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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bradford Era — Andy Close No one gave Smethport much of a chance facing the exceptionally talented and athletic Clairton Bears in the PIAA Class A second round Tuesday. They didn’t care. Bryon Clifford’s potential game-winning three as time expired clanged off the front of the rim and the Hubbers escaped with the biggest win in the program’s history, 37-35, striking a big blow for District 9 in the…
Bradford Era Smethport’s first boys PIAA Class A basketball playoff victory couldn’t have come at a better time. Disappointed with their fourth place finish in the District 9 playoffs, the Hubbers put it all together Friday night giving Bishop Guilfoyle a taste of its own medicine in rolling to a 63-56 victory over the Marauders at Altoona High School. “From what I hear, tonight is the first state playoff…
Olean Times Herald – by Tom Roof If Terry Schwab was on edge Tuesday afternoon, he didn’t show it. With a clean white Smethport wrestling shirt on, his office a disaster, and his two star seniors across the hall in the beginning stages of working up a good sweat, the Hubbers’ coach was all smiles. You would have thought this was his first day as head coach at one…
Smethport Web — by Annie Wolfe It’s time for Bowl For Kids’ Sake, the largest annual FUN-raising event that supports Big Brothers Big Sisters. In McKean County, Bowl For Kids’ Sake will be held Saturday, March 23rd at Byllye Lanes in Bradford. Help make 2013 the biggest event ever! Participants may choose to bowl at 2 p.m., 5:00 p.m. or at 8 p.m. You can register to bowl by…
Smethport Web — by Lisa Chapman
The Post-Journal – Jamestown Community College has announced Darion Gregory as the new head coach of Jayhawk men’s and…
Bradford Era – by Savannah Barr The year’s McKean County Fair highlighted local culture and brought families together —…
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