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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
Jan 25, 2012
I sent a letter to Dr. Colleen Taggerty, superintendent of Olean schools. This is what I wrote: We have a tiger by the tail with our schools. My wife ...
Editorial
Jan 25, 2012
To jump start our economy, we could start another war like World War II, which helped pull us out of the Great Depression. Iran looks like a good pros...
Editorial, Sports
Jan 23, 2012
Funny how two fantastically entertaining NFL conference championship games will instead be remembered for a pair of colossal gaffes and the players wh...
Editorial, Sports
Jan 20, 2012
Taking a timeout from the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team to focus on two other local hoops stories: an update on former Genesee Valley standout...
Editorial, Sports
Jan 19, 2012
ST. BONAVENTURE — After it was over, Jim Crowley had an interesting assessment. Following his St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team’s impressive 75-...
Editorial, Sports
Jan 18, 2012
He was special from the first time I heard from him. When Tyler Dunne was a 13-year-old middle-schooler at Ellicottville, he would send me his hand-ma...
Editorial
Jan 17, 2012
This is a second comment, following my concerns written on the day of the hydrofracking hearing in Dansville. I rejoice that much has improved since t...
Editorial
Jan 17, 2012
I came home after Christmas weekend and found a plastic bag hanging on my mailbox. Whoever this was from, thank you! The contents were very generous, ...
Editorial
Jan 17, 2012
I really don’t know anyone on the city block in Olean where the woman says she received an anonymous letter, presumably from a neighbor, chiding her f...
Editorial
Jan 17, 2012
I read the article about former Allegany town supervisor Patrick Eaton in the Olean Times Herald on Dec. 30. Mr. Eaton has devoted a lot of time to th...
Editorial
Jan 17, 2012
I’m a bit amused over the story of our U.S. Marines urinating on a fresh kill. These men are trained killers, probably some of the best trained in the...
Editorial
Jan 12, 2012
ST. BONAVENTURE — Now that’s the performance St. Bonaventure basketball fans had been expecting all season long. Just when the Bonnie faithful were ab...
Editorial
Jan 12, 2012
Two generations ago the discovery of retrievable gas from the Marcellus Shale would have been greeted with, “It’s there, we need it, let’s get it.” To...
Editorial, Sports
Jan 09, 2012
It was nice of the NFL to schedule the best game of wild-card playoff weekend for last ... Pittsburgh and Denver salvaged a pretty motley trio that op...
Editorial
Jan 05, 2012
ST. BONAVENTURE — This wasn’t the St. Bonaventure/Mansfield exhibition game ... it just appeared to be. Fans expecting the Bonnies and George Washingt...
Editorial
Jan 05, 2012
We would like to extend a most heartfelt thank you to everyone that made St. Mary’s Community Christmas dinner possible. The annual dinner was once ag...
Editorial
Jan 04, 2012
ST. BONAVENTURE — If there was any doubt about the increasing relevance of the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball program, it was answered Tuesday aft...
Editorial
Jan 04, 2012
On New Year’s Day, countless Americans made resolutions to quit smoking in 2012. While quitting smoking is extremely difficult, six out of 10 smokers ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News, ...
October 1, 2025
This might be the big weekend for leaf peeping in what New York’s tourism folks designate the Chautauqua-Allegheny region of the state, which includes...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
October 1, 2025
OLEAN — United Way of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties (UWCAC) announces the recipients of the 2025 Bill and Cathy Fraser Grants. This year, $9,219 i...
Local News, News
October 1, 2025
OLEAN — United Way of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties announced the recipients of the 2025 Bill and Cathy Fraser Grants, with $9,219 in funding awar...
Local News, News
October 1, 2025
CUBA — Cuba Circulating Library has been awarded the Children’s Book Project grant award from the Pilcrow Foundation, receiving 65 books from the orga...
Commentary, Opinion
October 1, 2025
What makes you nostalgic? Now it’s true, nostalgia can be a downer for some. It can be a longing for long-gone moments you’ll never get back — and mak...
Commentary, Opinion
October 1, 2025
There were at least 235,502 retirees across the country who collected a public pension of $100,000 or more in 2024 — costing taxpayers $30.6 billion —...
