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WELLSVILLE — Prayer gatherings this month at various Allegany County locations will highlight the second anniversary of county churches’ focus on “com...

“The three Cs in life: choice, chance, change. You must make the choice to take the chance if you want anything in life to change.” This quote by an u...

It felt a little like 1981 all over again. Circumstances are different, but the surprise, gratitude and mystery are the same. Here’s what happened tha...

The American Red Cross encourages people to help meet the urgent need for blood and platelets by resolving to give blood in January, National Blood Do...

As the new year gets underway, we offer wishes to all for a happy and healthy 2019. No doubt many of us have made resolutions to improve something in ...

OLEAN – Approximately 1,000 area residents had a merrier Christmas Tuesday because of the annual Christmas community dinner, hosted by the Basilica of...

If you ask many children why we have Christmas, most answers will be to get presents from Santa Claus. This is a lovely — someone who goes around the ...

OLEAN — There will be presents under the tree, a ham in the oven, and decorations strung across the walls. In some ways, the Genesis House homeless sh...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Santa arrived a few days early in downtown Olean. For the 37th year in a row, students from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute in Buf...

What is compassion? George Vaillant, in his book, “Spiritual Evolution,” gives persuasive evidence that to be human is to be compassionate. Evolution,...

OLEAN — The Rose Pappas Foundation Fund recently made possible a number of grants to support to local organizations that aid those in need. The fund s...

PORTVILLE — If you liked the Christmas lights last year at 947 Portville-Olean Road, “you ain’t seen nothing yet” — and Adam Parthemore’s got a five-y...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The Reading Center in the School of Education at St. Bonaventure University is offering a 10-week Learning to Read program for regio...

OLEAN — After a difficult year, the Olean Elks Lodge will once again help out needy families this holiday season. The West State Street social and cha...

OLEAN — All Veda Lynn Fillgrove, 5, wants for Christmas is her two front teeth. The Olean girl, along with about 125 other area children, had the oppo...

I’d been invited to my sister’s house in Ischua for Thanksgiving. Since I’ve been home, my presence on this day has been dependent on weather and road...

It’s the first week of December and the holiday-related activities are really packing the calendar, with several events slated through the weekend. To...

OLEAN — As a child growing up in Olean in the 1920s, young Ruth Evelyn Schnell Braun listened to Santa Claus on the radio with headphones, could buy a...