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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...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 08, 2022
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, threatens to chomp on the hand that feeds it if Congress follows through on a law to prevent social media platfo...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 08, 2022
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Put aside all the funny memes of Sen. Josh Hawley running. Could it be that the soon-to-be senior senator from Missouri is vyin...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 07, 2022
What is former President Donald Trump thinking? On Saturday, he posted this statement on his social media network, Truth Social: “So, with the revelat...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 06, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Every presidential election year, when the pundits start buzzing about the Democrats’ nominee for president before Black voters ha...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 06, 2022
The U.S. job market is humming, with more than 10.7 million openings across the country. That’s good news. But what might be even better long-term new...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 06, 2022
The “Twitter Files” released by Elon Musk give us a more fine-grained understanding of how and why the social media company decided to censor the Hunt...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 05, 2022
As unregulated cannabis retailers proliferate around New York at eye-popping rates, the beleaguered legal businesses that only began to receive recrea...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 05, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — I spent the better part of a recent Saturday morning locked in an intense text-message debate with a dear friend. The topic ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 05, 2022
After more than a decade of U.S. policy focused on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, arms negotiations have been shoved off center stage...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 04, 2022
It’s happened to all of us: The holidays are here before you know it, and you’re scrambling for that last-minute gift. Maybe you procrastinated, but a...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Dec 04, 2022
It wasn’t such a heavy lift for the overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature in 2019 to pass the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, and it ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 04, 2022
CHICAGO (TNS) — In the beginning, God created the heavens, the earth and American higher education. We lived in a bucolic state of nature until an evi...
New York, Opinion
Dec 02, 2022
Gov. Kathy Hochul has begun to sign or veto hundreds of bills she left until after the election, yet two she’s yet to act on are no-brainers: vetoing ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 02, 2022
CHICAGO (TNS) — One of the most devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the debt it has created, a debt that we owe our kids that will b...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 02, 2022
Donald Trump’s allies praised him for his discipline during his announcement speech, when he mostly stuck to the script as written by his staff. Then,...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 01, 2022
Back when my wife and I moved to the country, many of our citified friends were alarmed. One well-meaning fellow even questioned if I’d be safe out in...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 01, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The video of “Chongqing Superman” has gone viral amidst the explosion of protests across China against the government’s “zero COV...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 01, 2022
Amid stubbornly high inflation, a national freight railroad strike is the last thing the nation needs. Supply chain disruptions that have created shor...
Football, Local Sports, Sports
August 26, 2026
Olean and Portville football programs prepare for historic Sept. 18 matchup as booster clubs, coaches and mayors join in the fun OLEAN — They are neig...
Cattaraugus County News, Local News, News, ...
August 26, 2026
SALAMANCA — Before their classroom education continues next week, a select group of Salamanca students spent part of their summer gaining a different ...
Cattaraugus County News, Crime News, Local News, ...
August 26, 2026
LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Sheriff Eric Butler is among more than a dozen county sheriffs challenging New York state in court over the “Local ...
Buffalo Bills, Football, Local Sports, ...
August 26, 2026
ORCHARD PARK — Dee Alford was surprised when the Buffalo Bills asked him to field punts in practice. It’s been three years since Alford returned an NF...
Local News, News
August 26, 2026
OLEAN — A push to ban public camping targeting homeless individuals came with requests for action to target the causes of homelessness. The Common Cou...
Local News
August 26, 2026
OLEAN – Eight recent Allegany-Limestone and Oswayo Valley graduates were awarded scholarships from funds managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community F...
