HURT100: Former Era sports writer Pete Sirianni contacted us recently to let us know that two former McKean County residents recently performed well at a long distance running event in Hawaii.

He tells us that Yassine Diboun and Sara Santilli, both Kane Area High School alums, placed in the top 11 of their gender in the Hawaiian Ultra Running Team’s Trail 100-Mile Endurance Run, aka the “HURT100.”

Yassine Diboun was the sixth overall finisher in 25 hours and change,” Pete said, while “Sara Santilli was the 11th overall female and 52nd overall in 52 hours.”

The 100-mile race was held Jan. 13-14 in the mountains above the city of Honolulu — in semi-tropical rainforest.

MOON: Before sunrise on Wednesday, North America will have a view of rare sight: a moon that is a supermoon, an eclipse and a blue moon, EarthSky.com reports.

The moon that will take us from Tuesday into Wednesday will appear a little larger than normal — a beautiful, peaceful but somewhat eerie sight when the ground is covered with white snow. When the moon is not covered by clouds, the light on the snow creates a strange cross between night and day.

Much of North America will see the total eclipse, but the moon will set in Bradford before totality is visible. We’ll be able to see the start of a partial umbral eclipse at 6:48 a.m., according to EarthSky.org.

Despite the colorful sounding name, a blue moon doesn’t look any different or any more colorful than any other moon, it just means it’s the second full moon in one month.

THE RAVEN:On this day in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror, the Associated Press reports.

Even now, 172 years later, the description of the narrator’s experience is still chilling.