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PHELPS, N.Y. — It was more than 40 years ago, but Mary Linehan clearly remembers the day her son brought home a trumpet for the first time. “When kids...

The community will have an opportunity to help a veteran in need during a benefit performance Saturday at the Allegany American Legion Post 892 on Rou...

GENEVA, N.Y. — At least one Genevan will be in attendance Jan. 20 when Donald J. Trump is inaugurated as our nation’s 45th President. Thomas Schmitt o...

MOUNT JEWETT — A Veteran Resource Fair will be held from 5:30 to 7: 30 p.m. Jan. 18 hosted by the Mount Jewett VFW and American Legion at 61 E. Main S...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., professor of journalism and mass communication at St. Bonaventure University, recently appeared on a national...

Caring for our nation’s veterans and their families continues to be the guiding mission of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — a m...

In an effort to ensure area veterans receive the services and support they need, state Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, will host veterans service r...

SAND PUMPINGS: A reader recently suggested we look back at some of the old “Sand Pumpings” columns that ran in The Era before “Round the Square” was e...

The last couple of years have brought several new faces to the group of men and women who are charged with protecting the Bradford area. With local po...

WASHINGTON — The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. T...

A department service officer from the American Legion will be at American Legion Post #108 at 22 Pine St. in Bradford from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday t...

"To change anything in the Navy is like punching a feather bed. You punch it with your right and you punch it with your left until you are finally exh...

Smethport American Legion Commander Pat Miesowitz stands behind the new horseshoe bar, one of the various projects that was part of the recent renovat...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Veterans of World War II and the Korean War residing at Absolut Care of Allegany were thanked for their service to the country when a...

REMEMBERING DEC. 7: We were fortunate that reader Donald Neal shared his recollection of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Donald writes, “I remember the da...

SMETHPORT (EC) — An open house at 6 p.m. Saturday will highlight the grand opening of the remodeled club room at the Bucktail Post #138 Smethport Amer...

RIVER OF THE YEAR: Linda Devlin, executive director of the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau, reminded us there is still a little time left to...

COMMEMORATION: Kegan Z. Mahon of Port Allegany shared this poem he wrote Wednesday, the day of the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Kegan ...

One of the Obama administration's core competencies is suspending pipeline projects with no cause. It will leave office with another notch in its belt...

Robert Sherer served aboard a landing ship, Tank, with the U.S. Naval Amphibious Forces, a unit that played key roles in some of the battles that chan...