Leters to the Editor

I enjoyed Jim Eckstrom’s column on frackwater in the April 19 edition of the Olean Times Herald. After more than 45 years in engineering, I have moved...

The first steps out of a "grief cocoon" can be daunting. When I timidly stepped out to join the Junior League (Coasters), director Terry Shaw encourag...

This week is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. This year’s theme, “Expand the Circle, Reach All Victims,” highlights how the investment of communit...

I found it extremely disheartening to read of the city of Olean possibly not funding the Olean Point Museum and the position of city historian. As Ear...

I was dismayed to read in the Olean Times Herald that the Common Council is considering cutting funding for the city historian in the 2018-19 budget. ...

I am hoping the Common Council will do whatever it can to make sure the Bartlett House is not closed or given to some independent body that cannot han...

Rep. Tom Reed has voiced strong support for the tariffs that President Trump is imposing on imported steel and aluminum, just as he’s done with every ...

The great tragedy and shame of the Catholic Church is how the bishops and cardinals moved priests from parish to parish — or looked the other way — wh...

The majority of Catholic priests are great, courageous, hard-working, holy men. The priests involved in the sexual misconduct scandals are a very smal...

Hydraulic-fracturing — or hydrofracking — wastewater contains hydrocarbons, such as benzene and toluene, in addition to salts, chemicals and radioacti...

The FBI, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts all see problems with Confucius Institutes. These Ch...

The Seneca Nation of Indians, by opposing the fracking wastewater treatment plant in Coudersport, Pa., has helped me heal from unjustly being given a ...

Legislators in different states are talking about training and arming qualified teachers. This is ridiculous, since teachers would in classrooms teach...

As a practicing Catholic I was very disturbed by the reporting of a Catholic priest, who served locally, confessing his guilt in committing sexual abu...

As someone who has had the opportunity to experience 17 years of a Catholic education, reading the article in the Times Herald about sexual abuse by a...

This call to ban “assault” rifles is missing the mark. There are no such “assault” forks, bats, boards, hammers or crowbars. Like any rifle, they are ...

We’ve seen the tragedy of the Florida high school shooting. With it came the seemingly never-ending discussions on guns and school safety. We heard th...

I’m an Olean High School graduate (class of 2003) and have lived in Washington, D.C. for the past 10 years. Wednesday night, as a D.C. school leader s...