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CHURCH HISTORY: She has no idea why they call it the “usher’s closet” at Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church on Seaward Avenue, but Naomi Carlson, the...

APPLE TONIC: Here at ’Round the Square we frequently talk with people whose memories of years and decades gone by are, in comparison to our own, vastl...

DANCE PROGRAMS: The Bradford Police Department Annual Dance programs that Bob Slike provided for us contain a treasure trove of businesses that were i...

POLICE DANCE: Bob Slike passed along programs from Bradford Police Department annual dances from 1952 and 1960. The dances were annual affairs for the...

MECHANIC STREET: All our talk about the stores that surrounded the Clark & Humphrey furniture and appliance store on Mechanic Street in the late 1940s...

GRATEFUL HUMMER: Shirley Ostrander of Smethport passes along a story that lends credence to the tale of a cardinal we wrote about nearly a month ago. ...

MOTH IDENTIFIED: Judy Blanchard was correct in her theory that the huge bug she brought into our office on Monday was a moth. With a five- to six-inch...

MORE STORES: We had a number of calls in response to our inquiry about what store — or stores — occupied the space between the former Clark and Humphr...

One of Beverly Holmes’ favorite memories of her father was the day she went home from the hospital after having her tonsils removed when she was about...

BEAR UPDATE: Paul Monjaar told us last week about a bear on a mission in Foster Brook that was so intent on its destination that it passed within a fe...

OLD GLORY: Val Meacham dropped us an email to remind us to remind everyone else that Friday is Flag Day. She also provided a little background on the ...

TRAIL TALK: Mary Williams dropped us an email to say how much she enjoys the trails that have been developed by the Tuna Valley Trails Association in ...

BEARS GALORE: We continue to hear reports of bears hanging out in places you wouldn’t normally expect to see them. One recent example: Paul Monjaar’s ...

GRAD POSTSCRIPT: Tracy Keppel of Bradford called Friday morning to say how surprised she was to see her late father’s name in ’Round the Square. Her f...

NEW GRAD: Ed Cunningham didn’t have to walk down the aisle and across the Bradford Area High School stage to get his diploma Thursday night. He had a ...

D-DAY PLUS 69: Among the nearly 200,000 members of the Allied Expeditionary Force who landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, were 73,000 A...

RETAIL HISTORY: A story in Friday’s Era about the impending sheriff’s sale of a building at 39-43 Mechanic St. moved Nancy Tingley to drop us a note p...

TOP GRADS: When seniors at Bradford Area High School walk down the aisle at their graduation ceremony later this week, there won’t be any intrigue abo...

BIG BOOMS: We’ve heard some sporadic complaints from residents along Interstate Parkway over the past several months about loud explosions. These boom...

HAPPY SUMMER: If you’re reading this, you’ve survived a cool Memorial Day weekend, which we generally consider the beginning of the summer season even...