Round the Square
Feb 05, 2022
JEOPARDY: A few readers have called us up to see how we are at Jeopardy. The category was “For naught.” Here’s the answer: “This brand name of lighter...
News, Round the Square
Jan 21, 2022
ZIPPO SIGHTING: The new hype video for the Buffalo Bills for the playoffs has a cameo from a Zippo lighter. Released on Sunday, the video shows Steve ...
Business, News
Dec 13, 2021
Igniting a new flame in the gaming community, Zippo has announced an integrated marketing partnership with an esports pioneer, the Pittsburgh Knights....
Local News, News, Round the Square
Aug 03, 2020
PANDEMIC POEM: Era reader Jeanne Lowe of Eldred shared a poem she has written during the coronavirus. We are passing it along for the enjoyment of our...
Bradford, Crime, Local News, ...
Jul 28, 2020
A Bradford man is facing criminal charges after allegedly flicking a lighter next to firecrackers inside Keystone Fireworks. Richard D. Yovichin II, 6...
Local News, Online Features
Jun 11, 2020
On June 3, Zippo Manufacturing Co. produced its 600 millionth lighter, each of which has been made in the city of Bradford. The company had originally...
Local News
May 12, 2020
Zippo has launched a steel lighter design to replicate the lighters every GI carried — or wanted to carry — as the company’s way of marking the 75th a...
Local News
Jul 31, 2019
As creator of one of the most famous flames of all time, Zippo is intimately aware of fire’s usefulness — a force of nature to be summoned at will. Bu...
Round the Square
Jul 12, 2019
ZIPPO : An article published July 8 on FieldandStream.com focused on a familiar topic — Zippo lighters. The article was written by Ben Romans and titl...
Local News, Online Features
Jun 26, 2019
A spark of interest in Bradford’s history has flamed into a passion for Ron Orris, so much so that he has started up a collectors’ club for Zippo ligh...
Local News, News, Online Features
Jul 21, 2018
The Great Lakes Lighter Club lit up the Marilyn Horne Museum on Friday as vendors participated in a “swap meet” on Friday. According to Bill Kolk, pre...
Local News, News
Jul 19, 2018
Bill Kolk, president of the Great Lakes Lighter Club, is announcing that the Great Lakes Lighter Club Swap Meet has exceeded all other Bradford swap m...
Entertainment, Entertainment, Lifestyle, ...
Jun 22, 2018
The Great Lakes Lighter Club is returning to Bradford for its annual swap meet on July 20 and 21. This year it will be held in the 4th floor ballroom ...
News, Round the Square
Apr 03, 2018
APRIL FOOLS: With April Fools’ Day falling on Easter this year — and since we don’t publish a Sunday paper — we cut our readers a break from our annua...
Local News, News, Round the Square
Mar 13, 2018
TO DO : It’s nearly spring time, and people around the country are shaking off the winter blahs and looking for things to do. Pennsylvania’s tourism w...
Local News, News
Feb 27, 2018
Working in collaboration with Zippo Manufacturing Co., the Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center has commissioned a limited edition lighter, which i...
Local News, News, Round the Square
Jan 23, 2018
ZIPPO: Kathryn Gates of Mechanicsburg shared this fun Zippo sighting — along with a tip for a good book. Kathryn write, “So many Zippo references...he...
Local News, News, Round the Square
Nov 21, 2017
PLANES: Doris Galentine of Port Allegany may have an interesting connection to a veteran we featured in our column the Monday after Veterans Day. She ...
Crime, Local News, News
Oct 02, 2017
A Bradford man was arrested on allegations that he tried to rob the Choice store in Bradford at knifepoint on Saturday. Bradford City Police indicated...
Local News, News
Jul 13, 2017
A Bradford man has been charged with allegedly selling unreleased lighters that had been taken from the Barbour Street headquarters of Zippo Manufactu...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
PA State News
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...
PA State News
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...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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...
Local Sports
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...
