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OLEAN — The 50th annual BasilicaFEST gets underway Friday outside the 107-year-old Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels on West Henley Street. BasilicaF...

OLEAN — The 50th annual BasilicaFEST will run for three days starting Friday, June 10 outside the 107-year-old Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels on W...

What are your favorite words? What’s the best thing anyone has ever said to you? What’s the best thing you say to others, and maybe need to say to you...

BUFFALO — Appeal 2022 in support of Catholic Charities of Buffalo and the diocesan Fund for the Faith, has reached the $5 million mark. Appeal officia...

Andover jewelry artist Stephen Walker will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a busman’s holiday to the Emerald Isle. He is giving a presentation on Cel...

OLEAN — Christian artist/composer Fernando Ortega is grateful for a career that has spanned more than 25 years. He will bring his artistry to Olean Fi...

ST. BONAVENTURE — A top administrator of a Jesuit university in Pennsylvania has been named the 22nd president of St. Bonaventure University. Dr. Jeff...

Lent has just started. This is a traditional time of going deeper in your life of faith. What are your plans for deepening your faith during Lent? Man...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — The way a lawsuit tells it, an illegal marijuana market made life difficult for the friars at a Catholic church on the city’s North S...

Today we wish a happy 90th birthday to Helen Stayer of Olean, at the urging of her daughter, Roberta Mahar. Ninety years ago, Helen Rose, the only dau...

The holiday season is well past, but the Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce has a related question: What local landmark should be chosen for the 2...

OLEAN — Members of Creating Outlasting Love for Our Rainbow Society (COLORS) celebrated their ninth annual Christmas party and family adoption in a sp...

OLEAN — For two years, Allison “Holly” McCarthy and her husband, Jared, of Olean, have been collecting and donating toys, about $10,000 worth, to the ...

For 150 years, organizations and businesses, as well as significant events that affected the area, all celebrated special anniversaries in 2021. The O...

Christmas is a season, not just a day. And it only begins on Dec. 25. The Rockefeller Center tree and elves on shelves and all the rest can be deceivi...

This holiday season has seemed a bit strange to me. We haven’t had a lot of snow so far, which is good … but also bad, because I think that helps me g...

OLEAN — A group of local musicians will present a free Christmas concert, “Did You Know it Was Love?” at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Basilica of St. Mary of ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Tagging along with his grandfather to various job sites brought a young Jamie Peace to St. Bonaventure’s campus in the early 1960s. ...