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The United Faiths community was instituted in Olean after 9/11 by the Presbyterian minister Gary Larson. He told me he felt it was necessary to show s...

(TNS) Voters’ disgust with the current political setup is firing Donald Trump’s presidential bid. Yet Trump has latched himself onto the epitome of po...

The Jamestown Community College Olean campus and the Cattaraugus County Counselor’s Association express appreciation to all who helped make this year’...

There are three public housing complexes in the city of Olean and all of them allow the occupants to smoke indoors. For some of those occupants, smoki...

Citizens Advocating Memorial Preservation (C.A.M.P.) publicly thanks the Cattaraugus County legislators who, on Dec. 9 at their year-end meeting, vote...

THUMBS UP: The city of Olean was facing a more than $2 million funding shortfall on its estimated $23.25 million upgrade to the wastewater treatment p...

On behalf of the Genesis House Luminaria Committee, I would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s project, including the Genesis Hous...

Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb says Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest task force on Common Core standards told the state something it already knew: I...

I am an elderly Social Security recipient and John Cappelletti’s letter to the editor, “More of That Free Stuff,” in the Dec. 6 edition of the Olean T...

New York state has again earned high marks for its strong gun laws, according to a new state-by-state analysis by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violen...

Reflecting St. Bonaventure University’s mission and values, SBU’s Center for Arab and Islamic Studies upholds the God-given worth of every individual....

Periodically one of those little sayings will pop up on my Facebook site. It will read: “Light a candle for someone you’re missing in Heaven.” The pos...

(TNS) Like a tornado or a typhoon, the political tsunami that is Donald Trump is a complex coalescence of current and historical forces whose unforese...

This holiday season, let's remember the entire Christmas story. It only begins in a manger in Bethlehem. "Jesus himself was a refugee," notes Matthew ...

Dr. Naheed Hilal didn’t want to go there. Regarding Donald Trump, that is, and his proposal laden with ignorance and bigotry for the banning of all Mu...

We baby boomers tend to think that we have to do things differently than those who came before us. In an attempt to hold off the aging process, many f...

(TNS) The day of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., my son’s high school was placed on a short lockdown. He was remarkably nonchalant when I...

(TNS) Russia is an active player and a necessary participant in any potential Syrian cease-fire and solution. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has w...