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    Chance for flash flooding this afternoon
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    Chance for flash flooding this afternoon
    July 31, 2025
    The U.S. National Weather Service announced this morning that thunderstorms with especially heavy rain are possible this afternoon and evening. The he...
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    Robertson: Post-turkey depression
    Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
    Robertson: Post-turkey depression
    WADE ROBERTSON 
    Jun 02, 2022
    I was soundly asleep and instantly irritated at some level in my subconscious when, for an unknown reason, my eyes opened. My body was perfectly relax...
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    Robertson: ‘The Tank’
    Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
    Robertson: ‘The Tank’
    May 26, 2022
    Occasionally, you run into a gobbler too smart to fool. Scott Neely and I hunted one of these for three years. We nicknamed the big gobbler ‘The Tank....
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    Robertson: An opposition in all things
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    Robertson: An opposition in all things
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    May 27, 2021
    Opposition in all things is necessary for growth. As the prophet Lehi taught his son, “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things...
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    Robertson: Barred owls
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    Robertson: Barred owls
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    May 20, 2021
    The eastern sky began to lighten, the stars to fade, dawn was quickly chasing the night away. It was time to sound like an owl, a barred owl to be exa...
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    Turkey season coming
    Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
    Turkey season coming
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    Apr 22, 2021
    Beautiful bands of pink and gold streaked the eastern sky — the hills still black bulwarks against the coming dawn. As I waited a few minutes, several...
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    Robertson: Learning more about barred owls
    Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
    Robertson: Learning more about barred owls
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    May 30, 2020
    The eastern sky began to lighten, the stars to fade, dawn quickly chasing the night away. It was time to hoot like an owl — a barred owl to be exact —...
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    Robertson: COVID-19 has made for a silent spring
    Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
    Robertson: COVID-19 has made for a silent spring
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    May 27, 2020
    Well, the COVID-19 virus has really put a hurting on this country and changed how the world operates in every segment of our society. It has also thro...
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    Gobbler success — at last — for two area hunters
    Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
    Gobbler success — at last — for two area hunters
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    May 06, 2020
    As I have mentioned in earlier articles, people with obsessions — those who literally eat, drink and sleep their passions — are fascinating studies. W...
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    Robertson: Communication
    Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
    Robertson: Communication
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    Jan 06, 2020
    Communication is a mysterious subject, often difficult to obtain commercially or personally. The dictionary states that communication is “the impartin...
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    Robertson: Communication
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    Robertson: Communication
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    Jan 04, 2020
    Communication is a mysterious subject, often difficult to obtain commercially or personally. The dictionary states that communication is “the impartin...
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    Robertson: Why hunters quit
    Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
    Robertson: Why hunters quit
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    Jun 08, 2019
    My turkey hunting partner, Scott Neely, and I were talking the other day. We hadn’t seen a single hunter in close to two weeks. The only tire tracks o...
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    Robertson: Gobblers and perseverance
    Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
    Robertson: Gobblers and perseverance
    WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
    Apr 27, 2019
    Anyone who has read my columns on turkey hunting knows my feelings on the subject; spring gobbler hunting can be a long, drawn out torture! Many suffe...
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    A memorable Memorial Day
    Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
    A memorable Memorial Day
    WADE ROBERTSON Special to the Era 
    Jun 02, 2018
    I’d climbed into the truck as if drugged. I felt totally, completely, drained; just stepping up into the truck was an effort and all that seemed to ma...
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    Last half of gobbler season provides great opportunity
    Columns, National Sports, Outdoors, ...
    Last half of gobbler season provides great opportunity
    CHARLIE BURCHFIELD Special to The Era 
    May 24, 2018
    From one year to the next a small percentage of hunters have questioned the opening date for hunting gobblers. Some believe the PA season should be op...
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    Steelers training camp battles: Jaylen Warren, Payton Wilson hold on to roles; Yahya Black pushes for time
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    CHRISTOPHER CARTER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    July 31, 2025
    (TNS) —At the start of Steelers training camp, we focused on five key camp battles we'd watch. Now that we're a full week into training camp with six ...
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    Penn State football: 5 biggest questions as training camp opens
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    Johnny McGonigal pennlive.com 
    July 31, 2025
    (TNS) - Penn State football opened training camp on Wednesday after months of anticipation and buildup as the Nittany Lions prepare for a 2025 season ...
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    Losses for health care stocks help push Wall Street lower
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    By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA - AP Business Writers 
    July 31, 2025
    Stocks capped a choppy day of trading on Wall Street with more losses Thursday after an early big tech rally faded and a health care sector pullback l...
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    Pitt, Penn State to renew basketball rivalry
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    Pitt, Penn State to renew basketball rivalry
    Bill Hartlep The Tribune-Review, Greensburg 
    July 31, 2025
    —The Pitt and Penn State rivalry has been a much discussed and debated topic for years across Pennsylvania. Though the schools' administrators have no...
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    Appellate judges question Trump’s authority to impose tariffs without Congress
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    By PAUL WISEMAN and MATT SEDENSKY - Associated Press 
    July 31, 2025
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    Tim Benz: Sidney Crosby’s arrival was Pittsburgh’s most consequential sports event of the past 20 years
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    Pittsburgh Penguins Captain Sidney Crosby waits for the puck in this file photo. (TNS) —Wednesday marked the 20th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Pengui...
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