arms sets second “Storyteller’s Live” event for Friday
    Marcie 
    Jun 17, 2021
    Open Arms Church will host its second “Storyteller’s Live” event at 7 p.m. Friday. The evening will once again feature live music and testimonies, is ...
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    Smethport church announces Easter services
    Local News
    Smethport church announces Easter services
    Marcie 
    Apr 02, 2021
    SMETHPORT — The United Methodist Church of Smethport has announced services for Easter. Today, Good Friday, there will be a service available all day ...
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    Trinity Lutheran Church to resume in-person services
    Bradford, Local News, News
    Trinity Lutheran Church to resume in-person services
    Mar 10, 2021
    SMETHPORT — Trinity Lutheran Church on Fulton Street in Smethport will resume in-person worship services beginning at 9 a.m. this Sunday. The church w...
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    Bradford woman charged with alleged $23K theft from church
    Bradford, Crime, Local News, ...
    Bradford woman charged with alleged $23K theft from church
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Dec 31, 2020
    A Bradford woman has been charged with allegedly taking over $23,000 from the First Baptist Church of Port Allegany while working as the church’s fina...
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    Spiritually Remote
    Local News
    Spiritually Remote
    JADE CAMPOS 
    Dec 29, 2020
    Dwindling daylight shimmers through the stained glass and onto the pews of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in State College, Pennsylvania, on a Sunday i...
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    Christmas sermons offer messages of rejoicing, love
    Local News, Online Features
    Christmas sermons offer messages of rejoicing, love
    CHRISTINE HOLTZ erachristineh@gmail.com 
    Dec 24, 2020
    Attending church services on or around Christmas is a tradition held by many families. The Era reached out to several local area churches to see what ...
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    Local churches discuss Christmas service plans
    Local News
    Local churches discuss Christmas service plans
    CHRISTINE HOLTZ erachristineh@gmail.com 
    Dec 22, 2020
    As cases of COVID-19 rise around the world, many churches have had to make adjustments to the way they provide worship services, with some going to on...
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    B-Free Church to host fall church bazaar
    Local News
    B-Free Church to host fall church bazaar
    Marcie 
    Oct 06, 2020
    Combine a rummage sale, gift baskets, and a luncheon and you get the fall church bazaar at B-Free Church. The event will take place on Saturday in the...
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    CWU collects donations for Maternity Closet
    Bradford, Entertainment, Lifestyles
    CWU collects donations for Maternity Closet
    Sep 12, 2020
    PORT ALLEGANY — For their summer project, the 10 churches of Church Women United (CWU) of Port Allegany collected items for the Port Allegany Maternit...
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    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    Nation & World, PA State News
    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    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...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    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...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    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...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    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...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    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...
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