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SUN DOGS: Our item Tuesday about "sun dogs" - rainbows in the sky in the winter - hit home with five workers from ARG packaging plant who saw a pair o...

WRONG DOG: Jef Harvey of Palmer, Alaska, amends his previous note: "I'm very sorry, but I provided inaccurate information to you (and, through you, to...

TODAY'S QUOTE: "Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: 'Too late.'" So said Martin Luth...

LOOK UP: The top of the Kinzua Dam has been a popular place these days for people hoping to catch a glimpse of several American bald eagles cruising t...

SNOW SNAKE: Some of our readers were dubious when we mentioned in December that Dick Robertson of Bradford had seen a garter snake in the snow during ...

PET PEEVE: "Once again with all the recent snow, drivers who do not brush their cars off - only enough to see straight ahead. The police fine you for ...

EARLY BIRDS?: Two robins have been visiting at the home of Herb and Monica Porter on Fishing Creek, Roulette. Herb reports Monday they have seen the p...

SUGAR SNOW: Roger Alexis phoned to tell us of a possible name for one of the many kinds of snow - powdered sugar snow. He called after being outside F...

FIVE STEPS: First of all, don't panic. That's the most significant piece of advice if you get the pink slip, according to the Pennsylvania Institute o...

1954 LION: Roy L. Gomes of Bradford says mountain lions have existed in Bradford - at least, years ago. "When I first came to Pennsylvania over 50 yea...

JIM OWENS: A personal note today on Gifford's great Jim Owens: "My name is Wayne Brechtel and I graduated from Johnsonburg High School in 1967. I sign...

SNOW DOG: A reader in Palmer, Alaska, knew just what we were talking about when we asked about a rainbow someone had seen in the winter - He had calle...

HOMECOMING: Perhaps it was a little "auld lang syne" but Barney Snyder of Tucson, Ariz., wrote us on New Year's Eve about a trend seen in some communi...

LEEK TIME?: This has definitely been a see-saw winter in Bradford, one in which snow has piled up to the window sill but then melted enough to reveal ...

TODAY'S POEM: Blaise V. Dornisch of Johnsonburg sums up the state of the country: "'T'was the week after Christmas, and all through the land. Our nati...

CHRISTMAS '33: Before we totally leave the holiday season, we wanted to share a look back at Christmas in Bradford during the Great Depression. Lookin...

HOLIDAY WORDS: Neil Hoffmier writes us from Summerfield, Pa., sending along holiday wishes to "the 'guys and gals' of our National Guard soldiers gett...

TOUGH TIME: When you think things are a bit tough in your life, consider the soldier in World War II fighting the Battle of the Bulge some 64 years ag...

REAL WINTER: The headline in the Dec. 27, 1978, Era blared, "Christmas snow smothers city." The lead read, "Some people may have been preoccupied with...

TODAY'S QUERY: An Elk County reader who asked to be nameless has a (rhetorical) question: "I don't live in Bradford, but I get and read the Era every ...