editor

Era staff claimed five wins in the 2025 Professional Keystone Media Awards, announced Friday by the Pennsylvania News Media Association. Era Managing ...

Breaking News: College liberal arts departments infiltrated by liberals. Engineering schools, not so much. Profs pompous; college kids self-righteous....

There’s an old joke that asks how one gets to Carnegie Hall — the answer, of course, is practice. The same answer might apply when one asks Johnsonbur...

Baily’s Beads, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s award-winning literary magazine, returns to an in-person unveiling and celebration this year...

At Friday’s Pennsylvania Associated Press Media Editors awards in Harrisburg, Era Assistant Managing Editor Marcie Schellhammer was honored with a fir...

MCKEAN ORBIT: We’re throwing it way back –– all the way back to October 20, 1849, when the McKean Orbit was being published in Smethport. What is intr...

One of the blessings of childhood is that you never really understand how hard it is to be an adult. I’ve made no secret of my child’s health concerns...

Gosh it’s hot. That’s certainly no surprise to anyone. It is July, after all. I want to share something that I found to be surprising. Last weekend a ...

I read in the news the other day that schools in the United Kingdom are replacing analog clocks in exam rooms because students can’t read them. I laug...

Baily’s Beads, the literary magazine of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, and student writer Shahada Thomas have both received awards from the...

I have worked in newspapers almost my entire life. It’s the only profession I have known. Yes, I had a paper route when I was 12. It would make a cute...

When my phone began ringing late one night last week, I grabbed it, concerned it might be my elderly mother or another relative in need of something. ...