News, PA State News
Oct 13, 2022
NEW YORK — An NBC News correspondent who interviewed Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman says an on-air remark she made about him having diff...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 14, 2022
I believe I spoke with Eric Boehlert, the conscience and gadfly of American journalism who died last week in a tragic bicycle accident, only once, in ...
News
Mar 25, 2022
There’s an old joke that asks how one gets to Carnegie Hall — the answer, of course, is practice. The same answer might apply when one asks Johnsonbur...
News, PA State News
Jan 22, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — An unhinged politician. A room full of reporters and photographers. And a .357 Magnum tucked in a manila envelope. These three vola...
News, PA State News
Oct 06, 2021
SOMERSET (AP) — Officials in a rural western Pennsylvania county say the elected prosecutor’s access to his office and the courthouse has been restric...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 05, 2021
In his book, “A Magician Among the Spirits,” Harry Houdini relates the story of the life and career of a sketchy spiritualist named Daniel Dunglas Hom...
News, Online Features
Jun 22, 2021
It’s the kind of assignment that changes a reporter. On Sept. 11, 2001, Bradford native Emily Longnecker had only been working in the field for about ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 18, 2021
Is there something missing from press coverage of the thousands of unaccompanied children who have illegally crossed the U.S. border from Mexico and a...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 28, 2020
When writing and researching articles, reporters rely on two elements. There are the anecdotal incidents that occur. What a crime victim saw, what a p...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 19, 2020
I don’t understand the world anymore. Well, that’s not right. That sentence would lead one to believe I ever really “got it.” What I don’t understand ...
Local News
Jul 07, 2020
In a June 27 article regarding state Sen. Joe Scarnati’s response to a Spotlight PA report printed by The Era, the senator has taken issue with The Er...
Local News, Online Features
Jun 27, 2020
Two investigative journalism organizations that have called out Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati on allegations of corruption have the state’...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 18, 2020
Several years ago, I was invited to attend a dinner for McKean County’s Foster Parent Appreciation Month. May is the month set aside to honor foster f...
Editorial, News
Oct 13, 2018
Working as a journalist in a small town is an experience like no other. On Wednesday, I was granted access as a member of the press to the Donald Trum...
Local News, News, Round the Square
Apr 19, 2018
NEWS: “Allied Airmen Score Stunning 84-3 Aerial Victory over Axis.” This was the headline of The Era on April 15, 1943. The U.S. was fighting in World...
Local News, News
Mar 29, 2018
ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Journalist and Virginia Delegate Danica Roem will visit her alma mater April 5, for a public talk on her journey from Bonaventure to ...
Local News, News
Oct 31, 2017
“Father into Thy hands I commend my spirit.” Those were the final words that Ralph Crossmire uttered before being jerked into eternal rest by 240 poun...
Guest Columns, Opinion
Sep 01, 2017
Earlier this week, Era Associate Editor Marcie Schellhammer questioned the stories journalists choose to cover, citing the hullabaloo some reporters m...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 26, 2017
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sean Spicer might owe Melissa McCarthy a thank-you note. The actress who mocked Spicer in her "Saturday Night...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Jan 12, 2017
OLEAN, N.Y. — Renowned journalists Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck will present “American Terrorist” at 1 p.m. Feb. 3 at Jamestown Community College’s Catt...
PA State News
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...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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...
Local Sports
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...
Local Sports, Sports
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...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
