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BIGFOOT?: Input abounds on that "creature" spied on the Allegheny National Forest that has been variously identified as a bear with mange, a fisher, a...

SURE SIGN: Don't look now but winter's on wing. Skip Riekofsky of Kushequa wrote late last week: "I just saw a flock of geese (6:35 p.m. Thursday) way...

TODAY'S QUOTE: "For the most part, officials love secrecy because it is a tool of power and control, not because the information they hold is particul...

TOO WEIRD: "Unusual weather? I have flowers blooming that normally bloom in spring and early summer - foxgloves, glads, petunias, irises and lilies ar...

AL RITCHIE: With today's casting call for extras in the movie, "Little Chicago," we thought it would be appropriate to dig into the archives for some ...

SO PRETTY: "Sitting on my porch on East Hall Road and looking across the Olean Road to the side hill at the beautiful trees. I wonder if even an artis...

HAVE A HEART?: If you or a loved one has ever had any heart problems, you might want to tune in to the new series on public television. So far, the ep...

MAC McDOWELL: We may have found the owner of that old pilot's helmet - and one heck of a story. You may remember we had passed along an email from a B...

TOO WEIRD: "Unusual weather? I have flowers blooming that normally bloom in spring and early summer - foxgloves, glads, petunias, irises and lilies ar...

SAY WHAT?: "State police in Clearfield County are investigating reports of two gunmen in the woods that prompted a high school to cancel a football ga...

OCTOBER ODE: "The woolly bears go cross the road, their backs of orange and black a sign of winter's length and strength to come. They inch across the...

CON JOB?: A couple diverse comments today on our report Monday on the pros and "cons" of bottled water when compared to tap water. Barney Snyder of Tu...

J.R. EVANS: Paul Laing of Damascus, Md., writes: "J.R. Evans & Co. will be missed in Bradford. I graduated from Bradford HS in 1956 and get back to oc...

DRINK UP: It was a couple years ago now that The Era conducted a water tasting on Main Street, pitting Bradford City water against one of the popular ...

TWO JOE'S: When the Temptations take the stage at the Bradford Area High School Auditorium next Thursday you won't be hearing double, but there will b...

BIRD HELP: If you've watched birds at a feeder over the years, you've surely seen changes - varying numbers of different birds through the seasons and...

THIS WEEK: What is the best invention in journalism in the past 20 years? There have been many such as the laptop computer, digital camera and cell ph...

DOWNTOWN: Joey Festa of Morgan Hill, Calif., has some thoughts and suggestions for the old hometown. He writes, "Days gone by. I think of Bradford oft...

IT'S HOME: Kristie Bentley of Virginia Beach, Va., reminisces: Sounds that mean home to me are oil pumps up Buchanon Hollow during the summer when I w...

THOMAS PAINE: "I enjoyed your recent editorial on Thomas Paine. It took me back to World War II at Mattishall, England, where the 388th bomb group was...