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Summer days for young teenage girls are spent in a lot of ways — playing softball or soccer, going to the beach, shopping, or just hanging out with fr...

St. Bonaventure University president Sister Margaret Carney, O.S.F., in a story printed Thursday in this paper, said that student enrollment at the sc...

University of Pittsburgh at Bradford pitching product Aaron Cressley has gotten his professional career off to a good start. The Corry, Pa., native, d...

EMPORIUM — Football is unlike any other scholastic sport, when it comes to the relationship between a coach and his players. The Joe Sanfilippos, Geor...

An update on Allegany-Limestone’s Ashley Petersen and a Bona basketball-related item while enjoying a week off from the Olean Times Herald office: A l...

So, you think you know all there is to know about umpiring. Bet you don’t know as much as this trio does. The Cattaraugus County Baseball Umpires Asso...

It struck me as so very sad ... yet so profoundly fitting. Two weeks ago, while vacationing in Maine, my check of the obituaries on the TH website rev...

OLEAN — The Olean Oilers were desperately looking to get back into the win column. After opening the 2014 New York Collegiate Baseball League with an ...

After coaching the volleyball team, the girls’ basketball team, and the school’s tennis team this past high school year, you would think Frank Martin ...

This had all the makings of a special season well before the first snap had even been taken. It came as no surprise, then, when the 1946 St. Bonaventu...

It might very well have come off as simply the footnote to the story. The Atlantic 10 officially announcing last month that it would go from a 16- to ...

The last time Cattaraugus-Little Valley reached the Section 6 championship round for softball was … well, never. Since the former Cattaraugus and Litt...

OLEAN — Western New York’s top high school runners, jumpers and throwers — from Niagara Falls to Clymer to Albion to Portville and everywhere in betwe...

OLEAN — At the very beginning, it was all a bit overwhelming. Bobby Bell spent those precious few months between knowing that Olean would have a team ...

There’s a saying in our business — print or broadcast — that negative feedback tends to outnumber positive by some six- or seven-to-one. In a column l...

They had two very different NBA seasons, these two former holders of the No. 44 jersey at St. Bonaventure, these two all-time Bona greats. For David V...

After returning to compete in the Boston Marathon this year, Allegany’s Tammy Putt went for a different run this past Sunday — a half-marathon in Clev...

ORCHARD PARK — There’s a chance, other than the seven draft choices, that none of them will make the Bills’ roster. But this past weekend, the other 2...