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GOOD IDEA: Following up on our columns on some of the great high school football contests of the 1950s, Courtney "Gus" Gustafson of Fort Loudon, Pa., ...

FAMILY LORE: Nancy Leichner of Smethport has a family legend about how Bradford got its name. Her great-great-grandfather was Henry Bradford Dollorf, ...

PART 2: We left our readers hanging yesterday amid the final few minutes of the 1959 season opener between St. Bernard Ramblers and the Smethport Hubb...

HEARTBREAKER: The man who broke the hearts of St. Bernard football fans in 1959 stopped by the other day with an Era clipping telling how the Smethpor...

GOIN' BATTY: In case you haven't noticed, it's the first "official" day of autumn although it's felt like fall for several weeks. With the change of t...

LOCAL ANGLE: A couple of alert readers spotted a local name in Kathleen Parker's syndicated column that appeared in the Era on Sept. 12 Vice Admiral E...

GO HUBBERS: We have a full report today on another legendary football team - the Smethport Hubbers of 1959. We had reported about a St. Bernard High S...

NAME GAME: Just as we suspected, there was a little bit of intrigue in how Bradford got its name. Returning to the Rev. Dominic Monti's information, p...

VOTE!: Today is Constitution Day so we have an excuse to be a little preachy. In just a few weeks, Americans go to the polls to elect a new president....

IKE'S MIGHT: The wind howling Sunday night as the remnants of Hurricane Ike blew through was freaky for a night in September. To us, it was more like ...

TREE TIME: You've seen the old photographs: The hills of Bradford denuded of every tree and yet dotted with oilwells. The tree that used to be there i...

NAME GAME: Angela Nuzzo of Bradford sheds some light on one facet of "the convoluted story" of how Bradford got its name. Citing the book, "McKean: Th...

DON RAABE: Pat Clifford of Oconomowoc, Wisc., a 1960 graduate of St. Bernard's, remembers Coach Don Raabe: "I was a freshman when Don Raabe took over ...

DON RAABE: We conclude today with comments made by Joe Bennett of West Lafayette, Ind., who still marvels at some of the things Don Raabe did as a coa...

SEPT. 11, 2001: Who alive today doesn't have a vivid recollection of where they were as the events of Sept. 11 were unfolding? Our old buddy Ken Cogan...

DON RAABE: After a half-century of watching football at all levels, Joe Bennett of West Lafayette, Ind., still marvels at some of the things Don Raabe...

NEW AGE: Perhaps you noticed: In deference to our Internet age, The Era has begun to list e-mail addresses for our reporters, sports writers, editors ...

BIG 25: Hard to believe it's been 25 years since Patty Bianco walked into the newsroom to tell us she was starting a creative and performing arts cent...

OUR SYMPATHY: We would be remiss if we didn't call attention to the recent death of Helen Johns-Richardson of Bradford, one of our most passionate wri...

BOOK NOTES: We should all be able to relate to this year's One Book Bradford selection - "The Children's Blizzard" by David Laskin. This non-fiction a...