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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, New York, Opinion
Nov 30, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — This much is clear: Kathy Hochul is the first candidate from Upstate New York to win a governor’s race in many years. How many? That de...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 30, 2022
What is sure to be one of the weirder moments of the 2024 presidential campaign has just taken place before the campaign is even fully underway. Here ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 29, 2022
Joe Biden 2024 is a bad idea whose time has come. If Democrats had gotten the shellacking that seemed to be coming their way in the midterms, Biden mi...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 28, 2022
With Republicans gaining control of the House of Representatives, the federal government again will be “gridlocked,” as critics call it. Democrats sti...
Local Columnists, Opinion, Readers Turn To Write
Nov 28, 2022
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...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 28, 2022
If you’ve been yearning for a preview of the battle for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, the place to be last weekend was Las Vegas, where...
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Nov 26, 2022
OLEAN — The Olean Public Library is updating its long-range plan. The current plan, which is available on the Library’s website, expires at the end of...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 25, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — It's worth remembering that in 2012, the Republican Party was so dead in America that the Republican National Committee conducted ...
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Nov 24, 2022
COLONIE (TNS) — Two years ago at this time, Don Levy was a man undergoing what he described as a public root canal. His polling outfit, the Siena Coll...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 24, 2022
Think back five years to the frenzy of news reporting and commentary over what was called Trump-Russia “collusion” — the allegation that the 2016 Trum...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 24, 2022
BALTIMORE, Md. (TNS) — In 1957, the decade-old Centers for Disease Control prohibited individuals under 21 from receiving vaccines during the major in...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 22, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Seven days. That’s how much time the American people were given to rest and recollect between the 2022 midterm elections and the fi...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 22, 2022
The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving without football, but the game and the holiday have now become so intertwined that one almost wonders h...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 22, 2022
It’s a beautiful day when one of the world’s biggest rock stars talks about the benefits of capitalism. Global icon Bono is known for both his music a...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 21, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — When a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee announced last month that COVID-19 vaccines will be added t...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 21, 2022
Sunday was Joe Biden’s 80th birthday. Our first octogenarian president is two years older than Ronald Reagan was when his presidency ended in 1989. Bi...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Nov 21, 2022
When COVID shut down America in early 2020, millions lost their jobs and the government wisely expanded unemployment insurance — its eligibility, bene...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 20, 2022
NEW YORK (TNS) — There was a funny thing about New York’s brutal election. Congressional losses cost Democrats control of the House of Representatives...
Local News, News
August 26, 2026
On Aug. 8, when awakened by her daughter, Ila Webster said, "I made it; I'm 100 years old." While certainly aware that it was her birthday, Ila did no...
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...
