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Bradford Regional Medical Center submits closure notice; transitioning to outpatient care center

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Bradford Regional Medical Center submits closure notice; transitioning to outpatient care center

Transitioning to outpatient care center

By SARA FURLONG news@bradfordera.com

February 17, 2026

(Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional information available from hospital officials and state Rep. Martin Causer Tuesday afterno...

Don’t skip immunizations

Opinion, Сolumns

Don’t skip immunizations

Aug 31, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a series of setbacks to children’s health. For most of last year, pediatricians reported that parents concerned abo...

Bradford Library requires masks

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Bradford Library requires masks

Marcie

Aug 31, 2021

In response to McKean County’s reported high transmission rate of the coronavirus, the Bradford Library is reinstating the mask requirement for all li...

The state of our health care

Opinion, Сolumns

The state of our health care

Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com

Aug 30, 2021

This is a time of year which I dread. It’s a happy time for one reason, my mother’s birthday. This year is the big 2-9 — well, the 62nd anniversary of...

Pa. lawmaker: Allow kids 14 and older to get vaccine without parental consent

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Pa. lawmaker: Allow kids 14 and older to get vaccine without parental consent

JULIAN ROUTH Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Aug 27, 2021

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A state lawmaker in Allegheny County will soon introduce a bill to give teenagers the option to supersede the will of their vaccine...

Honor Trump, get vaccinated

Opinion, Сolumns

Honor Trump, get vaccinated

Aug 27, 2021

Former President Donald Trump experienced something new during his rally in Mobile, Alabama, Saturday night: He was briefly booed. That never happens ...

No vaccine excuses now

Opinion, Сolumns

No vaccine excuses now

Aug 26, 2021

In December 2020, the first shots in the war against covid-19 were fired into the arms of health care workers with the emergency-use authorization of ...

ADAS giving out Narcan for overdose awareness day

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ADAS giving out Narcan for overdose awareness day

Marcie

Aug 26, 2021

International Overdose Awareness Day is observed every Aug. 31. It is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdoses. Alcohol & Drug Abuse Servi...

Raise insurance rates on unvaccinated

Opinion, Сolumns

Raise insurance rates on unvaccinated

Aug 25, 2021

Health insurance companies today can legally charge smokers up to 50% more in premiums than non-smokers, based on the simple fact that smokers have ma...

Blood drive set in Port Allegany

Entertainment

Blood drive set in Port Allegany

Marcie

Aug 25, 2021

A blood drive has been scheduled from 1 to 5 p.m. Aug. 30 at the Port Allegany VMI. Community members are encouraged to donate blood at the Community ...

Memorial service for COVID victims held at the Church of the Ascension

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Memorial service for COVID victims held at the Church of the Ascension

KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter

Aug 25, 2021

During the past 18 months, a number of area families were unable to mourn loved ones who died from COVID-19 in the hospital or nursing home due to loc...

Travelers to U.S. should be vaccinated

Opinion, Сolumns

Travelers to U.S. should be vaccinated

Aug 24, 2021

Plans are being developed to require vaccination against COVID-19 for all would-be foreign travelers to America. It’s just sensible. First reported ea...

Blood drive set

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Blood drive set

Marcie

Aug 24, 2021

ConnectLife will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. on Thursday at Bradford Regional Medical Center in Education Center Room B. The need for dono...

McKean County in substantial risk of transmission of COVID-19

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McKean County in substantial risk of transmission of COVID-19

CHRISTINE HOLTZ choltz@bradfordera.com

Aug 24, 2021

McKean County is considered to be at substantial risk of transmission of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID D...

Debating masks in schools

Opinion, Сolumns

Debating masks in schools

Aug 23, 2021

How is it that a commonsense health protocol — the wearing of a mask — has become a figurative hill to die on when refusing to wear a mask actually co...

Western Pa. serves as research site for new test to detect Lyme disease

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Western Pa. serves as research site for new test to detect Lyme disease

PATRICK VARINE The Tribune-Review, Greensburg/TNS

Aug 22, 2021

The difficulty of diagnosing early acute Lyme disease makes things doubly frustrating for Pennsylvanians, who live in a state that has consistently ra...

Deniers and resisters and their attendant sorrows

Opinion, Сolumns

Deniers and resisters and their attendant sorrows

GENE LYONS

Aug 21, 2021

During the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic, my brother and I congratulated each other that we had little to fear. Descended from hardy Irish peasa...

Cigarette Smoking and Stress Relief

Health

Cigarette Smoking and Stress Relief

Aug 19, 2021

Rather than relying on a cigarette when you feel anxious or overburdened, try utilizing alternative techniques to reduce feelings of stress. People sm...

Pa. teachers union: Schools should require masks

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Pa. teachers union: Schools should require masks

MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press

Aug 18, 2021

Pennsylvania’s largest teachers union on Wednesday urged K-12 schools to require masks in school buildings, a measure that state officials are encoura...

Search continues for source of poison as more cats die, become ill in Edinboro

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Search continues for source of poison as more cats die, become ill in Edinboro

TIM HAHN Erie Times-News

Aug 18, 2021

EDINBORO (TNS) — Borough police and Erie Humane Society cruelty officers are continuing to search for the source of suspected rat poison in an Edinbor...

Pennsylvania deer linked to COVID; Game Commission urges ‘ordinary precautions’

News, Outdoors

Pennsylvania deer linked to COVID; Game Commission urges ‘ordinary precautions’

MARCUS SCHNECK pennlive.com (TNS)

Aug 17, 2021

While nearly a third of deer tested in Pennsylvania carried antibodies indicating they were exposed to COVID-19, the Pennsylvania Game Commission note...