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The biggest day for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign happens from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday — Match Day. “We are hoping it will be a big boost...

Observant Jews around the world are celebrating Hanukkah, a festival of lights. It was instituted to celebrate the liberation of Israel from dominatio...

The weather outside is frightful, the fire is so delightful — it’s the only happy time of winter, in my opinion — the countdown to Christmas. As I’ve ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson announced Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but said he’s facing the future with faith and ...

In December 1966, the CBS special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” premiered. At the time, it was “the most expensive half-hour ever put on TV” due to...

He was the neighborhood butcher at the local grocery store, that is until his health started to falter. “There were times I couldn’t stand up,” Mark L...

The 2023 St. Gabriel’s Christmas Bazaar will be held Saturday at the Parish Center, 203 Arnold Ave. in Port Allegany. There will be basket raffles, ch...

Jehovah’s Witnesses are well-known for proselytizing door-to-door and handing out their literature on city streets. Less known to the general public, ...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Thousands welcomed Santa Claus right down Santa Claus Lane on Friday. Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce officials estimated the cro...

Oh, Thanksgiving! Just thinking of this special holiday brings so many precious memories flooding back to my mind. As a youth, our Thanksgivings were ...

St. Bernard School closed its doors, officially, at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. Officials had determined that the declining enrollment did n...

The Pilgrims were, to use the hostile term applied to Israelis in the debate over Palestine, unquestionably “settler colonialists.” As such, they are ...

PHILADELPHIA(TNS) — TheLehigh Valleyschool district that tried to ban an after-schoolSatan Club from meeting on its property earlier this year has agr...

B-Free Church will host a birthday party for Jesus from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Dec. 2. The party will be held in the church’s fellowship hall, 18 Boylston St....

The old conventional wisdom was that the U.S. couldn’t be too pro-Israel for fear of inflaming “the Arab street.” The new conventional wisdom will hav...

SMETHPORT — Christian Community Services of Smethport will sponsor an ecumenical Thanksgiving service at St. Elizabeth’s of Hungary on Main Street at ...

It seems a man protesting near Bradford Post Office unknowingly caused a bit of a ballyhoo Tuesday. Bradford City Police said at 4:24 p.m. Tuesday, th...

The former Bradford Central Christian High School and St. Bernard Elementary School demolition was well underway Tuesday. Era reporter Mandy Colosimo ...

Most have seen the iconic photo of the snow on the ground at Arlington National Cemetery and a green wreath with a red velvet bow adorning each graves...

FINAL INSPECTION is a poem offered in remembrance to the soldiers who didn’t make it home from the service. As we celebrate the lives of those who ser...