agriculture

OLEAN — A dinner hosted by the Olean Rotary Club Monday at Woodside Tavern on the Range recognized the contributions of two local service clubs toward...

From a race for fire chief and the need for more hydrants to a hearing on a new canal, from new buildings springing up to honoring Friendship’s Black ...

OLEAN — The Olean Rotary Club will present its sixth annual Service Above Self Award jointly to the Enchanted Mountain Garden Club of Allegany and Ole...

ALBANY — Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels. But in some modern supermarkets, they're bagged or wrapped in plastic too. For Judith Enck, that's...

PORTVILLE — The Portville Central School District has announced its third quarter honor rolls for the 2023-24 school year. HIGH HONOR ROLLS Grade 12: ...

Nora Wilson Wheeler Logging and sawmilling are among the many skills the Amish employ in their work, so much so that the women drive the teams that he...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Members of the Nannen Arboretum Society will celebrate Arbor Day and hold a special meeting April 26 with an open house. Volunteers pl...

A bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows has grown to affect more than two dozen herds in eight states, just weeks after the nation's largest egg produc...

ITHACA — Cornell University virology experts are sequencing the bird flu virus that struck cows in the Texas panhandle last month, after work at Corne...

Mayor William J. Aiello announced that the Downtown Olean Beautification Committee has elected Danielle Eaton as chair, replacing Pat Driscoll. John B...

NEW YORK — New York’s cannabis industry was unsettled Thursday by a judge’s ruling that appeared to strike down all regulations governing recreational...

Low maintenance, beautiful flowers and plenty of varieties have made hydrangeas a favorite landscape plant. It seems you can’t visit a garden center o...

Almost all of Cattaraugus County and roughly half of Allegany County will be in the path of totality of the April 8 total solar eclipse — when the moo...

It won’t be long before the dedicated leek hunters and diggers will start presenting recycled butter or cottage cheese containers filled with leek dip...

Low maintenance, beautiful flowers and plenty of varieties have made hydrangeas a favorite landscape plant. It seems you can’t visit a garden center o...

OLEAN — It’s time to make the area a little more colorful and support Genesis House. The nonprofit homeless shelter announced the 26th annual geranium...

GENEVA — As the climate changes, winter is shortening, causing vines and trees to bud earlier in the year, thereby increasing the chances they will be...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Hundreds of young students in Cattaraugus County schools excitedly learned about strawberries last week from the Cattaraugus County 4-...