KELLEN M. QUIGLEY kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
October 18, 2025
During Fire Prevention Week, the nationally observed week of safety and fire education held Oct. 5-11, students in schools across the region had the o...
By BOB CLARK bclark@oleantimesherald.com 
October 18, 2025
OLEAN — The financial situation of both mayoral candidates has flipped after an upset in the June Republican primary. Amy Sherburn, who secured the De...
By JOHN BARTIMOLE Special to Olean Times Herald 
October 18, 2025
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of six articles spotlighting the businesses making up the 2025 Laine Business Accelerator cohort. Artist...
Football, Local Sports, Sports
By By NICK SABATO - Niagara Gazette (TNS) 
October 18, 2025
Buffalo’s highest priority needs are at CB, WR and S Sean McDermott knew what was coming. He’s been here before. The Buffalo Bills have lost back-to-back games every year since he’s been the head coach. The Bills were 3-2 last year after Josh Allen went 9-of-30 in a loss to the Houston Texans. They ...
Football, Local Sports, Sports
October 17, 2025
Portville/C-R/B-R wins Springville shootout ELMA — Olean High had first-place Iroquois on the ropes. The Huskies mounted an impressive drive to tie th...
Football, Local Sports, Sports
By HENRY BUCHAN, Olean Times Herald 
October 17, 2025
FRANKLINVILLE — The Wilson football team kept its perfect and dominant season going on the road on Friday night, beating host Franklinville/Ellicottvi...
Local Sports, Soccer, Sports
October 17, 2025
PORTVILLE — Grace Gariepy collected a pair of first-half goals to key Portville to a 3-0 non-league victory over Ellicottville in its regular season f...
Local Sports, Sports
October 17, 2025
WV’s Klahn, A-L’s Wilczewski reach podium in Div. II IRVING — Several local athletes and teams competed at the prestigious Sunset Stampede cross count...
Local & Social
Local News, News
Oct 18, 2025
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer and educate the public on its symptoms, detection,...
Local News, News, NY State News
By JIM ECKSTROM jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Oct 17, 2025
Danielle Kielar of Olean, a kinship caregiver social worker employed with Catholic Charities of Buffalo, is the 2025 winner of the Cura Award for Outs...
Local News, News
Oct 17, 2025
OLEAN — Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) and Olean General Hospital (OGH), Kaleida Health facilities, will be hosting a community blood drives ...
Local News, News
Oct 17, 2025
OLEAN — Book lovers, bargain hunters and library supporters have reason to celebrate this month as the Friends of the Olean Public Library host a Flas...
Business, Local News, News
By RUSSELL GLOOR 
Oct 17, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: I am a woman, turning 65 this October (2025). It seems that deciding when to claim Social Security is complicated. I would like more inf...
Local News, News
Oct 17, 2025
ALLEGANY — Town of Allegany officials will conduct a budget work session at 6 p.m. Thursday in the board room at the town hall.
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By BOB CLARK bclark@oleantimesherald.com 
Oct 17, 2025
OLEAN — It took eight years, but the Olean Downtown Revitalization Initiative has been completed. As a paint sprayer truck laid down new traffic lane ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
By Olean Times Herald staff 
Oct 17, 2025
GREAT VALLEY — Pumpkinville continues hosting celebrated sculptor and caricature artist Eric Jones for a series of live, interactive pumpkin carving s...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Oct 17, 2025
ALLEGANY – Canticle Farm will host "Music in the Garden" on Sunday from 2-4:30 p.m. when three bands will play in support of the farm's food pantry do...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
Oct 17, 2025
ALLEGANY — The HomeCare & Hospice Foundation is calling on individuals, groups and local businesses across Cattaraugus, Allegany, Wyoming and Genesee ...
Crime and Courts
Crime, News, NY State News
By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press 
Oct 17, 2025
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in ...
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By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER marcie@bradfordera.com 
Oct 16, 2025
PITTSBURGH — A Bradford man pleaded guilty in federal court to 49 counts of wire fraud and money laundering in a cryptocurrency scheme to bilk million...
Crime, Local News
Oct 16, 2025
Olean Police Wednesday, 6:33 p.m. , Matthew J. Herbert, 45, of 133 S. Third St., was arrested on a warrant issued out of Olean City Court related to a...
Allegany County Source, Special Sections
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October 17, 2025
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October 17, 2025
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Bob Clark 
August 19, 2025
CUBA — The Cuba Circulating Library cut the ribbon Friday on the renovated Inez Hupp Memorial Youth Area. The $580,000 project was funded with an endo...
Local News, News
July 29, 2025
Benjamin Morgan of Allegany earned a Bachelor of Science in computer networks and cybersecurity from University of Maryland Global Campus this past sp...
Local News, News
By BOB CLARK bclark@oleantimesherald.com 
July 24, 2025
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October 17, 2025
ALBANY (AP) — New York's Republican State Committee on Friday suspended a Young Republican organization following the release of a group chat that inc...
Commentary, Opinion
October 17, 2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made no secret about his animosity toward the media. But his demand that press outlets pledge not to report “una...
Commentary, Opinion
By BILL HAMMOND 
October 17, 2025
ALBANY — Five years after the coronavirus pandemic, the state Department of Health is pleading ignorance about one of its most hotly debated policy ch...
Commentary, Opinion
October 16, 2025
Stocks plunged nearly 900 points on Oct. 10 after China opted to break out a flamethrower in its ongoing trade dispute with the United States. Preside...
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By WADE ROBERTSON 
October 18, 2025
“Oh, he’s just telling stories,” someone commented. I was shocked; why had this person spoken so? Was it jealousy of the attention it drew to the stor...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
October 17, 2025
DAYTON — The Cattaraugus County Department of Public Works will be closing County Route 2, also known as Cottage Road, between Merrill Drive and Dye R...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
KELLEN M. QUIGLEY kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
October 17, 2025
JAMESTOWN — Imagine being a child who knows only extreme poverty. You have never gotten a gift, nor have you ever seen your parents or grandparents re...
Local News, News, NY State News
October 17, 2025
More and more in the coming days and weeks, white-tailed deer will be moving — at that means drivers need to be extra cautious, the the New York State...
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By BOB CLARK bclark@oleantimesherald.com 
October 17, 2025
OLEAN — Usage of the John J. Ash Community Center continues to rise. Manager Terry Shaw reported that the center saw a decrease in usage during the CO...
Local Sports, Sports
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October 16, 2025
OLEAN — Reagan Deibler captured two individual wins, but the Olean girls swimming and diving team fell to Southwestern 113-53 on Thursday night. Deibl...
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