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    VFW, auxiliary name essay winners
    News
    VFW, auxiliary name essay winners
    Marcie 
    Dec 03, 2021
    VFW Post 212 and its Frances Sherman VFWA announced the 2021-2022 Patriot’s Pen student essay contest winners. Maranda Davis, 12, a 7th grader attendi...
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    Bradford 2021 Quick Chess Championship held Wednesday
    Lifestyle
    Bradford 2021 Quick Chess Championship held Wednesday
    Nov 05, 2021
    The annual Scholastic Quick Chess Championship was held in the cafeteria and library at School Street Elementary School on Wednesday evening. In the N...
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    BACA students brighten downtown with chalk drawings
    News, Online Features
    BACA students brighten downtown with chalk drawings
    RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
    May 27, 2021
    As soon as he was given the OK, William Bailey, chalk in hand, jumped to his task: drawing a mint candy on the Main Street sidewalk. William and his c...
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    Forest Service expands ‘every kid outdoors’ program
    Local News
    Forest Service expands ‘every kid outdoors’ program
    Marcie 
    Nov 24, 2020
    WARREN — The USDA Forest Service announced it will expand its Every Kid Outdoors Program to offer fourth- and fifth-grade students and their family me...
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    Fretz Middle School to offer virtual meetings for parents
    Local News
    Fretz Middle School to offer virtual meetings for parents
    Marcie 
    Aug 17, 2020
    Floyd C. Fretz Middle School will offer several virtual meetings for parents of students who will be attending Fretz this school year for either in pe...
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    Fretz takes first at State Chess Championships
    Bradford, Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Fretz takes first at State Chess Championships
    Mar 13, 2020
    The Bradford teams had a phenomenal state chess championship in Gettysburg. Floyd C. Fretz Middle School claimed first place overall in the elementary...
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    Fretz 8th grade parents meeting set
    Local News
    Fretz 8th grade parents meeting set
    Marcie 
    Feb 19, 2020
    An informational meeting regarding the scheduling of classes for the 2020-21 school year will be held at 6 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Bradford Area High Scho...
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    Fretz students bake bread to donate to Friendship Table
    Local News, Online Features
    Fretz students bake bread to donate to Friendship Table
    Marcie 
    Oct 24, 2019
    Seventh graders at Floyd C. Fretz Middle School took part in a program that taught them how to make bread to share with the community. The students ha...
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    Second grade students combine learning and life
    Local News, News, Online Features
    Second grade students combine learning and life
    FRAN DE LANCEY delancey401@yahoo.com 
    Apr 18, 2019
    SMETHPORT — This year, the second graders at the Smethport Area Elementary School are combining their classroom studies with real life experiences. Th...
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    CCHS students conduct community heart & soul interviews
    Entertainment, Lifestyle, News
    CCHS students conduct community heart & soul interviews
    Feb 23, 2019
    EMPORIUM — Walt Disney once said, “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.” Using this ideal as motivating inspiration, members of...
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    Bradford team wins Pioneer Chess Fall Classic
    Local News, News
    Bradford team wins Pioneer Chess Fall Classic
    Dec 04, 2018
    Bradford’s elementary chess team captured first place in the elementary section of the annual event conducted at Pioneer High School, County Line Road...
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    Learning Center students give back this holiday season
    Local News, News
    Learning Center students give back this holiday season
    DANIELLA GRIESBAUM Era Reporter bradford.era.daniella@gmail.com 
    Nov 21, 2018
    For the second year in a row, elementary students, under the guidance of educator Amber Brien, helped organize a food drive to benefit the less-fortun...
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    Smethport elementary students to send letters from home
    Local News, News, Round the Square
    Smethport elementary students to send letters from home
    FRAN DE LANCEY Era Corresponden delancey401@yahoo.com 
    Oct 20, 2018
    SMETHPORT — Responding to a request from the Smethport Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2497 Auxiliary, fifth-graders at the Smethport Area Elementary Sc...
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    Fretz 8th grade parents meeting set
    Local News, News
    Fretz 8th grade parents meeting set
    Feb 27, 2018
    An informational meeting regarding the scheduling of classes for the 2018 – 2019 school year will be held at 6 p.m. March 8 in the Bradford Area High ...
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    Special delivery: Students spreading love to community seniors today
    Local News, News, Online Features
    Special delivery: Students spreading love to community seniors today
    AMANDA NICHOLS Era Correspondent make.shift@me.com 
    Feb 14, 2018
    Valentine’s Day isn’t just a time of romance for couples, or an chance for dad to get out of the doghouse. It’s a celebration of love’s different form...
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    School Street students honor veterans
    Local News, News, Online Features
    School Street students honor veterans
    RUTH BOGDAN Era Reporter r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
    Nov 12, 2016
    Nearly 70 veterans were honored by name at a ceremony Friday morning at School Street Elementary School. Not only were students invited to the event, ...
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    Gates Chili students go snowshoeing
    At School, Health, Kids
    Gates Chili students go snowshoeing
    May 01, 2016
    Over the winter, Neil Armstrong Elementary School physical education teachers Glenn Pittman and Jake Johnson taught third-, fourth- and fifth-graders ...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    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...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    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...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    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...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    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...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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