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LAST PLAY: Billy Joel’s “Last Play,” the film which is coming to the Main Street Movie House at 7 p.m. today, was featured in the Wednesday edition of...

LATE EASTER?: We would have to call this a late bloomer! For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Edition. Please note that the e-Edition...

SPOOKY TIMES: With Halloween fast approaching, we pass along a poem written by Susie Coffman of Erie, a former Bradford resident. Our thanks to her si...

THREE RIVERS: You might want to get out a map to follow today’s column. For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Edition. Please note tha...

LAST CHAPTER: “ ‘Here comes Sammy the Peddler,’ was the shout of children in the 1930s. That plus the yapping of dogs greeted the pack peddler as he t...

HORN BUTTONS: Those little round items we showed RTS readers last week apparently are everywhere in Bradford. For complete stories, subscribe to The B...

POST OFFICE ART: “First-class stamps cost three cents at the time. World War II was about to erupt. More than 17 percent of Americans were looking for...

WEIRD ONE: Get out your bug books. For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Edition. Please note that the e-Edition is separate from this...

TODAY’S ANSWER: Tom Schultz of Ulysses knew it was Potter County which was the location of Pennsylvania’s so-called Triple Divide of the Eastern Conti...

RED SOX: More on old-time baseball in the region. For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Era e-Edition. Please note that the e-Edition is sep...

LAST DAY: The newsroom is always happy to talk about the characters who populate Bradford, the meat and potatoes of their stories. But what about the ...

40&8: Dick Thomas tells us folks at the senior center were discussing a replica of a locomotive, mounted on a truck chassis, which at one time was a b...

CHARLES BERRINGER: We’ve been telling readers for a few weeks now about that kamikaze attack on the USS Franklin during World War II, a discussion whi...

P.O. ART: Maybe we’re the last one to realize this but the Coudersport Post Office is home to a piece of artwork created during the Depression as part...

OUTSIDE VIEW: Doris Young of Bradford writes, “Recently my husband and I were at Mystic Waters Resort playing shuffleboard. There was a young family t...

‘UTOPIA’: Betty Park of Emporium writes to us about construction of small homes for the elderly at the site of the old Third Ward School in Bradford, ...

LOCAL ANGLE: We have another local angle in connection with that horrific bombing of the USS Franklin off the coast of Japan in World War II. Bill Moo...

ON THE WEB: Now that it’s October, we can get in the Halloween mode. Denise Drummond passes along this photo she took of a spooky spider web highlight...

DIAMOND NOTES: In today’s column, Bill Brawand of Wilcox moves on to the Allegheny Mountain League: For complete stories, subscribe to The Bradford Er...

REMEMBERING: “The wandering years of the McKean and Elk counties’ baseball league brought many fine baseball players to the sandlot diamonds of Bradfo...