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Mar 11, 2013
A FITTING MONUMENT: We mentioned on Saturday the historic keystone sign that marks the intersection of Looker Mountain Trail and South Kendall Avenue ...
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Mar 09, 2013
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...
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Mar 08, 2013
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...
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Mar 07, 2013
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...
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Mar 06, 2013
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...
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Mar 05, 2013
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 ...
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Mar 04, 2013
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...
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Mar 02, 2013
CHUKAR SIGHTING: Perhaps those chukars mentioned earlier in the week aren’t as unusual hereabouts as we thought. For complete stories, subscribe to Th...
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Mar 01, 2013
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...
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Feb 28, 2013
TREES : Bruno Carnovale of Emporium loaned us “The Forestry Primer” published by The American Tree Association in 1926 “to mark the semi-centennial of...
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Feb 27, 2013
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...
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Feb 26, 2013
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...
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Feb 25, 2013
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...
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Feb 23, 2013
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 ...
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Feb 22, 2013
LOCAL CONNECTION :The “Amazing Race” TV reality show competition just starting features a team with a Bradford connection. For complete stories, subsc...
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Feb 21, 2013
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...
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Feb 19, 2013
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 ...
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Feb 19, 2013
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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Feb 16, 2013
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Feb 15, 2013
KEYSTONE: John H. Moffett of Kushequa faxed us the following observation: For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Edition. Please note t...
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