Smethport Web — by Les Jordan, Jr. Members of the Smethport Garden Club hosted a Saturday, Dec. 5th brunch at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. The brunch included Christmas songs played on the piano by Katie Barr and Felicia Alfieri. Katie is home schooled and Felicia is a student at Smethport Area High School. Plenty of home-made food and baked goods were provided for guests attending the event.
Smethport Web — by Nathan Muller Smethport American Legion Bucktail Post #138 and American Legion Auxiliary sponsored the 10th tenth annual Legion of Trees and Wreaths last Friday through Sunday in the post room where the public enjoyed the holiday decorations and placed bids for the trees, wreaths and decorations donated by local businesses and organizations. Judges for the event were Lori Rounsville, Vicki Alfieri and Judy Church. The…
The Bradford Era — by Fran De Lancey Longtime Hamlin Memorial Library benefactors Shirley and Bob Digel were honored Saturday at the open house for the library’s new addition. The couple were surprised when they saw a mural handpainted by Smethport artist Julie Mader — a tribute to the Digels — that depicts themes from their lives as well as topics that are popular with the library’s patrons. Speaking…
Smethport Web When Smethport resident Matt Muller decided to go to China to teach English as a Second Language, he consulted with Ross and Jovanna Porter who had a similar experience. In their discussions, Ross happened to comment that Matt would be treated as “rock star” there. This raised the eyebrows of Matt’s parents, and Matt himself didn’t know what to make of the seemingly odd comment. Three months…
Smethport Web – by Nathan Muller On Wednesday Mayor Ross Porter returned to Smethport by ambulance from UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh to convalesce at Lakeview Living & Rehabilitation. After 10 to 12 weeks of healing from numerous injuries resulting from a recent truck crash, plus several surgeries to put bones back together, an aggressive rehab regimen can be undertaken to help Porter regain full mobility. Update from Bradford…
Smethport Web — by Nathan Muller No, not the Bowman Health Clinic… This is a job for Timber Ghost Taxidermy, which makes house calls to restore trophy mounts. Some trophies are too heavy or mounted too high to be easily taken down and brought to the shop where they can be worked on by experts Sergio Herrera and Bryan Burdick. That was the case recently when Timber Ghost received…
The Bradford Era – by Joellen Chesnut The cry for help sent out in August of 2008 by a group of local residents concerned with the upkeep of McKean Memorial Park in Lafayette was heard loud and clear by at least one young set of ears. Parker Gorrell, a senior at Smethport Area High School, read articles detailing the unkempt and overgrown headstones in the cemetery and wrote up…
Smethport Web — by Les Jordan, Jr. Spooks, witches, goblins and games where all part of the fun on Halloween at the first Haunted Carnival hosted by the auxiliary of the Smethport Bucktail Post #138. Children in a variety of Halloween costumes were treated to spooky displays, games and prizes at the carnival. Much of the displays were created by Dennis and Honor Rounsville. The displays included scary creatures,…
The Bradford Era — by Fran De Lancey Dr. Richard Frederick presented a seldom-seen and often humorous look at our 16th president Thursday to the McKean County Historical Society. The annual fall dinner meeting was held at the United Christian Church in East Smethport. Frederick, professor of history and director of the history/political science program at University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, said that 75 years ago, noted historian James…
Smethport Web — by Nathan Muller The McKean County Historical Society held its annual fall dinner on Thursday, October 15th at the East Smethport United Christian Church. The event featured guest speaker Dr. Richard Frederick, Director of History at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, who is known for his insightful and entertaining lectures. In this year of the Lincoln Bicentennial — and noting that some 16,000 volumes have…
The McKean County Historical Society Museum at the Old Jail in Smethport is seeking an array of volunteers. As…
Bradford Era – by Molly Anderson Valedictorian Carson Dunn and salutatorian Emily Higley (pictured) addressed the Smethport Area High…
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