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The heck with rain on your wedding day. Some call it bad luck. Others say it’s good luck, a sign of fertility, renewal and growth. Still, others symbo...

Talk about improvements. The SPCA needs them, and downtown Olean is awash in them. Olean has a gorgeous new entrance to downtown from the north. A per...

At times, I want to toss my GPS, or at least its base, out the window. And, after a recent incident during a trip to an assignment, I almost did just ...

Stepping out the back door Wednesday, I could feel a cooler wind. A few raindrops spattered down, but I just stood there, letting the drops hit me for...

Thinking about writing a column for Labor Day, I tried to identify the first “labor” skill I acquired. I thought about cutting grass — at least, cutti...

Those little, brown pieces of paper are my nemesis. You know, those leftover shreds that seem married to the drywall after you’ve stripped off the wal...

The news that a drive-by shooting had taken the lives of three people and wounded four after a community basketball game last week at the Boys and Gir...

The Cattaraugus County Campus of Jamestown Community College will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2016. Throughout these four decades, JCC has been ...

Some reflections after a busy weekend … My hat’s off to the Gus Macker organizers for the job they did this year in pulling the tournament off in what...

If the Minnesota dentist, who has become Public Enemy No. 1 in animal-rights and anti-hunting circles, indeed killed Cecil the lion in circumstances t...

Since moving to the Southern Tier nearly two years ago, I’ve been searching for an outdoor activity that caters to my adventurous and exploratory natu...

When I was a little boy, my father, Frank, and I would take nightly walks on his semi-regular visits, gazing skyward as we strolled the streets of Cub...

I was spending another weekend at a travel basketball tournament site — this one at North Allegheny High School in the Pittsburgh area — and during a ...

In the classic John Ford-directed Western, “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,” John Wayne’s character allows the Southerners in his U.S. Cavalry troop to hono...

My bedroom might as well have been undiscovered ancient ruins one night earlier this week. The room was pitch black, except for the one sliver of ligh...

One of America’s premier groups in Southern Gospel vocal music, Gold City, will come at 3 p.m. July 5 to Olean’s First Baptist Church for a concert. D...

S mashing Pumpkins, a Chicago-based alternative rock band that entered the mainstream in 1993, is my all-time favorite band from the ‘90s. The Cranber...

Uncle Jeff always said, “God promises you threescore and 10, and the rest is just a gift.” That’s 70 years for those unfamiliar with antiquated saying...