Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 02, 2022
I was looking for a hair tie. That’s how it started, my five-minute journey “down the rabbit hole.” I opened my purse and saw my tablet, and remembere...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 21, 2022
Fran De Lancey, beloved Era correspondent, school teacher, gentleman and dear friend to so many, passed away on Wednesday at his son’s house in Bethel...
Round the Square
Nov 20, 2021
RETIREMENT : We’re taking a moment today to report some news on one of our own. Fran DeLancey, who has been The Era’s Smethport correspondent for 43 y...
Сolumns
Jun 10, 2021
Emotions and memory are a complicated pair. I’m sure we all have cringe-worthy memories that make us feel a bit anxious, or forlorn. Or happy memories...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 06, 2021
They’ve come for Fitzgerald, and Salinger’s works. Publishers, schools, and parents and jerks. They’ve come for Papa and Steinbeck, Orwell and Kesey. ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 26, 2021
Just when you think you’ve heard it all comes a new viral conspiracy theory — and it’s a doozy. The theory: Snow is fake. Really. The Chinese governme...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 03, 2020
More and more these days, I find myself longing for the simpler times of childhood. I certainly wouldn’t want to be a child in this day and age, and I...
Сolumns
Aug 28, 2020
This weekend is an important date for my family; it’s my mother’s birthday. Shirley Whiteman will be celebrating the 61st anniversary of her 29th birt...
Сolumns
Jul 24, 2020
In the past few months of isolation brought on by the pandemic, I’ve had a lot of time to think and reminisce. I grew up attending Sunday school every...
Сolumns
Jul 08, 2020
If you could do one thing — an inconvenience to yourself — that could save someone else’s life, would you do it? I see questions like this on social m...
Сolumns
Jun 04, 2020
The other day I saw an acquaintance in the store. We exchanged the usual pleasantries, but when I asked how things were going, she said, “I thought we...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 20, 2020
Like most people, my family and I are getting a bit tired of staying at home. I live with my sister, who has been working from home, and my daughter, ...
Round the Square
Jan 14, 2020
CARDS : Today’s RTS is serving a dual purpose: recognizing one of our own, and letting others know how they can do the same. The Era’s own Fran De Lan...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 08, 2020
An odd piece of news caught my eye this week, mostly because I thought it was from a comedy or satire site like The Onion or Babylon Bee. It was an an...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 19, 2019
Every now and then, I see a story come through a wire service that intrigues me to the point where I need to know more. For instance, an Associated Pr...
Bradford, Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 20, 2019
The world is an odd place. We’ve all heard the saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” And it’s true. I was recently added to a group on s...
Сolumns
Aug 07, 2019
In my line of work, one meets fascinating people on a regular basis. In fact, it’s one of the things I love the most about the job — the people, and a...
Bradford, Local News, News, ...
May 18, 2019
At Friday’s Pennsylvania Associated Press Media Editors awards in Harrisburg, Era Assistant Managing Editor Marcie Schellhammer was honored with a fir...
Bradford, Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 18, 2019
Remember as a child, riding down a hill on a bicycle, the world flying by, exuberant with the wind in your hair, not having a care in the world? Easte...
Local News, News, Online Features
Apr 12, 2019
The Era’s Marcie Schellhammer, assistant managing editor, has been named a finalist in the 2018 Pennsylvania Associated Press Media Editors contest fo...
Local News, PA State News
June 16, 2025
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and state lawmakers are getting down to crunch time, with big questions still outstanding about how t...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 16, 2025
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania is closing another chapter in its quest to provide justice for millions of victims of the opioid epidemic. Attorney General ...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 16, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — President Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law, and for the first time in many decades immigration enforcement does not resem...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Pennsylvania's budget process is a byzantine effort that is critical to the functioning of the commonwealth but largely ignored by the public. The new...
Local News
June 16, 2025
ST. MARYS — Police report a Dagus Mines woman died Saturday as the result of a two-vehicle crash on South St. Marys Street. At approximately 4:45 p.m....
Business, Local News
June 16, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have increased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Friday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
