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HELP FROM ABOVE: Mary Williams was only recently married in the 1970s when she and her husband, Ed Mockaitis, were students at Mansfield State Univers...

ANOTHER COXY: Doris Wilcox of Duke Center called with a postscript to our columns about Levi “Coxy” Wilcox, a daredevil of the oil fields who did head...

CROSSWALKS: A couple of readers have apparently taken offense at our criticism of some drivers who ignore the crosswalks on Boylston Street, and of ou...

FLOWER FORECAST: We’re always interested in folklore surrounding long-term weather forecasts, like reading woolly worms to predict the severity of win...

A VET’S STORY: With all the solemnity at Veterans Day observances on Monday, a visit from Robert Vincich of Derrick Road was a change of pace. Robert,...

VETERANS DAY: We hadn’t planned to attend the Veterans Day Mass at St. Bernard Catholic Church on Sunday, but when someone like 90-year-old Elmer DeLu...

UPSIDE DOWN: Darell D. Harris of Oswayo dropped us a note last week to tell us our item about Mike Paterniti and his Headstands for Humanity charity r...

CAMP STORIES: With the onset of fall and the beginning of hunting seasons, we’ve noticed more activity around seasonal camps that have been fairly emp...

LOCAL CONNECTION: The story and photo on Page 20 of last Thursday’s Era jolted Angie Cipriano of Derrick City. The story was about a ceremony on Oct. ...

BUZZARDS’ SMELL: Back in August we wrote about a bevy of buzzards hanging out on a barn along Minard Run Road, apparently waiting for a meal of roadki...

UPSIDE DOWN: Mike Paterniti of Bradford is using his head. A Facebook stunt he started in June has blossomed into a new charitable endeavor that is bu...

As the weather starts to get cold, local food pantries are preparing for the upcoming holidays, which is a busy time of year for giving. While local f...

WAR MEMORIES: As a 9-year-old in 1942, Jim Randolph was too young to know much about the global upheaval of World War II. From a child’s perspective, ...

WAR RELICS: Jim Randolph of Onofrio Street turns 80 this year, so he was a child of 9 back in 1942, when the world was gripped in war. He dropped by t...

WEST TEXAS SAILOR: For the past couple of days, we’ve been tracing the history of the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II and the experiences of ...

MARITIME SERVICE: With Veterans Day a few weeks away, Bob Smith brought to our attention a group of men whose service during World War II is frequentl...

TOUCHY SUBJECT: We apparently touched a nerve earlier this week when we mentioned local gasoline prices and how it seems Bradford’s price is always hi...

OINK OR QUACK: Maybe this has been around awhile, and we’re just hearing about it. Or maybe it’s truly a new product that just recently made its debut...

WOOLLY WORMS: We thought we were all through with woolly worm weather predictions, but an email arrived Wednesday that changed our mind. Carl Milks of...

STREET SIGNS: We must have started something last week when a reader asked us to get a definitive ruling on the spelling of Tibbits Avenue, which carr...