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November 4, 2025
OLEAN — The 28th mayor of the city has been selected. Surrounded by officials from both the Republican and Democratic parties, first-time candidate Am...
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Jun 16, 2017
OLEAN — Their careers spanned 45 years of competition. That’s the gap that separates the youngest and oldest graduates being honored at Saturday’s Ole...
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Jun 15, 2017
How do you make a baseball hall of fame without ever playing the sport competitively? Oh, you just need nearly a half-century dedicated to coaching th...
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Jun 03, 2017
John Dry and Jay Weitzel go back a long time. Weitzel officially took the Olean Oilers’ head coaching job in March following Bobby Bell’s decision to ...
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Jun 01, 2017
New coach Jay Weitzel knows the 2017 Olean Oilers won’t be like the 2016 Olean Oilers. But that doesn’t mean the New York Collegiate Baseball League c...
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May 23, 2017
Final thoughts on the inaugural New York/Pennsylvania Corporate Cup Soccer Showcase and an overdue apology to Fillmore baseball coach Bill Nolan, who ...
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May 20, 2017
ST. BONAVENTURE — For Kris Linderman and Dave Talbot, tonight a vision will become reality. It was only six months ago when the Olean Soccer Club pres...
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May 18, 2017
He’s familiar with most, if not all, of the players from scouting or coaching against them in high school soccer, but Jon Luce said he’s never had to ...
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May 04, 2017
It was only five months ago that Mark Ward joined fellow Western New York coaches, athletes and administrators in being inducted in the Section 6 Hall...
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May 01, 2017
If you play, coach or follow softball in the Twin Tiers, odds are you’ve heard the name Diana Phalon. In her senior year of high school, the Smethport...
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May 01, 2017
ORCHARD PARK — That didn’t take long. Barely 16 hours after Bills coach Sean McDermott assessed that general manager Doug Whaley had done “a phenomena...
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Apr 30, 2017
ST. BONAVENTURE — For one glorious yet painfully brief three-day stretch, Ethan Kibbe was himself again. Kibbe is a distance runner on the St. Bonaven...
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Apr 20, 2017
Every season, when The Times Herald selects its scholastic Big 30 All-Star teams, the decision remains just as difficult. Some players easily stand ou...
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Apr 18, 2017
FRANKLIN, Ind. — It’s was 10 short years ago when the Olean High School boys track team boasted one of the best one-two threats in the jumping events ...
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Apr 09, 2017
Barb Close and Jeff Haskell didn’t set out to earn any postseason honors when the 2016-17 high school basketball season began. All they wanted to do w...
Buffalo Bills, Football, Sports
Apr 05, 2017
ORCHARD PARK (AP) — On his fifth coach and after 11 years of missing the playoffs, Bills defensive tackle Kyle Williams acknowledged he might have nee...
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Mar 31, 2017
(Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series looking ahead to next year’s St. Bonaventure men’s basketball season. Today’s story centers ...
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Mar 27, 2017
The National Football League Draft starts in a month – 31 days if you’re counting – and already you sense a seismic shift in the approach to the upcom...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Mar 27, 2017
The National Football League Draft starts in a month – 31 days if you’re counting – and already you sense a seismic shift in the approach to the upcom...
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November 4, 2025
Mobilizations to collect food items — as well as cash donations — for food pantries to benefit households cut off from federal nutrition benefits cont...
Local Sports, Sports, Volleyball
November 4, 2025
OLEAN — Wednesday and Thursday are packed with local high schools competing in sectional finals, demonstrating a very successful season for teams in t...
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November 4, 2025
ALLEGANY — Finding others who understand your grief can make all the difference. HomeCare & Hospice invites community members to take part in its free...
Football, Local Sports, Sports
November 4, 2025
ORCHARD PARK — There was a flip to Keon Coleman for a first down. Jackson Hawes caught one for 18 yards later in the game. On a day he went 23 of 26 a...
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November 4, 2025
OLEAN — Christina Torrey, a Bolivar mother of three, received life-changing news last July: she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “I kind of told a co...
Local News, News
November 4, 2025
Olean Police Monday, 10:30 a.m. , no injuries were reported following a two-vehicle accident on North Union Street near Laurens Street. A vehicle oper...
