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Salamanca students attend Youth Leadership Forum in Albany
Salamanca students attend Youth Leadership Forum in Albany
By DEB EVERTS news@oleantimesherald.com 
February 14, 2026
SALAMANCA — Ten student leaders from the Salamanca City Central School District traveled to Albany to attend this year’s New York State Youth Leadersh...
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Flanigan’s legacy lives on at new Salamanca ice pond facilities
Flanigan’s legacy lives on at new Salamanca ice pond facilities
KELLEN M. QUIGLEY kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
February 13, 2026
SALAMANCA — For over 100 years, tens of thousands of Salamanca youth learned to stake, played pick-up hockey games and competed in speed-skating races...
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Bonnies Fall to Duquesne despite Double-Double from Mitchell
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Bonnies Fall to Duquesne despite Double-Double from Mitchell
February 14, 2026
ST. BONAVENTURE –  Despite a 20-point, 13-rebound double-double from Frank Mitchell, the St. Bonaventure men's basketball team fell to Duquesne, 78-73, Saturday night (Feb. 14) at the Reilly Center. Mitchell shot 9-for-15 while tallying four assists, one block and one steal. Dasonte Bowen returned t...
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Myers, Benjamin power Ellicottville past North Collins
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Myers, Benjamin power Ellicottville past North Collins
February 13, 2026
Salamanca tops Southwestern for Senior Night win ELLICOTTVILLE — A.J. Myers collected 20 points, three assists and three steals and Rylan Benjamin tot...
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Bridging generations on the mat
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Bridging generations on the mat
By HENRY BUCHAN, Olean Times Herald 
February 13, 2026
OLEAN — Rich Morton knows wrestling history. He competed at Ithaca College in the late 1970s and spent 41 years as coach for Salamanca’s wrestling tea...
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Former NFL head coach John Fox joining Bills as senior assistant
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Former NFL head coach John Fox joining Bills as senior assistant
February 13, 2026
ORCHARD PARK (AP) — Former NFL head coach John Fox has joined the Buffalo Bills' staff as a senior assistant coach, the team announced Friday. The 71-...
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CA BOCES names Olean honor rolls for 2nd quarter
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CA BOCES names Olean honor rolls for 2nd quarter
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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CA BOCES names Belmont honor rolls for 2nd quarter
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CA BOCES names Belmont honor rolls for 2nd quarter
Feb 15, 2026
BELMONT — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES named its Career and Technical Education High Honor and Honor rolls for the second quarter of the 2025-26 academi...
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Police reports 2/13/26
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Police reports 2/13/26
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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Sempolinski delivers Valentine’s made by area school children to seniors
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Sempolinski delivers Valentine’s made by area school children to seniors
KELLEN M. QUIGLEY kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 13, 2026
OLEAN — Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski delivered hundreds of handmade Valentine’s Day cards from area school children to elder-care facilities in the Ole...
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NYS increasing points for driving violations starting Monday
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NYS increasing points for driving violations starting Monday
By JIM ECKSTROM jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 13, 2026
New York motorists will face steeper penalties under a revamped point system that is set to fully take effect on Monday, part of an initiative that be...
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Ellicottville resident shares winter encounter with barred owl
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Ellicottville resident shares winter encounter with barred owl
By Olean Times Herald staff 
Feb 13, 2026
Bailey Schroeder of Ellicottville shared a photo and a story from a recent winter evening that, in her words, "was emblematic of winter life in our re...
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Police reports 2/12/26
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Police reports 2/12/26
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
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Police reports 2/11/26
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
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Police reports 1/21/26
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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Our era really is like the Civil War in one key way
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Our era really is like the Civil War in one key way
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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Real progress on federal regulatory reform
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Real progress on federal regulatory reform
February 13, 2026
President Donald Trump ran on a platform that included downsizing the bloated federal administrative state. He has more than delivered. In January 202...
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