News
Jul 23, 2021
The books consist of everything from a narrative by Frederick Douglass to “Red Cloud: A Lakota Story on War and Surrender.” These books and more than ...
News
Jul 19, 2021
The Bradford Area Public Library, together with the YWCA Bradford, is set to unveil a new book collection next week — True Colors in American History;...
Local News
Sep 18, 2020
During the summer, First Presbyterian Church of Bradford applied for and received a $4,000 grant from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) to addres...
Local News
Jan 11, 2020
On Wednesday, the Zonta Club of Bradford honored nine girls from Bradford Area High School with the Amelia Earhart Service award. The girls were honor...
Local News, Online Features
Dec 19, 2019
Thanks to the LaStella Love Project — a new partnership between YWCA Bradford and the LaStella Lodge Auxiliary — people staying in the YWCA’s shelters...
Bradford, Local News, News, ...
Dec 05, 2019
For the past two years, administrators and board members at the YWCA Bradford have made plans for creating a new center for the facility at the site o...
Local News, Online Features
Oct 03, 2019
It’s hard to acclimate when one’s life is in upheaval. But a long shower and some fresh mascara go a long way to help one feel human again. With this ...
Bradford, Local News, News
Sep 23, 2019
YWCA Bradford’s Victims Resource Center has a new program director. While Shelley Alcorn is new to the position, she is certainly not a new face at ce...
Bradford, Local News, News
Jul 25, 2019
Staff at the YWCA Bradford have “rebooted” plans for their capital campaign project for a new agency headquarters and shelter — and they couldn’t be m...
Local News, News, Online Features
Mar 15, 2019
During her childhood, Karen Costello-Pecht was raised in a large family by parents who instilled the values of community involvement — a trait she bel...
Local News, News
Jan 10, 2019
The Zonta Club of Bradford recognized six seniors from Bradford Area High School in honor of Zonta International’s most famous past member, Amelia Ear...
Local News, News
Dec 21, 2018
The YWCA Bradford recently received a monetary donation from the Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward Education (A.B.A.T.E.) of PA, Kinzua Chapter, to be u...
Local News, News, Online Features
Apr 13, 2018
Toes were cramped in the ends of pointy shoes and there was plenty of wobbly walking in high heels Thursday when men and boys turned out during the fi...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Mar 23, 2018
The capital campaign continues for the YWCA Bradford, which will be able to use the funding to enhance and expand its services to residents of McKean ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Mar 17, 2018
In upcoming weeks it probably won’t be unusual to see men or boys checking out women’s high-heels, pumps and slippers on store racks in search of the ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Mar 08, 2018
When Kim Graham called the YWCA Bradford several years ago to offer furniture to the needy, she was connected with a young, single, unemployed mother ...
Local News, News, Online Features
Jan 18, 2018
As pastors of the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Bradford, Rev. Rob Kouw and his wife, Rev. Katherine Randall, know that homeless people have v...
College Sports, Local Sports, Sports
Jan 12, 2018
When former Pitt-Bradford Hockey Team member Matt Pekular lived in the community as a student, he had no idea of the prevalence of domestic violence -...
Local News, News, Online Features
Dec 30, 2017
Albert Einstein once said that only a life lived for others is worth living, and locals in Bradford have the opportunity to live those words. As anoth...
Local News, News
Dec 23, 2017
This time of year is about giving, and officials at two Bradford food pantries have been the benefactors of bountiful generosity from the community. “...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
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...
