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GOOD THOUGHT: If it's really the "thought" that counts when giving a Christmas present, then why not try some of these ideas proposed by the Pennsylva...

IT'S TODAY: You know you're getting old when you can't remember your own birthday. Such is the case for Round the Square. We're almost positive the fi...

GIFT IDEA: If you have a railroad buff in the family, a great gift for Christmas would be the 2008 Salamanca Rail Museum calendar. In fact, the cover ...

TREE TIME: Dorothy D. Tracey of Claremont, Calif., born and raised in Kane and a resident of California for 50 years, writes: "Fortunately I get back ...

SPECIAL TRIP: Don't forget to turn on your outside Christmas lights tomorrow night. Bradford area senior citizens will be treated to a tour of the hol...

BLUE BIRDS: We have seen exactly one bluebird in our entire life and so could only express extreme envy when Susan Taylor of Port Allegany called us l...

MAIN STREET: One of the last shopping weekends before Christmas is about to begin. Before you head out of town, however, explore Main Street - you mig...

THAT PHOTO: "To tell all the people who wrote letters into the paper about the deer on the front page was very offensive to us hunters. I'm sure that ...

A SALUTE: Our recent thanks for our soldiers and sailors drew this comment from former Bradfordian Bill Weisenfluh of Ocala, Ala.: "Let us remember th...

A TREE: "Poems are made by fools like me but only God can make a tree." Joyce Kilmer, right? It's something to ponder when you're picking out your Chr...

DEER PHOTO: "I knew the day would come when, even in Bradford, someone would get upset with a picture of a hanging deer. This used to be a common site...

SPECIAL DATE: This is Pearl Harbor remembrance day. It was on Dec. 7, 1941 - the "date that will live in infamy" - that the Japanese attacked the Unit...

THAT DEER: "In my family, and my husband's family, we wait with barely contained anticipation to examine what our hunters bring home." Kristie Bentley...

SNOWY OWL: Shelly Crissman Hannon of Littleton, N.H., writes, "Holiday greetings from the Western White Mountains in Northern New Hampshire! I spotted...

FEEDBACK: Terry McGuire of Denver, Pa., writes about our item on the troops serving overseas: "As my brother prepares to go back to Iraq for a third t...

THAT PHOTO: OK, we'll admit our initial reaction was "Ugh" … but we got over it. We pick up today on the discussion of the Era's use on Tuesday of a d...

THAT PHOTO: "The deer photo on the FRONT page of the paper made me sick! What are you people thinking?! Some Bradfordians have small children who were...

SNOWY OWL: "While hunting in the Lantz Corners area Tuesday, though I didn't see a buck (or a doe for that matter), I was lucky to see a Snowy Owl lig...

AN OMISSION: The Era news staff, myself included, were chastised in a letter to the editor yesterday for failing to mention our soldiers serving overs...

IT'S HOMETOWN: Leland McCollough of Perry, Ga., who spent his formative years in Bradford, agrees there is something unique about Bradford. He writes,...