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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 ...

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;...

During the summer, First Presbyterian Church of Bradford applied for and received a $4,000 grant from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) to addres...

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...

Thanks to the LaStella Love Project — a new partnership between YWCA Bradford and the LaStella Lodge Auxiliary — people staying in the YWCA’s shelters...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 -...

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...

This time of year is about giving, and officials at two Bradford food pantries have been the benefactors of bountiful generosity from the community. “...