Basketball, High School, Local Sports, ...
Mar 24, 2021
The basketball season has officially come to a close for Big 30 Pennsylvania schools, which means the end of the high school basketball careers for th...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 19, 2021
To give you some idea, my personal Road to the Final Four, as the TV announcers call it, began in junior high. My buddy Don and I were apprentice bask...
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
Mar 16, 2021
For all intents and purposes, he should be the villain. In a vacuum, Will Wade, the dapper and debonair 38-year-old LSU coach, would be an easy figure...
Local News
Mar 12, 2021
ELDRED — The Otto-Eldred School Board met on Wednesday for their regularly scheduled board meeting, discussing a wide variety of topics. At the beginn...
Bradford, Local News, News, ...
Mar 03, 2021
Lewis Run native Jake DeCasper, who goes by JD Casper, has auditioned for the 20th season of The Voice. The show began airing Monday. Casper is the so...
Baseball, High School, Local Sports, ...
Mar 01, 2021
KANE — Relief is something Kane’s Carson Whiteman has been feeling as he’s seeing his hard work beginning to pay off. This past Saturday was an exampl...
Football, High School, Local Sports, ...
Feb 27, 2021
It took just a brief text message for Bradford two-way lineman and Big 30 All-Star Ryan Hughes to unveil where he’ll be spending the next four years i...
Local News
Feb 09, 2021
McKean County controller Jody Bloomquist, a Republican, is seeking re-election. Bloomquist, of Kane, ran for the position first in 2017, winning the R...
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
Feb 04, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Matt McCall saw it, this kind of rare intangible, in the 2017-18 St. Bonaventure basketball team. “To me, the most impressive ...
Basketball, Bradford, College Sports, ...
Feb 02, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Dominick Welch had endured this kind of slump before. And this was another. The junior guard had just turned in his second don...
Basketball, Bradford, College Sports, ...
Feb 01, 2021
You’d be hard-pressed to find a college basketball fan who was ambivalent about John Chaney. A woman friend of mine, who couldn’t seem to remember his...
Basketball, Bradford, High School, ...
Jan 25, 2021
It’s an unusual basketball season in District 9 and throughout the Keystone State due to the ongoing circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Basketball, High School, Local Sports, ...
Jan 22, 2021
There will be no North Tier League this year for our area’s smaller schools. No D9 League for Bradford. No conferences of any sort. That’s life in the...
Basketball, Bradford, High School, ...
Jan 19, 2021
DUKE CENTER — Growing up as the youngest of five children, Chuck Bell recalls getting taken to plenty of family events for his siblings, playing with ...
Editorials
Jan 12, 2021
In pre-internet America, there was a clear division of labor between schools and parents when it came to policing children’s conduct: If a student mis...
Basketball, Bradford, College Sports, ...
Jan 07, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — As his night began to unfold, Jaren Holmes recalled the words of his former AAU coach. “Trust the reps.” As one shot after ano...
Basketball, High School, Local Sports, ...
Jan 07, 2021
With the start of winter sports in the Keystone State on the horizon, local basketball teams in the Intermediate Unit 9 bubble are eager to tip-off th...
Football, High School, Local Sports, ...
Jan 02, 2021
As a sophomore at Pitt-Bradford, Chad Saltsman knew he wanted to become a physical education teacher, but coaching hadn’t crossed his mind. That chang...
Bradford, Football, High School, ...
Dec 24, 2020
SMETHPORT — As seasons have gone by and coaching regimes changed over the years at Smethport Area High School, one thing has remained constant within ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 22, 2020
University athletic departments across America are struggling to fill revenue holes left by canceled games and playing in empty arenas due to the COVI...
Lifestyles, Local News, Local Sports, ...
August 2, 2025
Mast crops are spotty this year, except for acorns. Soft mast, like apples and wild cherries, seems to be minimal to none in most areas. Soft mast blo...
Round the Square
August 2, 2025
EXCITED: It's August — are you getting excited for the fabulous events in McKean County during this back-to-school month? It's Festa Italiana in Bradf...
Lifestyles
August 2, 2025
Dear Heloise: When hanging up pictures, it is best to drill a pilot hole into the plaster for the nail before hammering it in. If one does not drill a...
Lifestyles
August 2, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I made a terrible mistake moving 2,000 miles across the country to be closer to my grandchildren. In the past, I have always noticed my son...
Local News
August 2, 2025
EMPORIUM — Educational programs are on tap today at Sizerville State Park. Tracks and Traces is set for 3 p.m. at the Environmental Learning Center. H...
National Sports
August 1, 2025
(TNS) — Four years ago, the Pirates eschewed a traditional draft strategy and instead took Henry Davis No. 1 overall, using the savings to sign other ...
