Warmer, wet week in forecast for Olean area
Brian McClellan 
February 16, 2026
It looks like we should get our first real melt event of the winter, with unseasonably warm temperatures and some rain expected this week. "We get a n...
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MONDAY HS HOOPS: Randolph wins another thriller over Warriors
Basketball, Local Sports, Sports
February 16, 2026
Cardinals down Salamanca in OT; A-L tops C-R/B-R RANDOLPH — After a wild season-opening meeting in which the Salamanca girls basketball team rallied from a 30-point deficit to nearly knock off Randolph, the two teams engaged in another thriller on Monday night. And much as they did back on Dec. 2, w...
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Sequerth wins 55m, leads Allegany-Limestone girls to fourth
Local Sports, Sports
SECTION 6 INDOOR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
February 16, 2026
Sequerth and Mackey set new A-L school marks HOUGHTON — After competing against the entire section across several Varsity Select regular season meets,...
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Bonnies rally falls short as Duquesne delivers late knockout
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
By HENRY BUCHAN, Olean Times Herald 
February 15, 2026
ST. BONAVENTURE — With 14 seconds left and with a two point lead, Duquesne junior Jimmie Williams pulled up from 29 feet late in the shot clock, hit n...
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Local & Social
Dominic Rogers marks 35 years at Cutco
Business, Local News, News
Feb 16, 2026
OLEAN — Dominic Rogers, vice president and director of IT for Cutco Corp., will celebrate 35 years of service on Feb. 18. Rogers joined Cutco on Feb. ...
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Hoodie Hoo: How it began and how it got to Shongo
Local News, News, NY State News
By KATHRYN ROSS news@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 16, 2026
SHONGO — Gold, Pa. is 150 miles from Lebanon, Pa., but that didn’t stop a tradition nurtured there to make the journey nothwest to become a happy holi...
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CA BOCES names Olean honor rolls for 2nd quarter
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, High School, ...
Feb 15, 2026
OLEAN — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES named its Career and Technical Education High Honor and Honor rolls for the second quarter of the 2025-26 academic ...
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Crime and Courts
Police reports 2/13/26
Crime, Local News
Feb 13, 2026
Olean Police Friday, 9:12 a.m. , Sean D. Dewitt, 33, of Franklinville, was charged with petit larceny, a class A misdemeanor. Dewitt was released with...
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Police reports 2/12/26
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Crime, ...
Feb 13, 2026
Olean Police Wednesday, 10:52 a.m. , no injuries were reported following a two-vehicle accident on Main Street. A vehicle operated by Caelyn N. Mett, ...
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Police reports 2/11/26
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Crime, ...
Feb 11, 2026
Olean Police Monday, 12:50 p.m. , no injuries were reported following a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of North Union and East State streets...
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Police reports 1/21/26
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Crime, ...
January 21, 2026
Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office OLEAN — John R. Roulo, 42, of Olean, was arrested at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on a violation of probation warrant issued ...
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Who’s to blame for an unfair US economy?
Commentary, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
February 16, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Billionaires are now Public Enemy No. 1 in America. Majorities of voters, in both parties, think the gap between the rich and poor is...
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GOP strategist: MAGA meltdowns will cost the election
Commentary, Opinion
By MATT WYLIE The Charlotte Observer 
February 15, 2026
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TNS) — Attorney General Pam Bondi took one of the most radioactive political issues in the country — the Epstein files — and detonate...
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Our era really is like the Civil War in one key way
Commentary, Opinion
By MATT K. LEWIS Los Angeles Times/TNS 
February 13, 2026
We’re one year in, and President Donald Trump’s second term has already produced a parade of problematic historical analogies. Critics have invoked Ki...
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