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WITNESS TO HISTORY: Sometimes the significance of an event we witness doesn’t become apparent until later. In Dave Neill’s case, it was more than 50 y...

CONTINENTAL 1: It’s an idea whose time has come, again and again, for decades — a four-lane, limited-access highway stretching from Toronto to Miami, ...

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PRESS CLIPPINGS: Our area continues to get favorable — actually glowing — mentions from travel writers who visit here. The latest appeared Sunday in t...

OLD PRODUCTS: Examples of long-ago Zippo Manufacturing Co. products keep showing up on our doorstep. Last week we mentioned a lip balm called Zirenn t...

OWL UPDATE: Last week we wrote about Johnny Nelson, the former Era sports editor who is credited with giving Bradford High School’s sports teams their...

LEAF UPDATE: Prime time for leaf-peeping in our region is fast approaching, too fast for some who don’t want to think about the season that comes afte...

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“LITTLE CHICAGO”: Those two words probably make a lot of people in Bradford cringe and check their wallets. We were reminded of the ill-fated movie ve...

MORE EVIDENCE: Last week we said long-ago Era sports editor Johnny Nelson was the person who gave the Bradford Owls their nickname. It happened in 193...

SKIPPING STONES: We wouldn’t consider it a great spectator event for anyone who is easily bored. But anytime someone drives clear to Lake Erie to pick...

TENT WORMS: It’s a sure sign of approaching autumn when the Custer City Drive-in closes for the season and our trees get smudged with scads of caterpi...

UNDER THE LIGHTS: Port Allegany High School’s Gators played their first night football game last Friday, and that got us wondering about how long Brad...

RECORD ATTEMPT: It may not be as exciting as watching someone trying to set a world land speed record, but we’ll soon have a chance to witness an atte...

BUZZARD BRIGADE: Diane Schuler was driving along Minard Run Road one afternoon last week between her Foster Hollow home and downtown when she noticed ...

RAILROAD ART: Clayton Vecillio of Lewis Run is a man of many and varied interests and a treasure trove of historical information. He surprised us this...

BIG WEEKEND: Carole Longo Harris of New Hope returned home to Bradford a couple of weeks ago for her 55th high school class reunion, which coincided w...

FAIR MEMORIES: The recent McKean County Fair moved Cliff Hastings of Rew to stop by our office to share some memories of the fair from the 1960s. For ...

MORE ON BALLOONS: Here’s a bit of a postscript on the resident balloon launch form the Bradford Ecumenical Home and Chapel Ridge. When the recreation ...

BALLOON LAUNCH: At the annual picnic for residents of the Bradford Ecumenical Home and Chapel Ridge, the facilities’ recreation staff arranged a ballo...