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SPRING AT THE WWII MUSEUM: Like many local museums and non life-sustaining businesses, the Eldred World War II Museum has shut its doors to help reduc...

“Don’t ever call me a hero. My opinion of a hero are the ones that never made it back.” — Guy Prestia World War II veteran Guy Prestia addressed a pac...

ELDRED — The Eldred World War II Museum will be hosting WWII veteran Guy Prestia at 2 p.m. on Oct. 26 for a presentation that is free and open to the ...

As the area prepares to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the national American Legion with a parade in Smethport Monday, it’s an appropriate ti...

AGAIN : After our story on the dog tag of Cpl. James Uber being recovered in France, we were contacted by a Bradford resident who had an old dog tag i...

More than a century ago, a Pennsylvania National Guardsman from the Kane area was presumably killed in a battle in France. Cpl. James Lester Uber, 29,...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — It’s not often that the commencement speaker receives a standing ovation prior to delivering the keynote address, but this turned out...

Summertime is just around the corner, and for many 25-year-olds, that means parties, vacations and fun. For Marcus Borowsky, of Port Allegany, it mean...

SMETHPORT — Responding to a request from the Smethport Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2497 Auxiliary, fifth-graders at the Smethport Area Elementary Sc...

HISTORY : Curly Walters stopped by to give us some history of Bradford. It’s a sheet of information, all about Bradford in 1899. “The population of th...

COUDERSPORT — The Moving Wall, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be displayed in Potter County at the Cou...

DUKE CENTER — From an early age, Bill Robertson had a keen interest in history, greatly influenced by his father. Speaking to The Era about his latest...

Thad Shaffer always liked the outdoors, growing up in Port Allegany and hunting with his dad. When it came time to consider a career, he didn’t have a...

D-DAY: June 6, 1944, was a mixed day for Americans. It was a victory for the Allied war efforts, as the battle allowed troops get footing in Europe an...

Spending time at the gym. Working hard in the office. Walking instead of driving a car. These are all desirable behaviors, right? It depends. Are you ...

SERVICE: Veteran Donald Neal of Bradford shared this in honor of Veterans Day. “Serving Our Country” My father served in World War One, two brothers i...

TWO VETERANS: Bradford veteran Donald Neal — a poet — sent two poems in honor of Veterans Day that we will share with readers today and Saturday. “Two...

SMETHPORT — Blue skies and warm temperatures greeted the large crowd who attended the Bucktail Park dedication Friday afternoon behind the Good Growin...

FIRST SOLDIER: What is over 15-feet high and made of bronze? The answer is the Doughboy statue, situated at the entrance to Lawrenceville, one of Pitt...

SKEPTICS : We had a story in last week about magician Mike Super coming to Bradford Saturday for a magic show. He issued a challenge to skeptics. We k...