Content, Daily Headlines, Local News, ...
May 07, 2024
Notice something different about The Era’s front page? You may have spotted a QR code added just below the masthead, at the right side of the page. Sc...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 24, 2024
Elite universities can work toward greater free speech, but things won’t improve until legacy campus publications are challenged. “We have conservativ...
Local News, News, Obituaries
Mar 30, 2024
The Bradford Era’s obituary deadline moving forward will be 3 p.m. daily, effective Monday, April 1.
News, Round the Square
Mar 15, 2024
PART 3: Here’s the last part of the story from Bradford Lion E.E. Lindemuth about his hometown that appeared in a 1924 edition of The Era during the s...
Mar 13, 2024
Phil Graham — likely known more as the husband to legendary Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham than his own work — once famously described new...
News, Round the Square
Feb 01, 2024
HEADLINES: Headlines, they are on every story and are what catches the eye of the reader. The same has been true throughout the history of newspapers....
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 05, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — If The Washington Post treated itself the way it treats conservatives, it would call itself the “liberal Washington Post.” The news...
Local News, News
Dec 23, 2023
There will be no edition of The Bradford Era on Monday, Dec. 25, due to the federal holiday observed Christmas Day. The newsroom will be available via...
Local News, News
Dec 21, 2023
In a story regarding the Bradford Sanitary Authority in Thursday’s Era, the headline and first paragraph were incorrect. Correctly, sewer and stormwat...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 17, 2023
Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or Metro, has received $2.4 billion in federal aid since the beginning of the pandemic but its ...
Content, Daily Headlines, News, ...
Oct 07, 2023
In honor of Newspaper Week, I would like to tell you why I don’t work at a newspaper. I don’t work at The Bradford Era. Print media is important, and ...
Content, Daily Headlines, Newsletter, ...
Oct 04, 2023
Sometimes we can’t know what it is we want, until we know what it isn’t. A previous employer demonstrated to me in no uncertain terms exactly the sort...
Content, Daily Headlines, Newsletter, ...
Oct 03, 2023
In honor of National Newspaper Week, I want to answer the most common question I’ve been asked since I started here in 2001 — “Why do you do it?” Mayb...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 06, 2023
An op-ed in The New York Times warns, as the headline puts it, that “America is an empire in decline,” and finds a precedent in imperial Rome. The pie...
News, Round the Square
Aug 29, 2023
PAPERS: We have some more to bring you from the old microfilm of the M’Kean Orbit, the Smethport-based newspaper that began in 1849. Early on, this wa...
Content, Daily Headlines, Local News, ...
Aug 22, 2023
Dr. Betty Hayes may not be a name that rings a bell to most, but her concern for public health in southern Elk County in the 1940s went all the way to...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 20, 2023
Congress in 1980 maintained the ability of the free press to do its job when it passed the Privacy Protection Act in response to a Supreme Court rulin...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 16, 2023
It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate comp...
News, Round the Square
Aug 08, 2023
OLD PAPERS: In a prior column, we shared some headlines from a Nov. 13, 1918, copy of The Era, regarding World War I. Stories like “Committee appointe...
Daily Headlines, Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 21, 2023
It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News & Small Business Support...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
