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...

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Great people out there
Editorial
Aug 24, 2012
It is great to know that there are still some amazing people out there. On Monday, my mom, Mary Ann Scanlon, and I took my three children to Twist and...
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Backus hoping to reestablish the KO Factory
Editorial, Sports
JEFF MADIGAN Olean Times Herald 
Aug 24, 2012
SALAMANCA – When Michael ‘Snake’ Tome passed away in May 2011, the future of The Knockout Factory — his Salamanca gym which trained men and women to b...
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Diesel is one big happy grid family
Editorial, Sports
JEFF MADIGAN Olean Times Herald 
Aug 23, 2012
OLEAN — Hanging around Bradner Stadium one final time after the regular season ended, several members of the Southern Tier Diesel semi-pro football te...
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A Q&A with UPB women’s hoops coach
Editorial, Sports
TOM ROOF Olean Times Herald 
Aug 22, 2012
BRADFORD, Pa. — When the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford women’s basketball team takes to the court this season, the Panthers will be playing und...
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Obama’s sense of justice
Editorial
Aug 22, 2012
The Russian court system sentenced three young women “punk rockers” to two years in prison for standing up in a church and criticizing Vladimir Putin....
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Fulfilling experience in Africa
Editorial
CARI MATEJKA Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 21, 2012
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “A mind stretched to a new idea will never again regain its original dimension.” I suppose that sums up how I feel after m...
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EverPower still needs road-use deal
Editorial
Mike Lippert Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 21, 2012
The Jan. 25 edition of the Olean Times Herald reported that the Allegany Town Board tabled a request for the use of Chipmonk Road to transport equipme...
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On Sundays, where are the young people?
Editorial
Brian Lothridge Olean Times Herald 
Aug 21, 2012
I used to think church was boring and irrelevant to my life. I thought I had much better things to do with my Sunday mornings. Church just seemed like...
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Nix missed on that gamble with Merriman
Editorial, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Aug 21, 2012
And so, the grand experiment ends. A bit surprisingly, but unceremoniously, the Bills cut defensive end/outside linebacker Shawne Merriman on Monday m...
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Davenport pleased with European trip
Editorial, Sports
J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Aug 17, 2012
For many of his brand-new teammates, this might have been more about the cultural experience than the basketball. For St. Bonaventure guard Michael Da...
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Don’t sit around, and keep a smile on your face
Editorial
BOB CLARK Olean Times Herald 
Aug 16, 2012
It’s easy to say “go get a job” when you’ve got one. Try being one of the one in every 10 adults on the “funemployment” line in the county, and you’ll...
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Bysiek’s team seeking the ‘Macker Slam’
Editorial, Sports
J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Aug 16, 2012
OLEAN — Over the last six summers, Ed Bysiek has become something of a Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament veteran. Bysiek, the principal owner of...
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Big 30: four new coaches for this fall
Editorial, Sports
TOM ROOF Olean Times Herald 
Aug 15, 2012
A few random notes while waiting for the start of the high school football season and the publication of the Times Herald’s 42nd Annual Big 30 Preview...
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Young will get a chance to prove himself
Editorial, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Aug 14, 2012
PITTSFORD — As the Bills’ season-opening exhibition game wound down last Thursday night at Ralph Wilson Stadium, the cynical media observation was: “L...
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Wallace offers thoughts on NASCAR scene
Editorial, Sports
Ken Leet Olean Times Herald 
Aug 13, 2012
SALAMANCA — It’s been seven years since he last climbed out of a NASCAR Sprint Cup car, but it’s easy to see that the fire is still burning. Rusty Wal...
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All can help to provide aid
Editorial
Aug 13, 2012
There is never a justification for murdering and wounding children or non-combatants. As we watch on the news, hundreds in Syria are daily being kille...
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Paterno was a multi-sided coach, man
Editorial, Sports
VINNY PEZZIMENTI Olean Times Herald 
Aug 09, 2012
The day following the release of the Louis Freeh report, Donald Gilliland, the fine investigative reporter for the Harrisburg-Patriot News and formerl...
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