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For as long as I can remember (some 80 years now), I’ve listened to reports about bald eagles and California condors dying off. Years ago, we banned t...

The Common Council voted to borrow $1.6 million to build a splashpad. The vote was 5-2. This will cost the taxpayers $100,000 a year for years. In the...

At a recent family get-together, I was asked why I oppose renewable energy development in our rural communities. It’s a fair question, and one I must ...

OLEAN — Libraries across the United States will be celebrating National Library Week April 23-29 with the theme “There’s More to the Story.” That seem...

To promote industrial wind and solar, how far will we go? A proposal in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget would deny municipalities a role in appraising indu...

The Attorney General’s office waited. And waited. The bell tolled on the appeal deadline, and as the bell struck, Attorney General Letitia James filed...

In Wednesday’s edition of the Olean Times Herald, two letters to the editor in regard to the proposed city tax increase piqued my interest. Much of wh...

As I work through these months of losing my husband, Jim, I want to formally thank the entire team at HomeCare & Hospice, along with several individua...

Residents should be aware of the completely insufficient i ssues statement attorney Peter Sorgi submitted to the New York State Siting Board for the A...

As travel writers who drive all over the country, we return to our hometown of Olean each year, wondering what will be the same, what changed? Walking...

In the last two weeks there have been letters to the editor regarding caps on insulin prices. The first letter correctly referenced a $35 per month ca...

The League of Women Voters of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties would like to share some election FAQs with all citizens of both counties and beyond. ...

A dear young friend had been married for three years when she shared the exciting news: her first baby was on its way. Everyone was over-the-moon happ...

On July 27, Cattaraugus County legislators, in a committee designed to look after what’s best for our county and its residents, met to discuss a chang...

I am, as many are, concerned about where we are heading as a country in which government, both federal and state, controls more and more of our lives....

Long before the debacle of schooling children during the pandemic, public school education was undergoing a seismic shift from teaching the basics to ...

OLEAN — Common Council can afford a $1.5 million (and we all know it will cost more) splashpad but it rejected the city firefighters’ contract because...

This is written as a response to Gene Lyons’ commentary, “The Supremes Just Keep Delivering Hits,” which was filled with bold assumptions and insults ...