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(EDITOR’S NOTE: This report is part of a question-and-answer series, “Of Distinction,” that is meant to highlight the hard work of community leaders i...

Sitting in front of the Olean Municipal Building, a time capsule has been waiting for a quarter century. Officials who helped plant the city's centenn...

It’s the time of year when the bounty of the area’s gardens and farms are on full display. But the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cattaraugus County...

I guess we’ve all heard the old adage about the journey being more important than the destination. I think that’s especially true when thinking about ...

PORTVILLE — Twenty years ago, the hillside on the top of Lillibridge Road in the town of Portville was a field of wildflowers and trees. Today, it spo...

Karen Everett of Houghton writes us about reacting to the July 31 edition of State & Union, in which Olean John Cappelletti shared his “small world” e...

New York state has given up what turned out to be a hopeless battle to defend its ash trees from an invasive beetle. The Times Union of Albany reports...

The last couple weeks of July signals the start of harvest season for luscious, sweet, blueberries that are ripe for the picking at farms throughout t...

PORTVILLE — Pfeiffer Nature Center is inviting the public to the annual Chestnut Cabin open house on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The American Chestn...

OLEAN — The first vegetables were planted Saturday in the city’s first community garden. Dozens attended the ribbon cutting for the garden at 402 W. G...

The African sun beat down from a cloudless sky, its brassy rays harsh and without pity. The parched landscape around us consisted of camelthorn trees,...

In the absolute blackness of predawn, the unseen world is as silent as thought, the sun, but a dream and the modern world we live in an illusion. What...

ALBANY (AP) — A beetle that has killed millions of acres of pines in southern forests is munching its way north, and new research suggests its tree-ki...

The Allegany Nature Pilgrimage marks its 60th year in Allegany State Park this Friday through Sunday. Centered at Camp Allegany on the Red House side ...

When I read in the Olean Times Herald that three successive wet springs meant fewer wild turkeys — and presumably fewer turkey hunters — I started pla...

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of camping season. And camping means gathering around the campfire, to talk and tell stories, and to make...

Now that spring is finally here, we’re all looking forward to the wonderful signs of the season, including flowers, birds, longer days and enjoying th...

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi, poet, 13th century “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning, poet, 19th cent...