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August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
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Jan 11, 2023
Possibly you recall the “Information Superhighway,” a phrase popularized by then-Vice President Al Gore to describe the internet. The expectation was ...
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Jan 11, 2023
Republicans have spent two years demanding that President Joe Biden visit the U.S.-Mexico border. They wanted Biden to face the real-world consequence...
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Jan 10, 2023
Not all conspiracy theories are created equal. The same people who pride themselves on rigorously insisting on the facts — ideally, explained in the d...
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Jan 09, 2023
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked Texas colleges to disavow critical race theory, the University of Texas faculty approved a resolu...
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Jan 09, 2023
The only good thing about Kevin McCarthy scheduling his supposedly triumphant 14th House roll call vote that would finally make him speaker for 10 p.m...
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Jan 09, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of ...
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Jan 08, 2023
You expect your money to be safe in a bank, but if the Federal Reserve gets its way, that may not be the case soon. That’s because the Fed, which has ...
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Jan 08, 2023
After Joe Biden visits our nation’s border with Mexico this weekend, his detractors will no longer be able to assert that our president is simply igno...
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Jan 08, 2023
A new COVID-19 variant called XBB.1.5 is driving a new wave of infections. But susceptibility to it is not, as some contend, being fueled by vaccines....
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Jan 07, 2023
We learned some new things — or perhaps had our knowledge reaffirmed — by the frightening episode that began with the Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin coll...
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Jan 06, 2023
Pope Francis, 1.3 billion Catholics and the rest of humanity say goodbye today to Joseph Ratzinger after 95 years on Earth. A young man who lived thro...
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Jan 06, 2023
Will Rogers famously said: “I belong to no organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” He would have to dig deeper to find a gibe suitable for today’s...
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Jan 05, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — Farm workers and New York’s legislative staffers have some things in common. They both work schedules that can be unpredictable. They b...
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Jan 05, 2023
On Dec. 30, as Washington shut down for the Christmas-New Year holidays and Republicans prepared to take over the House of Representatives, Democrats ...
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Jan 04, 2023
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — District of Columbia Officer Michael Fanone and the others who responded to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, held the ...
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Jan 04, 2023
Long after it has run its course on TV, the show “Yellowstone” will provide fodder for countless Ph.D. candidates in whiteness studies. In certain pre...
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Jan 04, 2023
Today begins the 118th session of — don’t laugh — the world’s longest-running and arguably best-functioning national legislature, the two houses of th...
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Jan 03, 2023
There is "no better place to find God, and to help others to find him, than in the hearts of the women and men" of our time. The assertion — sometimes...
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August 25, 2026
Earlier this year, the state Senate adopted a resolution I co-sponsored once again proclaiming the month of May as Lyme Disease Awareness Month across...
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August 25, 2026
ANGELICA — Victoria Guite, state Senate candidate of District 57, will host a town hall 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 3 at the Angelica Free Library. The event wi...
Allegany County News, Local News, News
August 25, 2026
Allegany County Road 4 in the town of Hume — between Bottsford Hollow Road and Crotty Road — will be closed to traffic during working hours from 7 a.m...
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August 25, 2026
WELLSVILLE — The magic of Christmas will get a little more natural at the second annual Jingle & Glow Holiday Celebration, as Kent Farms of Andover jo...
Allegany County News, Local News, News
August 25, 2026
WELLSVILLE — The mayor opened the village board meeting Monday evening by addressing the arrest earlier this month of the village clerk, allegedly for...
