agriculture

We credit today’s edition to the Ischua Valley Historical Society, which offered a look back at “The Great Machias Winter of 1858-59” in its spring ne...

Most will agree Bob Fairbanks, born and raised in Portville, is a talker — and Fairbanks will concur. He’s perhaps best known about town from his time...

Remember to “spring ahead” and set your clocks one hour forward tonight for daylight savings time, which takes effect officially at 2 a.m. Sunday. Day...

BELMONT — Allegany County officials OK’d the return of a full-time outreach specialist in the Department of Health on Monday, using state funds to fil...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Land Bank Corp. should know soon if its application for seed money to fight blighted housing has been approved. The...

The syrup is flowing at Sprague’s Maple Farms in Portville — you may recall our coverage earlier this week — and Pfeiffer Nature Center is inviting fo...

PORTVILLE — Sprague’s Maple Farms usually produces between 5,000 and 7,000 gallons of maple syrup a year. Randy Sprague has only to look at the weathe...

ELKADER - Johnson’s Reception Hall in Elkader hosted a standing room only crowd of hunters, landowners and area residents on Monday night who were the...

Legislators voted 11-1 to authorize a memorandum of agreement with the Cornell Cooperative Extension Association of Allegany County and fund the progr...

ELLICOTTVILLE — More than a dozen Southern Tier commercial growers — including several Amish farmers — attended a daylong Cornell Vegetable Program me...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cattaraugus County has come a long way in just over a year since it split from a joint operation with...

SALAMANCA — A costly fire broke out in a storage barn on Mill Street behind the Holiday Inn Express between 10 and 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. According to Sa...

DuBOIS – U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Howard, Pa., will have a prime seat when Donald Trump is sworn in as the next president of the United States...

(TNS) I recently followed a drone through the ruined Syrian city of Aleppo, courtesy of YouTube. The destruction was sobering, to say the least. The c...

During the 17th century, Ganondagan, which the Seneca refer to as “Town of Peace,” was home to a thriving Native American population of approximately ...

ALLEGANY — In the 10 years Sister Joyce Ramage of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany has served as president of Canticle Farm, the all-natural, commun...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The Cornell Cooperative Extension director congratulated Cattaraugus County’s Cooperative Extension organization as it marked its firs...

Twenty-eight plows and sanders — plus a number of one-ton trucks with plows to clear intersections — are fueled up and ready for up to 2 feet of snow ...