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OLEAN — The routine appointment of a teacher aide has once again turned into a debate about whether more Olean City School District teacher aides shou...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The students sat as patiently as their second-grade bodies would allow while their George G. Blaisdell Elementary School teacher, Patr...

OLEAN — To motivate his faculty and staff for the new school year, Olean City School District Superintendent Rick Moore played a video of the 1972 Oly...

Dogs have successfully earned the moniker “Man’s Best Friend,” but some dogs are turning out to be an educator’s best friend, as well. Two dogs in Buc...

OLEAN — Kylie Jaspersen is going back to Africa — but this time she’s on her own. “I felt this tugging at my heart for a while, but after my last trip...

OLEAN — The Olean City School District is continuing to review possible new safety measures in light of recent school shootings across the country, ac...

If you’re part of the Baby Boomer generation, you’ve probably been around the block, career-wise. You may be retiring from your long-term career, or f...

Legislators in different states are talking about training and arming qualified teachers. This is ridiculous, since teachers would in classrooms teach...

No more flags lowered to half mast. We’ve seen it all too many times before. No more, “We are so sorry for your loss.” We’ve heard that way too many t...

FRIENDSHIP — A small, rural school district in Allegany County has lived up to its name again this winter. Friendship Central School District doesn’t ...

Fact of life: teachers are busy, both in the classroom and outside of it. Apps can be a godsend to help keep organized and improve the classroom exper...

When students go off to school each day they are tasked with much more than swallowing facts and figures. They’re learning to get along with others, s...

PORTVILLE — Even as Portville Central School District teachers and administrators cleaned out Dave Waugh’s sixth-grade classroom Friday — three days a...

OLEAN — In local kindergarten classrooms across the area Tuesday, there’s bound to be plenty of anxiety — and not just from the kindergarteners. A chi...

I felt compelled to comment on the latest op-ed by Pat Vecchio, which appeared in the June 7 edition. This latest piece by Vecchio is one of a number ...

OLEAN — A science project misfire caused a brief evacuation at Olean High School Thursday, including the dress rehearsal for Neighborhood School of Da...

OLEAN — Olean High School students are studying more film and other digital media in addition to regular print texts, thanks in part to grant-funded i...

We give credit to the Allegany Area Historical Association for today’s edition of State & Union: an article in its March newsletter features wording f...