contemporary history

WELLSVILLE — Tuesdays With Grace at Grace United Church, a week early this month, will feature Dr. Gary Ostrower, Professor Emeritus of History at Alf...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES named its Career and Technical Education High Honor and Honor rolls for the third quarter from CTE Center i...

When Richard Lee “Dick” Ferris was 17 years old, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Two weeks later, the Cuba teenager joined the Nav...

The tip came from the enemy. So, of course, the president found it suspicious — and provocative. He was, after all, ex-KGB. But what came next would h...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES named its Career and Technical Education High Honor and Honor rolls for the second quarter from CTE Center ...

On its side, on the ocean floor in the Outer Banks, rests a former U.S. Navy landing craft. It’s a military vessel Eldred, Pa., native Joel Gilfert wa...

YORKSHIRE — Pioneer PRO, the student service group at Pioneer High School, has once again received financial help from local veterans’ groups in the m...

Henry Kissinger, the great American statesman who has died at age 100, stands accused by his critics of many things, but perhaps the most outlandish i...

The figure of Napoleon has long been an object of fascination, but the new Ridley Scott biopic makes one wonder why. The film, perhaps inadvertently, ...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES recently announced its Career and Technical Education High Honor and Honor rolls for the first quarter from...

About 15 years ago, Albert D. Cecchi, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War II, spoke to his grandson's class at school about his experiences. Cecc...

Editor's note: Jim Smith of Columbia, South Carolina, son of World War II hero and Olean native Paul Bridges Smith, submitted this narrative on the el...

YORKSHIRE — The Pioneer football team wrapped up its regular season with another dominant win on Thursday, running away from Springville in a non-leag...

ALBANY (TNS) — As Hamas terrorists were slaughtering, kidnapping and mutilating Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, Albany Law School professor Nina Farnia t...

ELDRED, Pa. — This will be Living History Weekend at the Eldred World War II Museum. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, meet and visit with W...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately ...

The nostalgia cycle ushering in a slew of remakes, reboots and legacy sequels of popular movies and TV shows from the 1980s is mostly done as ’90s nos...

YORKSHIRE — Students graduating from the BOCES Career and Technical Education Center at Ellicottville held their commencement ceremony at Pioneer High...