Breaking News
November 4, 2025
OLEAN — The 28th mayor of the city has been selected. Surrounded by officials from both the Republican and Democratic parties, first-time candidate Am...
Olean Times Herald
Allegany County News, Local News, News
August 22, 2020
In a picture he looks all of 14. But in fact he’s 24. My brother, Robert Littell, Alfred University alumnus, later to become a world-famous author of ...
Commentary, Local Columnists
March 23, 2018
Earlier this year I visited a woman who was gravely ill. She lay in a hospital cot, its side rails elevated. Her room was comfortably warm. Sunlight c...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
May 10, 2017
I recently stumbled on a curious publication. Housed in the archives of Alfred University and dated October 1876, the document — The Alfred Student — ...
Commentary, Local Columnists
January 30, 2017
Libraries are devoted to it. Books by the yard tell us what to think about it. Travel. A simple enough word. Yet what exactly is it? Why do we engage ...
