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A FITTING MONUMENT: We mentioned on Saturday the historic keystone sign that marks the intersection of Looker Mountain Trail and South Kendall Avenue ...

STATE MARKERS: At one time, there were more than 20,000 blue and gold keystone-shaped highway markers that identified towns, roads and other places of...

CLOSE SHAVE: You’ll have to forgive a large number of Bradford men whose coiffures are a bit unkempt these days. Longtime barber Mike Ross, who has cl...

CAUGHT NAPPING: We must have been asleep at the wheel when this information came into the newsroom or we would have passed it along earlier. For compl...

MARSHBURG BLAST: On Tuesday we left you with Tom Frair’s father, Jiggs, being knocked off his feet on March 8, 1953, as he spoke on the phone in the k...

BIRTHDAY BLAST: Tom Frair of Marshburg dropped in to share pictures and recount an event 60 years ago this coming Friday that shook Marshburg and his ...

OLD TIME RECIPE: Judy Leroy passes along this “recipe” she got from a friend, Donna Gocella, who got it from someone else. For complete stories, subsc...

CHUKAR SIGHTING: Perhaps those chukars mentioned earlier in the week aren’t as unusual hereabouts as we thought. For complete stories, subscribe to Th...

WATCH PARTY: Bigfoot enthusiasts now have a place to gather with their sasquatch-hunting brethren Sunday night to watch the airing of an episode of “F...

TREES : Bruno Carnovale of Emporium loaned us “The Forestry Primer” published by The American Tree Association in 1926 “to mark the semi-centennial of...

WAR GAMES : Bob Slike also remembers the 1940s war re-enactment a reader asked about in a recent column. For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradfo...

GUEST : Birder Gladys in Custer City sent along this photo of a bird who had taken up residence in her woodshed for the better part of February. For c...

MEMOIR: Alene “Lee” Sage of Bradford loaned us a book written by her late sister-in-law, Esther Robbins Hutton. Titled “Sojourn: A Family Saga,” it in...

GAS STATIONS: Derrick City resident Bob Flanders says his 1961 Bradford telephone directory lists up to 60 area gas/service stations within a 10-mile ...

LOCAL CONNECTION :The “Amazing Race” TV reality show competition just starting features a team with a Bradford connection. For complete stories, subsc...

REMEMBER : Retired City Fireman John E. Rimer wrote to ask if any readers recall details about three events he remembers as child in Bradford in the 1...

LOST OR GONE : Does anyone in addition to George Todd of Port Allegany remember a stone tunnel near a hand-cut stone railway bridge across U.S. Route ...

GAME TALK: First a contributor mentioned playing Kick the Can. Then, Parker Brothers announced the retiring of the flat iron token in Monopoly board g...

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KEYSTONE: John H. Moffett of Kushequa faxed us the following observation: For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Edition. Please note t...