Local Columnists

For all the squawking that erupted in the wake of President Barack Obama’s executive action to expand background checks for gun buyers, including at g...

My wife doesn’t mess around when it comes to putting away the Christmas decorations. She loves the season, but she also loves order and neatness, and ...

Dr. Naheed Hilal didn’t want to go there. Regarding Donald Trump, that is, and his proposal laden with ignorance and bigotry for the banning of all Mu...

We baby boomers tend to think that we have to do things differently than those who came before us. In an attempt to hold off the aging process, many f...

SPCA volunteer Jim Freitag, in describing why he has volunteered at the shelter for three years, says, “Our SPCA has a bold and forward thinking philo...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Four touchdown passes were not enough to satisfy Ben Roethlisberger. Neither, apparently, were his 364 yards passing. The Pittsburgh...

It’s been a few years now since I made the discovery, delving into the holiday totes, as I do each December. One Christmastime, there it was, buried i...

With the parade and lighting season for Santa Claus Lane and the festive touches to storefronts, I can’t help but continue a conversation begun in the...

Finding the Olean Times Herald microfilm story from early December of 1995 was like hitting on a historical nugget. For the past several years, staff ...

The Pilgrims can be viewed differently today than when I was in grade school. Back then, the romantic legend of Squanto showing new Pilgrim farmers ho...

Something changed in the community while I was away. Large sculptures of squirrels now appear everywhere I go. Each has a different art theme. I asked...

This time a baby cooed in my arms as terror broke out abroad. You’re aware, eight Islamic State “brothers” took lives indiscriminately and created hav...

When I was a little kid growing up on Rock City Hill, I didn’t realize then that it was one of the prettiest places in the country. I may have had an ...

Author Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, “You can’t go home again,” in his novel by the same name, but that’s exactly what I’ve done after living many year...

Institutions of higher learning in the United States should be citadels of fairness and openness, where young people can share and debate diverse opin...

THUMBS UP: It was a positive step taken this past week to organize efforts for better utilization of the Allegheny River to boost tourism and enhance ...

THUMBS UP: The local Pink Pumpkin Project, a fundraiser to benefit breast cancer survivors, sold more than 1,000 decorated pumpkins, which were delive...

The Associated Press released a video last week displaying the destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria. The city has been under siege at t...