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CYCLONE — Books can be treasure chests for keeping important items safe. For centuries, such items as family photos to personal cards and letters, new...

AIRPORT : We enjoy looking back through Era archives, and sharing some of the gems we find. In October of 1941, officials with the City of Bradford we...

SMETHPORT (EC) — There is good news for McKean County recyclers. It’s been one year since the compactor at the McKean County Recycling Center began op...

Era readers will notice some changes on the comics page, which is B-5 in today’s edition. To make room for two additional word puzzles on the page, “J...

There is little so daunting, or so promising, as a blank slate. My childhood home has a large chalkboard in the dining room, likely saved from an old ...

JOHNSONBURG — The streets of Johnsonburg were lined with family and friends eagerly awaiting to greet their new Senior League state champions Monday e...

Let’s start with the obvious: The Pirates’ pitching staff has been bad as of late, particularly the bullpen. As a whole, Pittsburgh’s relievers have a...

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

An African proverb says, “Initiate the boys, or they’ll burn the village down.” In the midst of an era where the national media spotlight has been poi...

There may not be such a thing as free lunch, but breakfast is the most important meal of the day, anyway. The Bradford Area Lions Club is offering a c...

The Bradford Landmark Society, Bradford’s own historical society, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Coincidentally, it is also Sally Costik’s...

As a child growing up in Bradford in the late 1800s, young Gertrude Elizabeth Curtis was the daughter of a local barber and an average student at Brad...

Thanksgiving is about so much more than football and food. This is the time of year set aside to reflect on what we are thankful for in our lives. Eac...

WAR: On Thursday, The Era will be bringing you a special edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. As a preview, we want...

EXPENSIVE : War time causes shortages, which in turn, cause prices to rise. In 1917, an Era writer told his opinion on why it was such an expensive ti...

CHRISTMA S: It’s just 77 days until Christmas. For adults, that likely elicits a groan. For children, the magic that is the holidays can’t come soon e...

HISTORIC : We hope readers are as enamored with the language used in century-old Era stories as we are. We took a look back at editions in September o...

HISTORY : For Labor Day, we are bringing you some news from 1908, when Bradford’s Mayor R.J. Hoffman wrote a letter to city residents about the celebr...

A former inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution-McKean has been sentenced for escaping from custody there in the 1990s. Ghassan Saleh, 66, wil...

The colorful tents, the sounds of music and laughter, the smells of fried dough and spaghetti sauce — it’s Festa Italiana time in Bradford. While the ...