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I am writing this to make our community aware that St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Olean remains a parish and is not currently design...

February is Rare Disease Awareness month. The upcoming week has been declared Rare Disease Awareness week, with Rare Disease Day being Feb. 28. My hus...

An authoritarian coup is happening in the United States. And “we the people” are the only ones who can stop it. We must preserve and restore our democ...

My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with them or align with any p...

A newly proposed state mandate causes yet more consternation out of Albany under which the state Fire Prevention and Building Code Council would requi...

I am a Farmersville resident and a non-participating landowner in the Alle-Catt Wind Project. On Dec. 30, the Cattaraugus County Industrial Developmen...

President Donald Trump, his unelected co-president Elon Musk and the Project 2025 proponents never had a goal of making America great; their real goal...

When I became New York’s first-ever mom governor, I vowed to fight for our state’s children as if they were my own. I’m taking those efforts to our sc...

President Trump's shock and awe tactics against Democrats and the Deep State appear to be bearing fruit, but equally impressive has been his strong, u...

In Thursday's Olean Times Herald there are two articles: one includes information about President Donald Trump’s memo freezing federal money, and the ...

The Alle-Catt Wind Project has stalled due to Alle-Catt’s failure to fulfill two certificate conditions: noise compliance and an accepted decommission...

We support Gov. Kathy Hochul’s legislation to ban students from using smartphones and other internet-connected devices during the school day and urge ...

Budget adoption season is underway at the State Capitol, which means, first, that joint Senate-Assembly public hearings on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2025-26...

The New York State Legislature absolutely should get on board with Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal to impose a statewide ban on K-12 students' use of sma...

It always comes before me at the start of a new year. I don’t know if it’s like this on network channels, but I watch a news channel that seems to der...

Starstruck adulation is the last response you would expect rational, compassionate people to give to the acts of a cold-blooded killer. But such is th...

In the dying days of 2024, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act (S.2129/A.3351) and an expansion of the existing ban on hydraulic...

The left delights in pointing out the internal contradictions and tensions within the MAGA movement, of which, admittedly, there are many. No doubt th...