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    Home shortage

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    Childcare crisis
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    Childcare crisis
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Jun 21, 2024
    Local chambers of commerce from across Pennsylvania, including Bradford, submitted a letter to state lawmakers urging them to address the commonwealth...
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    The labor market’s double-edged sword
    Opinion, Сolumns
    The labor market’s double-edged sword
    RACHEL GRESZLER - Tribune News Service 
    Oct 13, 2022
    The unemployment rate now matches the pre-pandemic, half-century low of 3.5 percent. But with 2.8 million missing workers, low unemployment is both a ...
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    Resolve Pa.’s rural dentist shortage
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Resolve Pa.’s rural dentist shortage
    Aug 25, 2022
    Dentistry long has been treated as a separate element of health care, even though oral health is crucial to overall well-being. It’s also a distinct b...
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    Moms need more breastfeeding resources and support
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Moms need more breastfeeding resources and support
    CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
    May 23, 2022
    FORT WORTH, Texas — It was probably inevitable that the baby formula shortage would devolve into a noxious quarrel between the breastfeeding and formu...
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    Rural superintendents: ‘We went from being heroes to villains’
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Rural superintendents: ‘We went from being heroes to villains’
    GERALD K. LeTENDRE and PEGGY SCHOOLING The Conversation 
    May 07, 2022
    UNIVERSITY PARK (AP) — When the pandemic first closed schools in March 2020, it was an emergency response that upended the typical priorities of publi...
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    Military recruiting is increasingly AWOL. Can we fix it?
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Military recruiting is increasingly AWOL. Can we fix it?
    LT. GEN. THOMAS SPOEHR 
    Apr 03, 2022
    It’s national budget time in Washington, so the conversation on Capitol Hill is focused on numbers. But an important number is being overlooked, one t...
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    Use rescue funds for nurses
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Use rescue funds for nurses
    Feb 01, 2022
    A shortage of nursing care is the kind of problem everyone can notice and everyone agrees needs to be addressed. It’s not, however, the kind of thing ...
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    Schools face staffing challenges
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Schools face staffing challenges
    Jan 10, 2022
    In March 2020, kids went home from school on Friday and didn’t come back for months. Some didn’t walk through the school doors in person until August ...
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    Can UPMC solve nursing shortage?
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Can UPMC solve nursing shortage?
    Dec 22, 2021
    Necessity is the mother of invention. It’s a truism because, well, it’s true. You don’t find a new way to do something unless you have a problem that ...
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    UAHS makes improvements, investments for ER access
    Opinion, Сolumns
    UAHS makes improvements, investments for ER access
    DR. JILL OWENS Special to The Era 
    Dec 19, 2021
    Over the past two years, COVID has taken a toll on our community and our country that no one could have imagined back on March 14, 2020, when the firs...
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    Labor shortage affects safety
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Labor shortage affects safety
    Dec 11, 2021
    There has been a lot of talk about how the labor shortage — in Pennsylvania and around the country — is hitting different industries hard. It’s changi...
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    Labor shortage impacts safety on the road and crossing it
    Editorials
    Labor shortage impacts safety on the road and crossing it
    Marcie 
    Dec 10, 2021
    There has been a lot of talk about how the labor shortage — in Pennsylvania and around the country — is hitting different industries hard. It’s changi...
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    Supply issues and price increases impact Christmas trees
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    Supply issues and price increases impact Christmas trees
    DANIELLA GRIESBAUM dgriesbaum@bradfordera.com 
    Nov 23, 2021
    Supply chain issues, shortage of truck drivers and increased wait times for shipped items are not only threatening gift giving this holiday season, bu...
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    Letter: Our COVID crisis was preventable
    Letter: Our COVID crisis was preventable
    Oct 30, 2021
    As a physician who has worked in this community for 23 years, I am pleading for all who are able to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Right now, Cattaraugus Cou...
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    Olean General Hospital cancels elective surgeries, cites staff shortages
    News
    Olean General Hospital cancels elective surgeries, cites staff shortages
    BOB CLARK Special to The Era 
    Oct 26, 2021
    OLEAN, N.Y. — Staff shortages have led to all elective surgeries at Olean General Hospital to be suspended, hospital officials announced Tuesday after...
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    Local blood drives set for Red Cross
    News
    Local blood drives set for Red Cross
    Marcie 
    Oct 05, 2021
    The American Red Cross is experiencing an emergency blood and platelet shortage and must collect 10,000 additional blood products each week over the n...
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    Pennsylvania recruiting school bus drivers amid shortage
    News
    Pennsylvania recruiting school bus drivers amid shortage
    Sep 30, 2021
    HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania is mailing 375,000 holders of commercial driver’s licenses in a recruitment campaign meant to address a shortage of sch...
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    Pennsylvania liquor stores put 2-bottle limit on some booze
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    Pennsylvania liquor stores put 2-bottle limit on some booze
    MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press 
    Sep 16, 2021
    HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's state-run liquor system will begin rationing sales of a few dozen products on Friday in response to what it describes as s...
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    Nursing shortage spawns hefty sign-on bonuses in Western Pa.
    News, PA State News
    Nursing shortage spawns hefty sign-on bonuses in Western Pa.
    MEGAN GUZA The Tribune-Review, Greensburg/TNS 
    Aug 22, 2021
    A long-looming nursing shortage — exacerbated by the near-relentless toll of the COVID-19 pandemic — means more hospitals and health systems are offer...
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    Red Cross blood drives set
    News
    Red Cross blood drives set
    Marcie 
    Jul 29, 2021
    ERIE — American Red Cross blood drives have been set across the region for the month of August. In McKean County, a blood drive will be held from 12:3...
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    Pa. fish commissioners amend rules on stocking Class A trout waters
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    Pa. fish commissioners amend rules on stocking Class A trout waters
    July 30, 2025
    After tabling the issue in April, the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission voted earlier this week on changes that could allow stocking ...
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    Cosper wins Junior AAA singles, receives scholarship
    National Sports, Outdoors
    Cosper wins Junior AAA singles, receives scholarship
    July 30, 2025
    SPARTA, Ill. — After 3,100 miles, 80 hours in the truck, and 1,700 competitive targets Brayden Cosper finished participation in national shooting even...
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    Laughter, illusions, local musicians
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    Laughter, illusions, local musicians
    Added to Kinzua Rocks the Wake lineup
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    July 30, 2025
    Kinzua Rocks the Wake is leveling up this Labor Day weekend, adding comedy, magic and beachside tunes to its already jaw-dropping lineup of water stun...
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    Preserving the past
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    Preserving the past
    July 30, 2025
    The Annual Allegheny Mountain Engine and Implement Association Engine Show, always held the fourth weekend in July, staged its 47th edition July 25 to...
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    Dog days of summer
    Local News
    Dog days of summer
    July 30, 2025
    High heat and humidity in the area lately has been hard on pets and people alike. Spying lots of panting pooches? That’s because dogs pant primarily t...
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    National Night Out set Tuesday in Bradford
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    National Night Out set Tuesday in Bradford
    By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER marcie@bradfordera.com 
    July 30, 2025
    Firetrucks, police dogs, a caricature artist, bounce houses, a bevy of emergency responders — National Night Out in Bradford will be a dream come true...
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