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ANF Visitors Bureau Announces Availability of Trail Maker App for Android Devices

June 12, 2013
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The ANF Visitors Bureau, McKean County’s travel and tourism promotion agency, has partnered with the Allegheny Institute at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford to create a self-guided tour of Smethport, PA for smart phone users. The first in a series of community-maintained digital maps, users can access information about Smethport and go to locations of interest at specific coordinates. The Trail Maker app can be streamed live or…

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Mansion District Inn Honored as a Top Performing B&B by TripAdvisor

June 3, 2013
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Smethport Web – by Nathan Muller Mansion District Inn Bed & Breakfast and Self-Catered Suites Mansion District Inn Bed and Breakfast and Self-Catered Suites in Smethport has been awarded a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence. This accolade, which honors hospitality excellence, is given to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveler reviews on TripAdvisor, and is extended to qualifying businesses worldwide. Only the top-performing 10 percent of businesses listed on TripAdvisor…

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Spring Migration on the Potato Creek Trails

May 24, 2013
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Smethport Web – by Lisa Chapman May is a month of surprises for birders of all stripes. The winds bring short term visitors through the area on their way to northern breeding grounds and our local breeders return from thousands of miles away to perpetuate their species. Saturday, May 11th was the date for the Pennsylvania Migratory Bird Count. On this day birders across the state spent whatever time…

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The Mansions of Smethport

May 23, 2013
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Smethport Web — by Jennifer Dombrowski Sometimes traveling near home can introduce you to things you never knew were there. I’m from Erie, Pennsylvania and stopped in my home town to visit with my parents for a few days before heading home to Europe. We were going to head to Niagara Falls but high winds and snow (in May!) foiled our plans for a helicopter ride over the falls…

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Popularity of ‘Ride of Pride’ Continues

May 22, 2013
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Smethport Web — by Les Jordan, Jr. Every year since the Moving Wall visited Smethport in 2006, there has been a “Ride of Pride” early in June. The Ride traces the route taken by the giant motorcycle cavalcade that accompanied the truck transporting the Moving Wall into McKean County. The yearly ride will be on June 2 and begins at the Smethport Legion with the staging area starting at…

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Smethport’s Wooly Willy Makes an Appearance on NBC’s ‘The Office’

May 17, 2013
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The NBC workplace comedy, The Office, set at the fictional company’s Scranton, Pa., branch, aired its final show Thursday to end an eight-year run. One of the characters in the series is office manager Dwight, who is seen behind his desk playing with a toy, which turns out to be the Wooly Willy magnetic toy invented in Smethport by Jim Herzog decades ago and still produced here by Patch…

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Teamwork Key Theme at Smethport Chamber Dinner

April 29, 2013
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Smethport Web – by Nathan Muller The Smethport Area Chamber of Commerce held its 12th Annual Business Dinner last week at the Court of Angels restaurant. Chamber president Jovanna Porter greeted guest of honor Coach Daniel Zeigler and the Smethport Hubbers Basketball team. Accoustic guitarist Ade Adu provided the evening’s music. During her remarks, Jovanna Porter spoke about community cooperation; specifically, about building an environment of cooperation where multiple…

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Donald “Corky” Hull Honored for Outstanding Leadership

April 17, 2013
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Smethport Web – by Nathan Muller For more than four decades Donald “Corky” Hull has advocated for trails in McKean and surrounding counties, fostering a positive attitude among a wide variety of partners and successfully forging bonds with private landowners, forestry companies and oil and gas companies to help make various trail projects – motorized and non-motorized – a reality. Since founding Seneca Highlands Snowmobile Association in 1972, Corky…

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Bradford Speedway Back to 1980s Configuration

April 7, 2013
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Smethport Web – by Jeff Andrulonis ​The “Greatest Show On Dirt” will be at the Bradford Speedway again in 2013! In preparation for the season opening, the track’s natural clay surface was recently re-graded. As any dirt track fan can attest, track preparation is an art form that requires the use of specialized heavy earth-moving equipment.​ During the Bradford Speedway’s heyday in the 1980s and 1990s, racers were able…

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Wrapping Up a Year of Interesting Hoop Action

March 18, 2013
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Olean Times Herald — Jim Melaro The final basketball notebook of the 2012-13 season was going to start by acknowledging the teams that made lengthy runs into the postseason. But something happened at Clarion University’s Tippin Gymnasium on Friday night that deserves top billing. As noted in the story following Smethport’s season-ending 54-43 loss to Johnsonburg in a PIAA Class A quarterfinal game, Hubber senior Zach Smith tossed in…

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