Leters to the Editor

For some time I have been concerned that the Olean Times Herald is a subsidiary to editorial columnists of the Washington Post. Now there is further p...

Martin Luther King Jr. accomplished much when he and his followers staged sit-ins at restaurants and boycotted city bus service in the South over disc...

On Sunday a motorcycle poker run was held, launching and ending at Good Times of Olean and making stops in Eldred, Coudersport and Galeton in Pennsylv...

The work on North Union Street has progressed far enough that the finished product is visible. Starting at the Main Street-North Union roundabout sout...

Section 109-a, Article 7 of the New York State Agriculture and Markets Law requires every person owning a dog to have it licensed. I don’t care what y...

We are writing this in response to the unexpected, overwhelming care we received from nearby witnesses to our bizarre, extraordinary accident at an Ol...

Good grief, what was the city of Olean thinking? Does no one in authority have a sense of design? Recently, I took note of the new street lights on No...

So much for the gentlemen’s agreement, which allows the party of the departing Cattaraugus County Legislator to choose his successor! I fully understa...

I feel I have got to step up and fight for the Pines nursing homes. My mom, Edna Kenyon, was in the Pines in Olean and they literally saved her life. ...

The Olean Area Summer Garden Walk Committee thanks those who participated in our Summer Garden Walk on July 9, as well as our ticket vendors, corporat...

War Veterans Park seemed like the perfect place for Art in the Park and Taste of Olean on July 24. It was large enough and the shade trees helped. I w...

In an era when “herd” mentality seems to be the norm for health care, I’d like to take a moment to reflect upon my polar-opposite experience with Eden...

Once again some of our Cattaraugus County legislators are considering the sale of our two county-owned nursing homes. Family members, employees and ev...

In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama defeated John McCain. In the 2012 election, Obama defeated Mitt Romney. McCain was a former prisoner o...

Amidst the violence, anger and hatred in our world there is some peace. There is a small, beautiful town nestled at the bottom of the Allegheny hills,...

Fellow black belt candidate Scott O’Brien and I organized a community service project for AKT Martial Arts Academy that included the painting of 130 o...

A news item recently detailed the groundbreaking for a new track at the Oswayo Valley School District in Shinglehouse, Pa. The track is being financed...

I am a retired radiologist and was mostly hospital-based in my 30 years of active practice. Radiologists are closely involved in most hospital patient...