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    Coal miners are getting new protections from silica dust linked to black lung disease
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    Coal miners are getting new protections from silica dust linked to black lung disease
    MATTHEW DALY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press 
    Apr 16, 2024
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine wo...
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    Pittsburgh companies want a place for coal gas and the state’s other resources in hydrogen incentives
    Business, News, PA State News
    Pittsburgh companies want a place for coal gas and the state’s other resources in hydrogen incentives
    ANYA LITVAK Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Mar 29, 2024
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A slew of Pittsburgh area companies, trade and labor groups are advocating that Appalachia’s proposed new hydrogen economy can be b...
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    Grant awarded for Scaffold Lick watershed assessment
    Local News, News
    Grant awarded for Scaffold Lick watershed assessment
    Feb 26, 2024
    SMETHPORT — The McKean County Conservation District (MCCD) was awarded $164,181 to conduct a surface-water quality assessment of the Scaffold Lick Run...
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    RTS Letter 5
    Local News, News, Round the Square
    RTS Letter 5
    Sep 16, 2023
    LETTER 5: Today we have the last of the letter we’ve been sharing from Paul P. Lyon, who wrote to The Era in 1923 to share his insights about the Domi...
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    Unearthing our potential
    Daily Headlines, Opinion, Сolumns
    Unearthing our potential
    REP. MIKE ARMANINI 
    Sep 12, 2023
    Historically known as a hub of industrial innovation, Pennsylvania is now poised to enter a new era of economic prosperity through the mining and refi...
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    Hero or ‘creature to get rid of,’ Dr. Hayes made her mark
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    Hero or ‘creature to get rid of,’ Dr. Hayes made her mark
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Aug 26, 2023
    To the miners living in squalor in southern Elk County, she was a hero; to the executives getting rich off of Shawmut Mining and Railroad, she was “th...
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    ‘Dr. Betty’ to be honored with Elk Co. road naming
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    ‘Dr. Betty’ to be honored with Elk Co. road naming
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Aug 22, 2023
    Dr. Betty Hayes may not be a name that rings a bell to most, but her concern for public health in southern Elk County in the 1940s went all the way to...
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    Armanini, Kephart applaud focus on abandoned area mines
    Local News, News
    Armanini, Kephart applaud focus on abandoned area mines
    Jul 28, 2023
    HARRISBURG — State Reps. Mike Armanini, R-DuBois, and Dallas Kephart, R-Clearfield, are praising funding being targeted at addressing clean-up of Penn...
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    Grants awarded for environmental restoration projects
    Local News
    Grants awarded for environmental restoration projects
    Marcie 
    May 27, 2023
    HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced funding for 16 environmental restoration projects on abandoned mine lan...
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    William Byron wins at Las Vegas as Hendrick dominates
    National Sports, Pro
    William Byron wins at Las Vegas as Hendrick dominates
    MARK ANDERSON Associated Press 
    Mar 06, 2023
    LAS VEGAS (AP) — William Byron took the lead on the second-to-last lap of overtime to win the NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas on Sunday and put an...
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    RTS – Landmarks
    Nation, News, Round the Square
    RTS – Landmarks
    Oct 27, 2022
    NATURAL LANDMARKS: From the mystical Appalachian Trail which runs through the east — and Pennsylvania — to the natural phenomenon that is Mississippi’...
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    Casey: $26 million in additional mine cleanup funding
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    Casey: $26 million in additional mine cleanup funding
    Marcie 
    Mar 05, 2022
    WASHINGTON — On Friday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., is announcing Pennsylvania will receive $26 million in funding for abandoned mine land (AML) recla...
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    Accept challenge to help miners
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Accept challenge to help miners
    Apr 27, 2021
    Pennsylvania has vast experience with the gut-wrenching struggle to overcome the demise of dominant industries. It is an ongoing process more than 70 ...
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    ‘Round the Square for July 24, 2018
    News, Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square for July 24, 2018
    Jul 24, 2018
    RESCUES: Just recently, the world watched, transfixed, as crews hurried to rescue 12 boys and their football coach from a cave in Thailand. It wasn’t ...
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    First Fork Festival scheduled for Saturday
    Local News, News
    First Fork Festival scheduled for Saturday
    Oct 10, 2017
    The fifth annual First Fork Festival scheduled Saturday at Sinnemahoning State Park will feature local authors, artists, artisans –– and singer, songw...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    June 15, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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