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PLANT ALERT: Megan Panighetti dropped in last week to spread a warning to people who may run into a poisonous, shrub-like plant growing in the area. S...

HUMMER RESCUE: Lee Tyler of Eldred called last week to tell us about the rescue and resuscitation of a hummingbird that he witnessed in Smethport. Lee...

ON CAMERA: Mandi Wilton Davis, executive director of the United Way of the Bradford Area, was spotted on television last week during a Pittsburgh Pira...

MORE BIRDS: There’s more to the story of how the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology decided to hold its 2014 annual meeting next June in Bradford. W...

MORE COMPANY: About a thousand people are expected in Bradford beginning this weekend for the state Little League baseball tournament. Now, more arriv...

RAZOR HISTORY: One of our regular readers from Port Allegany called last week to get our help in finding some history behind a straight razor that had...

EELS REVISITED: You might remember Andy Heffner, who kicked off a discussion several months ago on whether eels still slithered in our local waters wh...

WORLDS AWAY: Jeff and Debbie Rhinehart of Eldred dropped us an email to let us know that their daughter Allyson was in Tanzania last week at the same ...

CHERRY PICKERS: Carlyn Seighman clued us in to something she hadn’t seen before in the nearly 30 years she’s lived in a log cabin near Farmers Valley....

MONSTER BEE: Jack Shontz of Cyclone called to tell us about a huge bee he found inside his screened porch last week. After looking on the Internet for...

ANOTHER LIGHTER: Bradford was the home of another cigarette lighter company a few years before George Blaisdell founded Zippo Manufacturing Co. in 193...

POLICE MEMORIES: Patti Neidich emailed that she’s been following our columns about the police dances in the 1950s and ’60s with great interest because...

BEE TREE: We have an update from our friend in the countryside outside of Smethport who reported this spring that a honeysuckle bush that usually buzz...

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INDEPENDENCE DAY: Don Ross has been writing poems and sharing them with regulars at the Smethport Senior Center for years. Whatever the topic, says se...

POLICE DANCE: Our columns about the Bradford Police Department’s annual dances in the 1950s and early ’60s struck a chord with Sue Johnson of Fort Way...

WONDERFUL LIFE: Last month Daryl Williams died at the age of 90. His obituary ran in The Era , and even though his passing was noted, its significance...

PASSEL OF PISCITELLIS: It all started in on Aug. 15, 1906, with the marriage of Humber Piscitelli and Anna Carrara at St. Bernard Catholic Church in B...

GOOD OLD DAYS: Our recent mentions of the Clark & Humphrey furniture and appliance store that used to be on Mechanic Street reminded Cliff Hastings of...

FAST RESULTS: Our column on Wednesday about the Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church seeking descendants of its 1913 confirmation class got an immediat...