Bradford Regional Medical Center submits closure notice; transitioning to outpatient care center
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Bradford Regional Medical Center submits closure notice; transitioning to outpatient care center
Transitioning to outpatient care center 
By SARA FURLONG  news@bradfordera.com  
February 17, 2026
(Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional information available from hospital officials and state Rep. Martin Causer Tuesday afterno...
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Romance takes the mic at On the Side Books
Romance takes the mic at On the Side Books
By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
February 18, 2026
An evening of love stories, poetry, songs and other forms of creative expression will take shape in downtown Bradford, encouraging creatives to step u...
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Bradford Sanitary Authority earns high national ranking
Bradford Sanitary Authority earns high national ranking
By SARA FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
February 18, 2026
Bradford Sanitary Authority earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s highest rating for its industrial pretreatment program, or IPP. An IPP i...
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Outdoors: The First and Last
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Outdoors: The First and Last
By WADE ROBERTSON 
February 19, 2026
If you’re a war history buff, you’ll recognize the title of this article as a well-known book detailing the rise and fall of the German air force in W...
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Port Allegany defeats Coudy, advances to Class 2A semifinals
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Port Allegany defeats Coudy, advances to Class 2A semifinals
By JO WANKEL - Era Sports Writer 
February 18, 2026
PORT ALLEGANY — A tie at the 4-minute mark in the third quarter gave Coudersport an opportunity, but ultimately Port Allegany would claim the victory,...
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Newspapers in Oil City, Franklin, Clarion to shut down
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Newspapers in Oil City, Franklin, Clarion to shut down
Feb 19, 2026
OIL CITY — A longtime Venango County newspaper company — with publications in Oil City and Franklin as well as Clarion — announced it will shut down o...
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Local oil purchasers increase prices
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Local oil purchasers increase prices
Feb 19, 2026
Two local oil purchasers have increased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Wednesday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil P...
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Local oil purchasers decrease prices
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Local oil purchasers decrease prices
Feb 18, 2026
Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Tuesday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Pur...
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Officials, community react to BRMC department closures
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Officials, community react to BRMC department closures
By JIM ECKSTROM news@bradfordera.com 
Feb 17, 2026
Reaction in the community to the impending closure of more departments and services at Bradford Regional Medical Center, including the emergency depar...
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Sentencing for Hvizdzak brothers moved to April in federal fraud case
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Sentencing for Hvizdzak brothers moved to April in federal fraud case
By SARA FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
February 12, 2026
Sentencing for Shane and Sean Hvizdzak has been pushed into April after a federal judge granted continuances in both cryptocurrency fraud cases. Feder...
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Port Allegany man convicted of assaulting child
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Port Allegany man convicted of assaulting child
February 6, 2026
SMETHPORT — District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg‑Shaffer reported a jury convicted a Port Allegany man Thursday of assaulting a 3‑year‑old child. Ga...
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Cold hampers Longfellow Ave. fire response
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Cold hampers Longfellow Ave. fire response
January 26, 2026
Bradford City Fire Department was dispatched to a structure fire at 8 Longfellow Ave. at 4:03 p.m. Saturday. First-arriving firefighters found a worki...
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Santa versus the Grinch
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Santa versus the Grinch
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The Grinch showed up at a Port Allegany High School wrestling match again this year, trying to get the better of Santa Claus. Scroll through the galle...
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An Old Fashioned Christmas
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An Old Fashioned Christmas
December 15, 2025
The sights and sounds of Christmases past returned to downtown Bradford during Old Fashioned Christmas held Saturday. People enjoyed horse-drawn carri...
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On Barack Obama and the aliens
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On Barack Obama and the aliens
February 19, 2026
We got a kick out of an old chestnut among conspiracy theorists — whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and whether any of those a...
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Jackson, civil-rights icon, passes away
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Jackson, civil-rights icon, passes away
February 19, 2026
In the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession in October 2009, the Rev. Jesse Jackson addressed at the National Conference of Black Mayors in Las ...
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The year of the independent
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The year of the independent
By ADAM BRANDON RealClearPolitics 
February 18, 2026
Nearly half of Americans now refuse to identify as either Democrat or Republican. According to a recent Gallup poll, independents make up a record 45%...
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