Salamanca man charged with murder in city
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September 27, 2025
SALAMANCA — A Salamanca man was being held for the murder of another person in the city, Salamanca police reported Saturday. Andrew C. Skye, 35, of 31...

Editorial

American dream dims
Editorial
Sep 07, 2012
The American dream has always been the freedom to begin your own business and utilize the talents, abilities and hopes of men and women who need to pr...
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Monaco’s tale  a sad story in HS sports
Editorial, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Sep 04, 2012
Two Fridays ago, Williamsville South High School boys basketball and golf coach Al Monaco was summarily relieved of his duties. After 24 years as coac...
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Underwhelmed as Democrats start their show
Editorial
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Sep 03, 2012
The Republican convention never seemed to offer up any real sizzle — and certainly not specific details on plans for economic recovery. The Democrats ...
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Screenings for cancer are critical
Editorial
Sep 03, 2012
The Cancer Services Program of Allegany and Cattaraugus Counties would like to add its recommendation to The American Cancer Society that women aged 4...
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Who cares…
Editorial
By Pete Jermann Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Sep 03, 2012
As the election nears, beating dead dogs again reappears as a favorite liberal pastime. Perhaps the strangest dead dog is the one that says it is more...
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Curious cuts as Bills get down to 53
Editorial, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Sep 02, 2012
So what do we make of the Bills’ cuts? Well, let’s start with the fact that Buddy Nix, since he took over as general manager in 2010, has not done a s...
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Former Big 30 gridders dot college rosters
Editorial, Sports
Vinnie Pezzimenti Olean Times Herald 
Sep 02, 2012
Wellsville won its first ever sectional football crown in 2011. Four players who helped make it happen are now freshmen on college rosters. Quinton Sm...
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Bills leave preseason looking sick
Editorial, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Aug 31, 2012
On a night when 93-year-old owner Ralph Wilson was admitted to the hospital in “good condition,” with an illness, it was his Buffalo Bills who looked ...
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Is it pro-life, or pro-birth?
Editorial
JIM COSTANZA, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 31, 2012
With respect to the issue of abortion, the radical, repressive right has long maintained the fiction of being pro-life. And, while it is true that the...
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Kicking off the season with a few grid notes
Editorial, Sports
TOM ROOF Olean Times Herald 
Aug 30, 2012
A few final football notes while waiting for the start of the Big 30 season Friday night: FIRST-YEAR Smethport High School head football coach Jim Ber...
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A Congress that’s bought and paid for
Editorial
Aug 30, 2012
Please understand me. I don’t care two whoops whether Tom Reed and his wife went for a dip in the Sea of Galilee or not. Many people enjoy a swim on v...
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Left living its dream — right now
Editorial
JOHN STENGEL Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 30, 2012
I thank Dr. Barry Gan for his courtesy towards me in our debate earlier this summer on President Obama at the Olean Public Library. Too bad some in th...
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At AU, Murray starting to see the big picture
Editorial, Sports
JIM MELARO, Olean Times Herald 
Aug 27, 2012
ALFRED — At the end of the 2002 season, the Allegany-Limestone girls’ soccer team punctuated a 20-2-2 campaign by playing Immaculate Heart to a scorel...
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Pressing crisis being ignored
Editorial
Aug 25, 2012
Aug. 14 marked the anniversary of the Social Security Act. For those who are 65 and over, Social Security and Medicare continues to be a main source o...
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Some words to live by
Editorial
Aug 25, 2012
My heart goes out to all the victims of the Aurora, Colo., shootings and their families. These people were caught off guard in the terrible tragedy, w...
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Meaningful concussion discussion
Editorial, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Aug 25, 2012
ORCHARD PARK — Ask Mark Kelso how many concussions he suffered during an eight-year career as a free safety for the Buffalo Bills and the cerebral alu...
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