The McKean-Potter Counties American Red Cross is replenishing its stock of comfort kits to give out to disaster victims. The following items are needed in trail size bottles or containers in order to complete the kits: shaving cream, hand lotion, and deodorant (men’s and women’s).
National Fuel is decreasing its rates by 4 percent starting Tuesday. This means the bill of a typical residential customer will go from $77 a month to $73 a month
United Way officials report that John Peterson and Greta Billings will be honored at a luncheon to recognize their service to the Bradford community and support of United Way. “Both John and Greta consistently go above and beyond for United Way.
The state attorney general’s offices says Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers have been improperly issuing subpoenas and using them for a fishing expedition to help mount a defense in his child sex abuse case. The AG’s office today asked Judge John Cleland to have the subpoenas withdrawn and to force Sandusky’s lawyers to show how the information they want is relevant to the case. The motion filed in Centre County Court claims Sandusky’s lawyers sent subpoenas that improperly revealed the names of alleged victims.
The latest person arrested in Cattaraugus County’s continuing crackdown on welfare fraud is also charged with criminal trespass and criminal possession of stolen property.52-year-old Roger Canute of Olean is accused of taking a food stamp benefit card that was issued to someone else, and then spending and selling more than $2,300 worth of food stamps. Sheriff’s deputies say the incidents happened from March 15 to April 2.Canute is free on his own recognizance.
Even if you’ve been responsible and maintain a complete back up, it still means reinstalling the operating system, restoring the back ups, testing, fixing, and testing some more.
Hard drive calibration should only be performed by a trained technician.
Early Saturday morning the server that hosts Bradford-Online.com and our other web sites lost its hard drive. The new hard drive is installed and backups have been restored. Everything seems to be working, and we apologize for any inconvenience. Thanks to our host, Olean Web Hosting, for working non-stop to restore everything as quickly as possible.
Testing continues to ferret out any remaining bugs. If you find anything that doesn’t work correctly, please let us know. Contact Us.
Graffiti in Bradford, was the order of business at the Bradford City Council Graffiti Work Session held on September 9. The work session was open to the public, with about 20 local residents attending in addition to City Council members.
Based on ordinances from various other municipalities, Council presented a draft ordinance. The draft ordinance can be found here. After a reading of the draft by Mayor Tom Riel, comments were called for from the residents.
The ordinace proposes to:
Formally make graffiti a crime.
Ban the sale to, and possession of, spray paint for minors.
Require property owners to clean up graffiti in a reasonable time period.
During the public comment period, residents aired concerns such as, what penalties could be levied for offenders, and if the ordinance would apply to everyone equally.
The proposed ordinance leaves punishment up to Pennsylvania state guidelines as imposed by a judge. It also specifically states that it applies to, “associations, businesses, clubs, corporations, partnerships, and bodies politic”.
Local businessman Mike Smith was found guilty Tuesday afternoon in a case that has drawn wide attention. The City of Bradford issued a citation to Smith for a violation of the sign ordinance, but Smith contended that he was a veteran showing his patriotism by displaying the American flag.