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MOUNT JEWETT — Kinzua Bridge State Park will have a series of programs from Saturday to Monday about the bridge and the beauty of nature. At noon on S...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Senate Library is showing its annual exhibition dedicated to sharing the stories of Senate members who served our nation...

MACHIAS, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus County Museum and Research Library announces that its new exhibit, “Our Veterans, Their Stories,” is officially open t...

COUDERSPORT — A Memorial Day service, sponsored by the American Legion Potter Post 192, will be held at noon on May 31 in the courthouse square in Cou...

I’ve always thought that fishing has to be the biggest “gadget sport” I ever knew of. The proof of this is easily seen in the size of tackle boxes fil...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Graduating seniors who served as cadets in the U.S. Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) at St. Bonaventure University were c...

Whenever you are dealing with important, measurable information, you have to know that it’s accurate. Sometimes that means knowing that size and weigh...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania is poised to resume normal activities on Memorial Day, with one big exception — wearing masks. Gov. Tom Wolf and a legi...

SALAMANCA, N.Y. — As concerns about COVID-19 continue locally and across the United States and Canada, the organizers of the annual Marvin “Joe” Curry...

VICTORY IN EUROPE: V-E Day, or Victory in Europe Day, is the day the formal acceptance of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces by the...

Lucille McElwain Hughes, a former resident of Smethport who now resides in Colorado and a member quilter of the Quilts of Valor Foundation, presented ...

MACHIAS, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus County Museum and Research Library will host an event to kick off its new veteran’s project on Armed Forces Day, May 1...

SMETHPORT — Officials at McKean County Post #2497, Veterans of Foreign Wars in Smethport, have announced that traditional Memorial Day services will b...

There are thousands of graves the world over for fallen Americans who died on the battlefield of war, graves that have no headstone denoting the ident...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Jordan D. McLaughlin of Olean, N.Y., successfully completed four years of challenging academic, physical and professional military tr...

After two decades of war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has abundant justification for withdrawing all U.S. troops by Sept. 11. Yet his decision ...

SMETHPORT — In a report to the McKean County commissioners, Zach Pearson, McKean County director of veterans affairs, said the Erie Veterans Administr...

Last August, The Era reported on how the Maryland Air National Guard was planning on training pilots in low-altitude flights over the Pennsylvania Wil...

IN MEMORIAM: Each year, The Era publishes a special section of the newspaper devoted to the men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice, and p...

KUDOS: Patrick Johnston sent us a note of pride for his hometown, and we thought it was important to share it with our readers. Johnston wrote, “It wa...