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BRADFORD, Pa. — Pitt-Bradford Arts and the Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center have teamed up to bring a group of talented young musicians to the ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Avalon String Quartet, with mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley, will open the 2023-24 Friends of Good Music performance season at St. Bonav...

OLEAN — The Olean Theatre Workshop is presenting “The Taming of the Shrew” as its annual free Shakespeare in the Park production tonight, tomorrow and...

It’s early March and the maple trees are tapped for gathering their thin, clear sap. It looks exactly like water, but when tasted one can just detect ...

Let the show begin! Despite the winter setback late last week, strong southwest winds and unseasonably warm temperatures sped up the arrival of some o...

By the end of January, I’m already thinking about spring. In fact, planning for spring birding trips is one of my favorite late-winter activities, and...

I like to think of the Audubon Christmas Count as our “opening day” but unlike the opening day for big game, it doesn’t matter to me whether it’s too ...

CARING: Like a top emergency room team, staff and volunteers are always at the ready when an animal in trouble is brought in. A blind dog, a deaf cat,...

ROCHESTER (AP) — The former pacifist pumped a shotgun at the firing line. Lore McSpadden never touched a gun before the Trigger Warning Queer & Trans ...

Oct. 29 will mark the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy making landfall at Brigantine, N.J., where it tore up the Atlantic seaboard as a post-trop...

JAMESTOWN — Paul G. Barretta of Olean was a winner in the Audubon Community Nature Center’s 2017 Nature Photography Contest. His photo, “Two Birds on ...

In the last column I asked readers to contact me if they were seeing fewer ruby-throated hummingbirds this year than in previous years. If the respons...

Editor's Note: This column has been amended to clarify that p rairie falcons may be captured and trained by lawfully permitted falconers. I arrived in...

OLEAN — The annual St. John’s Church Festival is scheduled to return for its 35th year Saturday, bringing back a classic family atmosphere with a new ...

The way I see it, there are two kinds of people in the world: Those who like to fly and those who don’t. I’m in the second group. For me, there’s some...

OLEAN — Country music star Summer Sweeney, who has gained attention and accolades the past couple weeks for her emotional new video, “Bottle by My Bed...

Ever since a close friend contracted Lyme disease from an infected deer tick along the Allegheny River some years ago, I’ve done nightly tick checks a...

OLEAN — Arthur Miller’s tragic story of an aging, disillusioned salesman will be performed this weekend at Olean Theatre Workshop’s Washington Street ...