Breaking News
August 27, 2025
OLEAN — An Olean man has been sentenced to three to nine years in state prison for a 2023 hit-and-run incident on Seneca Avenue that resulted in a wom...
Olean Times Herald
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
July 21, 2016
I read Madison Carlson’s recent commentary about Hong Kong and Singapore. From 1968-73 I visited Hong Kong three times and spent four months at univer...
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
July 19, 2016
I read Madison Carlson’s recent commentary about Hong Kong and Singapore. From 1968-73 I visited Hong Kong three times and spent four months at univer...
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
December 9, 2015
I am a resident of Allegany County, but I respectfully ask that Cattaraugus County legislators consider my opinion. The talking points expressed Thurs...
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
January 22, 2015
T he main battle between the American hard left and the common-sense majority is being waged in New York City, and its outcome may predict the future ...
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
December 8, 2014
President Obama simply cannot bring himself to act as if maybe the former Ferguson, Mo. police officer, Darren Wilson, has human rights too. Imagine b...
Editorial
January 29, 2014
As I remember it, Barry Goldwater once described Hubert Humphrey as “Hubert Horatio Wind, who speaks at the rate of (several hundred) words per minute...
Editorial
June 2, 2013
To my fellow hunters, gun owners and others willing to listen: Ever wonder why the political left is so adamant about controlling “gun crime”? It read...
Editorial
February 23, 2013
My, you lefties get upset about being opposed. Mr. Thomas Krampf, an equestrian statue of me? Well! Can I get a New York Council for the Arts grant an...
Editorial
February 3, 2013
I write to answer Pat Vecchio’s column (“Regretfully, Plenty of Name-Calling to Go Around”), who had written in response to Nate Smith’s letter to the...
