News
Sep 22, 2022
OLEAN — The phone system at the Olean Municipal Building will be temporarily out of service starting at 6 p.m. Monday. The length of the outage is unk...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, News
Nov 15, 2021
LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office has recently received several complaints regarding fraudulent phone calls, in which the caller...
Outdoors
May 08, 2021
Perhaps the most entertaining aspects of spring gobbler season involve the neverending series of mistakes my friends and I make every spring. This yea...
Crime, Local News, News
Apr 14, 2021
OLEAN — City police are cautioning that scammers are calling and making up claims of parking tickets to steal personal information. The Olean Police D...
News
Mar 14, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime adviser to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo leading the state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been calling county executives to ga...
Local News, News
Nov 19, 2020
Readers know that we love our wildlife stories. Well, this one is a real hoot! The New York Daily News reports that workers found a little owl tucked ...
Local News, News
Sep 28, 2020
From getting through Ellis Island to Olean to one last war drive, from helping get POWs freed to not looking far for a bomb threat caller, here’s a lo...
Nation, NY State News, Outdoors
Jul 29, 2020
HARPSWELL, Maine (TNS) — The small public beach nestled into Mackerel Cove would usually be full on a hot summer day, but it was mostly empty Tuesday ...
Leters to the Editor
Mar 22, 2020
I would like to thank Cattaraugus County for the press release made this week regarding The Pines Healthcare and Rehabilitation Centers. It is good to...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Dec 05, 2019
Phone scams involving Social Security are popping up again. The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning Wednesday that the office has bee...
Cattaraugus County, News
Aug 24, 2019
SALAMANCA — A fire broke out Friday morning in the second story of a Salamanca home, leaving minor visible charring outside and resulting in an estima...
Jul 19, 2019
Q: We recently discovered that our 12-year-old has been visiting pornography sites of all sorts on the internet. When we caught him red-handed, he beg...
Commentary, Local Columnists
Apr 01, 2019
I’ve learned this week that sometimes it takes a bit of determination, maybe even tenacity for the task, to get to a desired goal. In a previous colum...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Mar 09, 2019
YORKSHIRE — A barn fire in the town of Yorkshire was still active as of press time Friday night. Calls over the Cattaraugus County emergency scanner a...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Feb 26, 2019
COLDSPRING — Two people were killed in an early Saturday morning mobile home fire, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday. The sheri...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Nov 07, 2018
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed was re-elected to a fifth term on Tuesday, defeating Democratic challenger Tracy Mitrano in a hard-fought battle for the 23rd Congr...
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
Nov 02, 2018
Since I first became Ashford town supervisor, Rep. Tom Reed and his team have been extremely committed to providing critical support to the West Valle...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Oct 30, 2018
OLEAN — No injuries were reported following an early morning fire call to an Eighth Street home Monday. The fire was reported to the Olean Fire Depart...
Crime, News
June 16, 2025
OLEAN — A West Valley woman faces felony welfare fraud charges following an investigation, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office reported. Nicole L....
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
More rain is on the way for the Olean area in the coming week, though the National Weather Service predicts a lower chance for severe weather than the...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
OLEAN — The regular monthly meeting of the Olean Public Library Board of Trustees will be held Wednesday, June 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the library's Conf...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BRADFORD, Pa. — To understand the engineering challenges they had set before them, members of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s Baja Racing C...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BRADFORD, Pa. — In August 2024, Keating Township supervisors Dave McClain, John Anderson and Ryan Herzog adopted a protective ordinance that attempted...
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. ...
