Portville’s Bray named Youth of the Week
December 16, 2025
The Cattaraugus County Youth Bureau announces that this week’s featured Youth Citizenship Award recipient is Samantha Bray, the daughter of Scott and ...
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Changeable weather in forecast for this week
Brian McClellan 
December 15, 2025
The coming week will see plenty of weather fluctuations, with temperatures rising into the 40s at times as well as the chance for wind and more precip...
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McDermott’s Bills are the NFL’s new face of consistency, but it won’t matter without a Super Bowl
Football, Local Sports, Sports
By By NICK SABATO - Niagara Gazette (TNS) 
December 16, 2025
TreVeyon Henderson’s 52-yard touchdown run seemed to be the last straw. The Buffalo Bills, fighting to keep their AFC East championship hopes alive, were sluggish offensively and out of sorts defensively. They looked lost, out of position and unprepared as the upstart New England Patriots smacked th...
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Ellicottville tops Southwestern for tournament title
Local Sports, Sports
December 15, 2025
A-L, Salamanca, C-R, Fillmore all with weekend wins LAKEWOOD — On Friday night, the Ellicottville boys basketball team used a key fourth-quarter spurt...
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A-L sets school indoor 800 record at Houghton
Local Sports, Sports
December 15, 2025
Gators, Warriors combine to set 6 new school marks HOUGHTON — The Allegany-Limestone and Salamanca indoor track and field teams broke a combined six s...
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Local & Social
STCS brings live Nativity to Olean community
Local News, News
Dec 16, 2025
OLEAN — Southern Tier Catholic School students Saturday shared the true meaning of Christmas during their live Nativity celebration held as part of th...
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Santa on the Rooftop returns Saturday
Local News, News
By BOB CLARK bclark@oleantimesherald.com 
Dec 15, 2025
OLEAN — Good old Santa Claus will make his rooftop return on Saturday in Boardmanville. The Pancio family will host Santa on the Rooftop from 6:30-7:3...
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Vape shop reportedly robbed in Eldred
Local News, News
By SARA FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
Dec 15, 2025
ELDRED, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Police were searching for a robbery suspect after an incident at a vape shop in Eldred on Monday afternoon. Gambit Ru...
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Scenes from Jingle Bell Jubilee in Olean
Local News, News
Bob Clark 
Dec 15, 2025
OLEAN — The Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce Jingle Bell Jubilee was held Saturday at Lincoln Park. Visitors were treated to a holiday market, l...
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Crime and Courts
Police reports 12/12/25
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Crime, ...
Dec 12, 2025
Wellsville Police Thursday, no time provided , Nichole R. Lee, 30, of Wellsville, was charged with third-degree burglary, a class D felony, and petit ...
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Potter Co. man charged with murder in boy’s 2024 death
Crime, Local News
By SARA FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
Dec 12, 2025
COUDERSPORT — In July 2024, a 5-year-old Coudersport boy was rushed to UPMC Cole in cardiac arrest. He was soon flown to Janet Weis Children’s Hospita...
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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...
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Renewing the call for the PROTECT Act
Commentary, Opinion
By SEN. TOM O'MARA 
December 16, 2025
I stood with colleagues in the Senate Republican Conference earlier this month to renew our call for what will be one of our top priorities when a new...
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Letter to the Editor: No billionaire left behind
Commentary, Opinion
December 15, 2025
The Department of Education is being parceled out to other departments, making it easier to close the department as proposed in Executive Order 14242 ...
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Not so fast on the merger of Netflix and Warner Bros.
Commentary, Opinion
By NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
December 15, 2025
The recent announcement that Warner Brothers, a Hollywood institution for more than a century, will be acquired by Netflix, one of the wokest of the w...
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