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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...

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 ...

Igniting a new flame in the gaming community, Zippo has announced an integrated marketing partnership with an esports pioneer, the Pittsburgh Knights....

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...

A Bradford man is facing criminal charges after allegedly flicking a lighter next to firecrackers inside Keystone Fireworks. Richard D. Yovichin II, 6...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Working in collaboration with Zippo Manufacturing Co., the Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center has commissioned a limited edition lighter, which i...

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...

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 ...

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...

A Bradford man has been charged with allegedly selling unreleased lighters that had been taken from the Barbour Street headquarters of Zippo Manufactu...