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HISTORY: We couldn't help but fall into an instant infatuation with a website called The Fact Site and its "100 history facts they didn't teach you in...

HISTORY: We couldn't help but fall into an instant infatuation with a website called The Fact Site and its "100 history facts they didn't teach you in...

The 28th Infantry Division Remembrance Ceremony will be held in Boalsburg, Centre County, from noon to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, and is free to the public. Bo...

TODAY: Today is the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, Victory in Europe Day from World War II. From the U.S. Department of Defense: “On May 8, 1945 — known ...

BEGINNING: At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Un...

LIBERATION: Eighty years ago, on April 11, 1945, U.S. forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. From the United States Holocaust Memo...

On my recent visit to my daughter in Rhode Island, Julie wanted to know what activity might interest me on my birthday, it being Saturday. Since my bi...

KUTZTOWN — Former Bradford resident Michael P. Gabriel has published his fifth book, “The Canadian Campaign, 1775-1776.” The book is the second volume...

SOLDIERS: Prior to World War I, Bradford was selected as home to three important units newly formed under a restructuring of the U.S. Army. The old Pe...

Eldred native Nicholas Appleby ran 26.2 miles — with a 28-pound body armor plate carrier — in memory of two McKean County veterans. “I like to do some...

The morning of Dec. 26, 1776, did not start according to plan. The night before, George Washington had led 2,400 Continental Army soldiers across the ...

“Strive, Obey, Endure” is the motto of the 112th Infantry. Eighty years ago the actions of the local National Guard unit earned the Presidential Unit ...

ELDRED — The curator of the Eldred World War II Museum, Kyle Dunn, will speak at the Museum at 6 p.m. Friday in the Mitchell Paige Hall on "The Tale o...

TODAY: “December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air for...

Thanks for serving, but don’t tell anybody you’re a veteran. That’s a message that folks returning from Vietnam heard far too often. For Patrick Lyons...

MACHIAS, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus County Museum and Research Library has just released a new film detailing the remarkable history of one of its most si...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The Civil War battle of Spotsylvania Court House saw the most sustained hand-to-hand combat of the war and ranks as its third-...

KUDOS: We had to take a moment to pass along some well-deserved kudos earned by local members of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Our own Marcie Schel...

MORE: Pennsylvania is proud of its state parks, as it should be. In 2009, our state park system was recognized as the best in the nation by the Nation...

LAFAYETTE: Many places throughout the United States bear his name, including nearby Lafayette Township right here in McKean County. So, who was Lafaye...