Lifestyles

Readers agree: Hummingbirds down this year
Local, Outdoors
JEFFREY REED, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 16, 2017
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...
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Quest for the prairie falcon, Part II
Local, Outdoors
JEFFREY REED, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jul 11, 2017
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...
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St. John’s Church fest back to tradition
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JESSICA HARKER, Olean Times Herald 
Jul 10, 2017
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 ...
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Birding: Quest for the prairie falcon, Part I
Local, Outdoors
JEFFREY REED, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jul 05, 2017
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...
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Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’ worth seeing, pondering
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MARIE RAKUS / Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jun 16, 2017
OLEAN — Arthur Miller’s tragic story of an aging, disillusioned salesman will be performed this weekend at Olean Theatre Workshop’s Washington Street ...
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Birding: Thru-migrants rare this spring
Local, Outdoors
JEFFREY REED, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jun 15, 2017
If you feel like spring came and went a little too quickly this year, you’re not alone. I was left wondering what happened to our waves of thru-migran...
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Another abandoned dog saved
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JENN PANEPINTO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Apr 17, 2017
As manager of the SPCA, I get many of the emergency calls. I received a call Jan. 25, one of the few cold, snowy nights we had this winter. My animal ...
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Follow the yellow brick road…
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Apr 03, 2017
The Portville Central School Drama Club put on "Oz! The Musical" on Friday and Saturday at Portville Junior Senior High School.
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