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DRAFT: It seems we aren’t the only ones who have been inspired to do some historical reading. A reader sent us some information from “History of the G...

Congress Street was barricaded for a short time Wednesday night while law enforcement officials tried to take into custody a man — reportedly armed wi...

A tense standoff with an armed man barricaded in his Blaisdell Avenue residence Wednesday night came to a peaceful conclusion when the man surrendered...

A man is facing allegations that he frightened people Monday morning in downtown Bradford by carrying a rifle and pointing it. Bradford City Police st...

The Smethport Police Department investigated this motor vehicle accident in the 1100 block of West Main Street in the borough Monday night. The driver...

DUKE CENTER — The newly-formed Otto Township Cemetery Association received a "welcome present" of six lots in the Rixford cemetery from a lifelong Rix...

HISTORY : Curly Walters stopped by to give us some history of Bradford. It’s a sheet of information, all about Bradford in 1899. “The population of th...

WATCH : We had a call on Wednesday to tell us it wasn’t just Olean that had a watchtower for enemy aircraft in 1952. You may remember Clayton Vecellio...

The word “veteran” often is associated with an image relating to the military. However, Bradford VFW Post 212’s Ron Peters, Pennsylvania Department of...

PORT ALLEGANY — Veterans and their families are invited to attend the Veterans Resource Fair from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Veterans Memorial Home ...

Two McKean County residents were among the Pennsylvania volunteers traveling to help with the Hurricane Florence Relief Effort. According to the Ameri...

S. W. Smith Memorial Public Library Director Mary Collier-Kisler, center, is pictured after receiving a check given to the library from five groups th...

COUDERSPORT — The Moving Wall, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be displayed in Potter County at the Cou...

SMETHPORT — The Patriot Day ceremony — not to be confused with Patriots’ Day — Tuesday morning on the steps of the McKean County Courthouse brought to...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — There was a battle raging in Allegany this weekend — between the Union and Confederate armies. Dozens of people were witness to a the...

HARRISBURG — State House Speaker Mike Turzai congratulated Rep. Matt Gabler, R-Clearfield/Elk, on his promotion to major in the Pennsylvania National ...

HISTORY : OK, so we’re kind of enamored with old copies of The Era. We went back to the turn of last century to find some items to share with our read...

The local area will have the opportunity to honor Vietnam veterans by visiting a replica of a monument created in memory of those who died serving. Th...

DUKE CENTER — From an early age, Bill Robertson had a keen interest in history, greatly influenced by his father. Speaking to The Era about his latest...

McCAIN : Bradford resident Donald Neal sends us poetry every now and again, and he wrote one about the late Sen. John McCain called “A True Hero.” We ...