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    Corralling children’s toys in the car
    Lifestyles
    Corralling children’s toys in the car
    May 03, 2025
    Dear Heloise: We travel with two young children who get bored if they don’t have a few toys to play with. However, our car looks so messy with toys sc...
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    Club news
    Lifestyles
    Club news
    May 02, 2025
    PASR-McKean The McKean County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees met April 30 at Togi's "Blue Room" Restaurant, Bradford, with...
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    Bridge results
    Lifestyles
    Bridge results
    May 02, 2025
    A four-table game was hosted by the Bradford Duplicate Bridge Club on Wednesday at the Bradford Area Public Library. Paige Drake and Dick Woodruff cam...
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    Try this precaution for lost phones
    Lifestyles
    Try this precaution for lost phones
    May 02, 2025
    Dear Heloise: People often write about lost cellphones and how they recover them. I have a message on my home screen that says: “If you find this phon...
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    Starstruck father can’t play it cool around celebrities
    Lifestyles
    Starstruck father can’t play it cool around celebrities
    May 01, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I am a 55-year-old father of a 7-year-old child. My social skills and experience are rusty due to graduate school and post-graduate trainin...
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    Club memo
    Lifestyles
    Club memo
    Apr 30, 2025
    ALLEGHENY OUTDOOR CLUB and friends will hike at Long Point State Park near Bemus, N.Y., on Sunday. Bev Creed will lead the easy to moderate hike of ap...
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    ‘Relationship’ involves sending money in one direction
    Lifestyles
    ‘Relationship’ involves sending money in one direction
    Apr 30, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I have been in a text relationship for nearly a year. I call it a text relationship because we communicate solely through texting. Because ...
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    Club memo
    Lifestyles
    Club memo
    Apr 29, 2025
    CURRENT EVENTS CLUB OF BRADFORD will hold its spring luncheon at noon Monday at the Bradford Club.
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    Bookworm
    Lifestyles
    Bookworm
    ?Making the Best of What?s Left: When We?re Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered? by Judith Viorst c.2025, Simon & Schuster $28.99 192 pages 
    Apr 28, 2025
    The end is in sight. Not that you’re eager to reach it, of course, but it’s there. Never mind; you’ve got plans, a long bucket list, places to be. Sti...
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    Employee’s hours change when boss adds errands to workload
    Lifestyles
    Employee’s hours change when boss adds errands to workload
    Apr 26, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I started a new job a year and a half ago. It’s in a small office. My boss and I are the only employees. I enjoy the job very much, but the...
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    Avoid leaving items in pant pockets
    Lifestyles
    Avoid leaving items in pant pockets
    Apr 25, 2025
    Dear Heloise: One way to avoid items that get left in pockets — and I taught this to my children — is to put your hands in your pockets and push down ...
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    Bridge results
    Lifestyles
    Bridge results
    Apr 24, 2025
    Bradford Duplicate Bridge Club hosted a five-table game Wednesday. Cousins Jerry and CB Goodrich were first followed closely by Paige Drake and Dick W...
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    Zonta Service Awards
    Lifestyles
    Zonta Service Awards
    Apr 24, 2025
    The Zonta Club of Bradford held its annual Service Awards dinner Tuesday night at the Bradford Club. Throughout the year, Zontians have donated to a s...
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    Friend’s pain comes and goes, especially in parking lots
    Lifestyles
    Friend’s pain comes and goes, especially in parking lots
    Apr 24, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: My friend “Alma” has a handicapped parking permit. I never asked her why she has it. We regularly go for long walks, and she seems perfectl...
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    Doorbell camera captures parents speaking about daughter
    Lifestyles
    Doorbell camera captures parents speaking about daughter
    Apr 22, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: We were recorded on video and audio on our daughter’s porch, thinking we were talking to each other privately. We were discussing how hurt ...
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    Fortune cookies delight guests
    Lifestyles
    Fortune cookies delight guests
    Apr 22, 2025
    Dear Heloise: I went online to learn how to make fortune cookies (it’s not difficult), and on a piece of paper that was 3 inches long and a 1/2 inch i...
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    Second marriage deteriorates as reality becomes clearer
    Lifestyles
    Second marriage deteriorates as reality becomes clearer
    Apr 21, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I'm 58 and five years into my second marriage. We lived together a little over a year before getting married. I spent seven years as a care...
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    Grandmother thinks toddler should be more responsible
    Lifestyles
    Grandmother thinks toddler should be more responsible
    Apr 19, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I have a 16-month-old who has recently learned to walk. My mom was watching him one day a week while I worked part-time, but she ultimately...
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    Cleaning crayon off of furniture
    Lifestyles
    Cleaning crayon off of furniture
    Apr 19, 2025
    Dear Heloise: When a rambunctious child scribbled with a crayon on many parts of the back of the church’s choir room piano (including the black areas)...
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    Don’t pop the trunk to find your car
    Lifestyles
    Don’t pop the trunk to find your car
    Apr 18, 2025
    Dear Heloise: I believe you wrote a hint years ago about finding your car in a crowded parking lot — just pop the trunk! I use it every time I go to a...
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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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    Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge held with over 160 participants
    Local Sports
    Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge held with over 160 participants
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
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