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WELLSVILLE — Jones Memorial Hospital has welcomed a new board-certified emergency physician to its emergency department. Dr. Julie Williams most recen...

New York tops the nation for inbound tobacco smuggling, according to a new report, which attributes the thriving underground market to the state's hig...

DEAR RUSTY: I am 76 years old and a retired high school counselor/teacher. I was married to my first husband from 1968 until 1981. He is still living,...

OLEAN — The snow and lights will be making Santa Claus Lane a winter wonderland on Friday to kick off the holiday season. The annual Greater Olean Are...

Small Business Saturday, a 15-year-old push to back local businesses as the holiday shopping season begins, will return this weekend. The U.S. Chamber...

OLEAN — Looking for a way to shop local for the hard-to-buy-for person? Give them 200 options with a single gift. Gift certificates from the Greater O...

OLEAN — “The hard part is over” in enacting a city hotel bed tax, city officials reported. On Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill S6671, whic...

BUFFALO — Two outstanding members of the local community, Marianne Laine and Blake Tarana, were celebrated for their philanthropic contributions at th...

OLEAN — The five cohort businesses from the 2024 Laine Business Accelerator program are preparing their presentations for the annual LBA Community Sho...

ALBANY (TNS) — The ability ofNew York'senergy grid to adequately handle future electricity needs is narrowing as power plants are aging and not being ...

OLEAN — Employees from Olean General Hospital andBradford Regional Medical Center took time to give back to the region by hosting food drives througho...

DEAR RUSTY: I turned 64 in July and my wife turned 62 in August. My wife has not worked for approximately 15 years but does qualify for Social Securit...

ELLICOTTVILLE — As a new ski season approaches, the staff at Holiday Valley and HoliMont ski resorts have been busy preparing the slopes and chalets t...

Area unemployment rates remained near or at historic lows in October, the state Department of Labor reported. The Cattaraugus County unemployment rose...

OLEAN — A company seeking to build a solar farm on Constitution Avenue will likely not move forward as the site selected is already under lease. The O...

Local sales taxes generally saw small declines in October, state officials reported. The Office of the State Comptroller reported that while 63% of co...

Average gasoline prices in New York have fallen 0.7 cents per gallon in the last week, while prices at most outlets in Olean dropped 6 cents on Tuesda...

OLEAN — Julie Groth, catalog supervisor for Vector Marketing Corp., a subsidiary of Cutco Corp., will retire Feb. 1 after 29 years of service. Groth f...