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NOW & THEN: We have feedback today about swimming holes — past and present. Kaitlyn Kan tells us about the younger generation: “Yes, now-a-days kids s...

AUTO TECH: A trip to the auto repair shop can feel like visiting another planet for some motorists — they do not understand the language, and are unfa...

30 YEARS AGO: It’s been 30 years since the Bradford Centennial Celebration and we remember vast amounts of copy being churned out for a special editio...

CHEEKY SHOT: Our columns about skinny-dipping swimming holes in Bradford prompted a reader to drop by with a calendar from 1910 which shows one such p...

MAPLE DEEP: How about a swimming hole known as Maple Deep? This hole was located on Tuna Creek just above the Harri Emery Airport in the late ’30s and...

LON CHANEY: It’s coming up on Halloween, so it seems like a good time to show this carving of Lon Chaney by a Bradford woman. Cassie L. Brandow of Bra...

SPECIAL PLACE: When Don Watts joined The Era staff as new circulation manager, we learned his background included some interesting information about h...

NO CIGAR: We were off a little bit when we provided the serial number for Harri Emery’s plane. Ray Lewis tells us, first of all, it was not the serial...

WOOLY WILLY: Wooly Willy and its roots in Smethport are heralded in a Made in America piece featured recently in American Profile magazine, a newspape...

UNSELFISH ACT: Bob Murphy of Smethport, who works with a dog rescue group in Pittsburgh, passes along a thanks to someone who rescued one of his rescu...

TEN FOOT: Let the memories roll … Sonny Grill of New Philadelphia, Ohio, writes: “Growing up on Rochester Street in the ’40s and ’50s the swimming hol...

DOG DRAMA: If you have one of those pooches who gets hysterical during a thunderstorm, help is on the way. We got some information the other day from ...

GO OWLS: One thing the internet accomplishes is keeping former residents in touch with all things Bradford — including the football team. “During the ...

SEPT. 29, 1929: It was 80 years ago today, that famed aviator Harri Emery of Bradford crashed his airplane near Kane. Emery and several local people w...

TEN FOOT: That swimming hole known as "Ten Foot" was used by quite a few Bradford kids, if our feedback is any indication. Larry Skiver of Lafayette d...

THE CLASSIC: If you like marching bands, you need to get to Parkway Field tomorrow. The Bradford Marching Owls will present the 30th Annual Autumn Cla...

LETTER HOME: Leah Costik begins school today in Turkey where she is on a year-long Rotary Exchange program in Izmir. Yesterday, we quoted from one of ...

LETTER HOME: Bad enough starting school in a new city. How about in a new country? That's the situation being faced by Leah Costik who is on a year-lo...

NOT BEARS: Jack Brunner of Bradford can tell us unequivocally that it is not bears tearing up large amounts of sod in search of grubs. It's crows! Jac...

DENZEL MANIA: Harriet Armstrong of Bradford writes, "While Denzel Washington is in the area for the filming of 'Unstoppable,' I'd like to put in a plu...