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Smethport Area School District Held its 2024 National Honor Society Induction Ceremony

March 11, 2024
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Bradford Era – Two full members and 11 associate members were inducted in the Smethport Chapter. These students join the 22 juniors and seniors who are already full members. Principal Doug Dickerson welcomed everyone and then returning members presided over the ceremony. President Isabella Learn introduced guest speaker Adam Jack. Jack, a 1991 graduate of Smethport Area Junior-Senior High School, addressed the students with advice stemming from an inspiring…

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Smethport Shooter Brayden Cosper Becomes Overall WTL Champion

March 4, 2024
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Olean Times Herald – The 2024 Winter Travel League (WTL) season came to an end Feb. 25 at the Richburg Rod & Gun Club as 34 qualified league shooters posted scores in the season-ending, 50-bird trophy shoot. Junior shooter Brayden Cosper from Smethport, Pa., is the league’s regular season champion with his 23.75 average. Mason Findlay of Fillmore was the runner-up with a 22.67 average, while Lancaster’s Jake Harris…

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Smethport Hubbers Launch My Jersey, Your Impact

October 8, 2023
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Bradford Era – by Sara Eddy Furlong The My Jersey, Your Impact program implemented this year at Smethport High School aims to provide students an opportunity to show teachers just how influential they’ve been. Anna Stewart, Smethport assistant principal and athletic director, explained that Superintendent Brice Benson read an article about the program in use in another district and suggested its implementation in Smethport. Now, each Friday, senior Hubber…

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Winners Walk on Sunshine Following Arts on Island Car Show

October 4, 2023
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Bradford Era – by Mandy Colosimo The island on Hamlin Lake in Smethport can reportedly handle 200 vehicles for the Arts on the Island car show — and organizers never know until lunchtime the day of the event how many will register. On Saturday, the weather was so wonderful, 138 entries took to the island. Entrants are eligible to compete for an award in several categories. Trophies were awarded…

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Civil War Letters Now at McKean County Historical Society

September 7, 2023
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Bradford Era – by Mandy Colosimo A collection of handwritten letters and other documents, dating back to 1856, were discovered in an attic of a home in Washington state have made their way to McKean County. The correspondence consisted of family exchanges between Phillip Griggs Ellithorpe, Philander Doty Ellithorpe and Asa R. Burleson and Oliver Moore during the Civil War. It had been kept at the Cowlitz County Historical…

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30 Years Ago Smethport Football Made History

August 24, 2023
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Bradford Era – by Cory Angell “It was a change you could see coming over three years,” said Bob Parana, former Kane-based WLBI radio announcer. “Near the end of the 1990 season my co-host Barry Morgan and I looked at each other. We thought, there is something special with this team, it’s coming.” It was the start of something special. The Smethport Hubbers began to perform at a high…

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Smethport Hopes for Bounce-Back Year in Tough Region 2

August 23, 2023
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Olean Times Herald – by Sam Wilson Last year marked a turbulent change for the Smethport football team, as it not only had to replace a senior group that led the Hubbers the District 9 Class A championship game, it did so with a new head coach and in a new league. The 2022 season brought an end to a four-year streak of qualifying for the District 9 playoffs….

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McKean County Historical Society’s Fall Bus Tour Filling Fast

August 15, 2023
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Bradford Era – by Mandy Colosimo The McKean County Historical Society fall bus trip takes to the road 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 14 and seats are filling fast. The trip will leave Olean, N.Y. and head to its first location in Lockport, N.Y. Once there, it’s anchors away, as the group sets out for a two-hour cruise along the Erie Canal for a historical tour of the…

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Smethport Diner Demolished, Renovation Next

June 30, 2023
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Bradford Era – by Mandy Colosimo The Smethport Diner, former home of the “Hubber-Burger,” on West Main Street, U.S. Route 6, in Smethport, was demolished earlier this month as part of the American Legion Post 108 expansion. Post Commander Courtney Cole knew this phase would be the most challenging one, and the phase that would involve the most community support. To remove the whole front of the diner, was…

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48 in Class of 2023 Graduate from Smethport High

June 3, 2023
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Bradford Era – by Daniella Langianese The 2023 Smethport Area High School held an awards assembly to announce students who won scholarships on Wednesday, as well as their valedictorian Faith Miller and salutatorian Kaylee Swanson. “These two girls were neck and neck all four years, it came down to Mr. Emerson tallying up the final marking period grades before we knew the winner — and even then it was…

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