High School, Local Sports, Soccer, ...
Sep 19, 2019
FILLMORE — In a drama-filled game, Filmore (5-0-1) leapfrogged Bolivar-Richburg (6-2-1) for first place early on in the Allegany County Division I gir...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Sep 08, 2019
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It was billed as a matchup of two of the top quarterback picks in the 2018 draft: New York’s Sam Darnold, the No. 3 overall se...
Big 30, High School, Olean, ...
May 29, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — The victory Olean High pulled off Tuesday afternoon is often required of teams to win sectional titles and advance deeper. The Huski...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Apr 04, 2019
CATTARAUGUS — While the final score may look to tell otherwise, Franklinville kept within reach of the Cattaraugus-Little Valley softball team until t...
Basketball, Big 30, High School, ...
Mar 09, 2019
ROCHESTER — Jeff Anastasia politely disagrees with Raymie Auman. After Auman’s Wellsville boys basketball team fell to press-heavy Greece Odyssey, 63-...
Basketball, College Sports, Columnists, ...
Feb 21, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — The finish was, uhhh, unusual. It was a critical game for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team on Wednesday night at the Reilly...
Outdoors
Feb 02, 2019
DUKE CENTER, Pa. — The Otto-Eldred BirdDawg trap team took its first steps in kicking off the season Jan. 12 at the Otto Township Fire hall. The team,...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Jan 04, 2019
The holidays are over and now we must stare into “the long dark teatime of the soul” that is winter in Upstate New York. But as it is a new year, it’s...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Nov 08, 2018
Merwin Geise was born in 1896 in the Haskell area. Growing up on King Street in Olean, he couldn’t have had any notion that, as a young man, he would ...
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
Nov 03, 2018
ST. BONAVENTURE — Before Friday, most of the preseason attention had centered on his classmates. Kyle Lofton was the highly regarded point guard who h...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Oct 28, 2018
BOLIVAR— Four years ago, the outcome of Saturday’s Section 5 Class D2 championship didn’t seem possible for the Hinsdale girls soccer team. At that po...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Oct 22, 2018
Soccer is a way of life for Kuzma Harmon. Adopted from Russia when he was only four years old, the Friendship senior immediately gravitated toward the...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 20, 2018
COUDERSPORT, Pa. — There have been plenty of memorable finishes in the storied history of Smethport Hubber football. But perhaps none were as wild — o...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Oct 13, 2018
ORCHARD PARK — His numbers were hardly awesome, 10-of-19 passing for a lowly 82 yards. Last Sunday’s 13-12 win over Tennessee was actually a product o...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Oct 09, 2018
OLEAN — COLORS Unity raised more than $700 for the Alzheimer's disease patients during its second annual fundraiser last month, and will now take in m...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 06, 2018
COUDERSPORT, Pa. — It was a perfect storm of motivations for Coudersport’s Homecoming game: a showdown with their archrivals from Otto-Eldred, who had...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Sep 01, 2018
SALAMANCA — Paul Haley’s team had enough turnovers and missed passing opportunities to drive any coach mad, but that didn’t stop Salamanca from claimi...
Baseball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
Jun 18, 2018
OLEAN — Give Brian O’Connell this, the Olean Oilers owner/manager is prescient. Before Sunday afternoon’s game against the Genesee Rapids at Bradner S...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
Ruth M. Baillargeon, mother, grandmother, sister BELFAST --- Ruth M. Baillargeon, 82, of Belfast, New York, passed away Monday, June 16, 2025 at High...
June 16, 2025
Robert E. Stephens PORTVILLE === Robert E. Stephens of 24 Finch Street, passed away on Friday, June 13, 2025 at the Cuba Memorial Skilled Nursing Faci...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I talk about what’s happening in Albany — but the failures keep repeating. This year was no different. Whil...
