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VALENTINE’S DAY: It’s never too early to begin planning for Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. We know this to be an incontrovertible fact, learned from many y...

GRIT CLIP: After our mention of the old Grit weekly, a yellowed newspaper clipping arrived in our mail, accompanied by a hand-written note. “I was cle...

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: We’ve all heard it and recited it so many times, we hardly even have to think about it. From kindergarten on, we repeated it at ...

ESTONIAN CONNECTION: We weren’t sure we’d get any responses when we printed a request from Ursula Paes to put her in touch with anyone who was from Es...

LIMESTONE — The alleged shooter in Wednesday’s double-homicide in Limestone has died of self-inflicted wounds. Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whit...

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PUP UPDATE: We’ve had a number of inquiries about what happened to Star, the lab-Rottweiler-chow mix pooch who was central to the survival story of Ma...

HAPPY 80TH: Belated birthday wishes are in order for Marilyn Horne, the renowned Bradford-born opera star who turned 80 last Thursday. That milestone ...

SURVIVAL 2: It was chilly and snowing a little on New Year’s Day, but Martha Shick was feeling good and her dog Star, a big, happy mixed-breed, needed...

A TALE OF SURVIVAL: Bob Eliason thought it was peculiar when he saw a car parked near the Bradford City Water Authority’s treatment plant at the end o...

PLACE NAMES: Our column about little known and long-forgotten settlements in Lafayette Township elicited a lengthy letter from Scott Morgan of Kane. S...

COUNTING BIRDS: After our column last week on the Christmas Bird Counts in Emporium and Benezette, Madeline Miles sent us an email about another count...

ANOTHER CRASH: Retired Bradford firefighter John E. Rimer was one of the responders at both of the Allegheny Airlines crashes that happened on approac...

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SILVER LINING: It’s hard to be optimistic when the thermometer on your car registers minus 18 degrees, as ours did, but we felt compelled to search ou...

ERA CALENDARS: John Dougherty of Smethport dropped us an email to let us know the 2014 Bradford Era calendar that our subscribers received in the past...

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POETIC STUDENT: We found a pleasant surprise in our email on New Year’s Day. It is a poem written by McKenna Shipman, the daughter of Angela and Robb ...

NEW YEAR’S WISHES: Kane poet Frances Wolfe Haight has shared many of her poems with us this year, and she closed out 2013 by mailing us one more. She ...

A BIG YEAR: We thought 2013 was a pretty big year for Bigfoot, but the Huffington Post confirmed it for us last week with a big story on its Weird New...