News, Online Features
Nov 03, 2022
Dave Feely knows something about receiving a special gift. The retired Bradford City Police officer, who went through successful heart transplant surg...
News, Online Features
Dec 10, 2021
Editor's note: Laree Sue Behan was misidentified with an incorrect last name in the original version of this article. The Era apologizes for the error...
Bradford, Local News, News, ...
Nov 06, 2020
Bradford’s “season of giving” has officially begun. The Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) Fund began the 2020 Christmas gift buying operation on Thursday wit...
Local News, Online Features
Dec 14, 2019
This year, 150 families and 84 seniors will have a gift to open on Christmas morning, thanks to the generosity of the Bradford community. That’s how m...
Local News, Online Features
Sep 16, 2019
A love of reading can be shown in many ways. At the 7th annual “Reading Under the Lights” at Parkway Field, the love of reading showed in the careful ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Dec 08, 2018
The students in Mrs. Angie Sheeley’s first grade class brainstormed ideas on ways they could help their community. Their top choice was to donate toys...
Local News, News, Online Features
Dec 08, 2018
The young mother held her child’s hand tightly as she waited in line at the Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) headquarters Friday to collect Christmas gifts ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Dec 07, 2018
Today, recipients of The Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) Fund will make their way to the former Goodwill building to pick up Christmas gifts from the commu...
Local News, News, Online Features
Nov 29, 2018
The Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) Fund’s volunteer “elves” are busy gathering Christmas presents this week for needy children and seniors in Bradford. On...
Local News, News, Online Features
Nov 08, 2018
McKean County President Judge John Pavlock was only 8 years old when he learned an important lesson on the big impact that small kindnesses can have t...
Local News, News, Online Features
Nov 06, 2018
The Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) Fund will officially welcome the season of giving in Bradford on Wednesday. Each Christmas, The ELF Fund collects the h...
Local News, News, Online Features
Oct 02, 2018
A celebration is always better when everyone can take part. With that sentiment in mind, The Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) Fund is seeking applications f...
Local News, News, Online Features
Sep 08, 2018
As the sun went down, families came out in full-force to take part in the sixth annual “Reading Under the Lights” at Parkway Field on Friday night. Br...
Local News, News, Online Features
Sep 05, 2018
Families will once again snuggle on blankets with a good book when the sixth-annual Reading Under the Lights event is held at Parkway Field behind the...
Local News, News, Online Features
Mar 16, 2018
Imagine a teenager preparing for an interview — and experiencing some sort of butterflies. This feeling was common among Bradford Area High School jun...
Local News, News, Online Features
Mar 02, 2018
They’ve helped install roofs on houses and moved homeless in their first apartment or home. And they’ve done the work as a hand up, not a hand out. Pr...
Local News, News, Online Features
Dec 09, 2017
The high cost of rent, natural gas and electricity would have put a crimp in Christmas for one area woman ––if not for The Era’s Less Fortunate Fund. ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Nov 17, 2017
The Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) Fund invited members of the community to kick off the holiday season with the annual Festival of Trees on Thursday. The...
Local News, News, Online Features
Oct 31, 2017
It’s fitting that the weather has teased Bradford with snow this week. Along with the coming of cold nights is the coming of The Era’s Less Fortunate ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Oct 03, 2017
There’s a chill in the air this week, which means the holiday season is quickly approaching. It’s also the time The Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) Fund be...
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...
