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SWIM SPOTS: More stories about the old swimming hole … George T. Howard of Peachtree City, Ga., writes, “My favorite swimming hole was located between...

TRY FUNGI: Call this a starter mushroom. While we don’t hesitate to put leeks and even fiddlehead ferns in our mouth, we remain a little leery of any ...

KIDS’ COMMENTS: It sometimes takes a child’s point of view to put things in their proper perspective. We got a big kick out of the many cards Elmer De...

TWO GIFTS: Two Christmas gifts turned up on our doorstep and we’re looking for the rightful owners. The wrapped gifts, for Destiny and Joshua, were fi...

MEMORIES: A. Buck Tantalo concludes his story on Bradford area swimming holes: “Big Rock Pool — this pool is on the road to Westline off of Route 219....

BEST SPOTS: The wind is blowing and the snow piling up, so let’s returning to the old swimming hole! A. Buck Tantalo of Bradford titles his memories, ...

FREEZE FRAME: The centerfold of the current edition of Pennsylvania magazine is the Kinzua Bridge sprawled out in all its fallen glory as part of its ...

TWO MORE: We have an update on Bradford native Trevor Jones who spent part of last summer scaling Denali — with his sights set on the highest peaks on...

DEJA VU?: Jan Graham of Columbus, Ohio, was doing some genealogy research on a recent visit home and came across the following newspaper clipping: “As...

LOOKING FOR LINKS: Our saga about Christmas sausage made in St. Marys has sparked some “feed”-back: John R. Troha who lives in Hue City, Vietnam, and ...

ABOVE GROUND: A “big, fat” woodchuck crossing the highway Dec. 28 surprised the heck out of Alice Elliott of Smethport. “In my 87 years,” she told us,...

IT’S TODAY: Our number 1 resolution? Our only resolution: This region must find a way out of its economic hell. This region — McKean, Elk, Cameron and...

BR-R-R-ADFORD: Now that we’ve had a taste of an old-fashioned Bradford winter, we’ll share some facts about what happens when the weather really gets ...

HOLIDAY POEMS: Don “Pathfinder” Parrish, former Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, Waterways Conservation Office, McKean County, sent us a couple ...

BRADFORD DAYS: Carole Longo Harris of New Hope writes, “This is one of my favorite Christmas Memories growing up in Bradford.” “The Knights of Columbu...

WE’RE BACK!: Admit it: You missed us. Christmas is one of only two holidays we take at The Era (the other is July 4) and since it fell on a Friday we ...

SPECIAL POEM: ’Twas the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, In a one-bedroom house made of plaster and stone. I had come down the chimney with...

ELF MAGIC: ’Twas the night before Christmas, And all through the town. No senior or child, has a reason to frown. ELF headquarters is empty, and the d...

GOOD WISHES: A couple readers passed along birthday wishes. William “Gus” Gocella writes us from Tennessee, “Congratulations RTS/ERA. I have enjoyed y...

LATE DEPARTURES: “I just heard a flock of geese headed south and they weren’t Snows or Tundras either as from the sound of them they weren’t very high...