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HAPPY 100: One of our frequent contributors over the years has been Jim Piscitelli who marks the Big 1-0-0 with a huge party today. We’d be remiss if ...

TOP DOG: Talk about a combination of good looks and talent, this guy has it all. We’re talking about Robin, a 7-year-old golden retriever handled by S...

CORNER STORE: We bring you some poetry from the Feb. 5, 1910, edition of The Bradford Era. It’s called, “The Corner Grocery Store”: “When the wind swe...

FIRST ONES: We have good news today and bad news. Good news: A large flock of robins was spotted! Bad news: They were spotted in Florida … Kaye Campog...

4 SEASONS: “We wanted to put Bradford on the map.” That’s why Student Council at Bradford Area High School wanted to bring the Four Seasons to town in...

OUR LOSS: One of our first acquaintances upon moving to Bradford was Wilbur Williams, then a state “fish warden” who took particular joy in pointing o...

MR. GASKIN: Roger Eimer of Bradford remembers well the black barber in Smethport we wrote about in recent columns; His father was a barber in his shop...

SCOTT BROWN: Judi Fisher-Miller of Plainville, Mass., writes of her now-famous political neighbor: “Not often I get to read about one of my neighbors ...

DOG PARK: With all the empty spaces in an around Bradford, why can’t we have a dog park? Most cities have these enclosed areas which give dogs a place...

FOUR SEASONS: More today on the Four Seasons performing in Bradford in the early 1960s. David Hall of Arvada, Colo., writes, “The Four Seasons did per...

FOUR SEASONS: The answer is yes, yes, yes — The Four Seasons did perform in Bradford in the early 1960s. We’ve received quite a few responses to the q...

POST SCRIPT: We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention some comments by Jim Herzog of Smethport when he passed along the family history, “Smethport Memories...

‘SWEET TOWN’: A family of African-Americans growing up in Smethport in the early 1900s would certainly have interesting insights, and such is the case...

THE GASKINS: Having three children in the same family named top students in their graduating class is rare enough, but imagine the three being African...

WATER WORKS: Sam True of Bradford writes, “I see all of these little stories about our water. Most well water in our area is substandard. But this is ...

OH, ZIPPO: Bob Henretta called with an unusual Zippo sighting in the book, “On Hallowed Ground,” a book about Arlington Cemetery. In it, the author re...

CALL HOME: Here’s one call that was answered — and for a great cause. Debi Bigley and Valerie Meacham of the Frances Sherman Auxiliary informed us tha...

TODAY’S IDEA: Last week, we sang the praises of simple tap water as a method of losing weight. The information had been forwarded to us by Kim Benjami...

WATER WORKS: Kim Benjamin, executive director of Bradford Water Authority, had passed along an article touting water as a way to lose weight. To suppo...

WATER WORKS: Water as a way to take off weight? Believe it. Kim Benjamin, executive director of Bradford Water Authority, has always promoted the bene...