Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 09, 2022
Don’t you just love those viral videos of teachers being awesome? Like the one of Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Ms. Fitz — swishing a long jumper , which led...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 02, 2022
Joe Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the pandemic. This is not entirely his fault, obviously. ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 12, 2022
The old legal maxim is that everything which is not forbidden is permitted. Many public-health experts apparently have their own version of this rule ...
Allegany County News, News
Jan 10, 2022
BELMONT — Masks and COVID-19 at-home test kits will be going out to libraries and town halls across Allegany County as the county reported the highest...
News
Dec 08, 2021
OLEAN — Faculty and staff in the Olean City School District will begin weekly testing for COVID-19 today but those who are fully vaccinated have the o...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 07, 2021
Two weeks ago, I attended the funeral of a dear lady who had befriended me when I first arrived in Fort Worth eight years ago. She was nearly 81 when ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 02, 2021
There’s a new COVID variant and the world is freaking out. Omicron was first found in South Africa, prompting President Biden to restrict travel from ...
Dec 02, 2021
There’s a new COVID variant and the world is freaking out. Omicron was first found in South Africa, prompting President Biden to restrict travel from ...
Cattaraugus County, News
Oct 15, 2021
OLEAN — Visitation to Olean General Hospital and Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center has been suspended again because of increasing cases of COVID-...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News
Sep 25, 2021
OLEAN — The 28 new COVID-19 cases reported by the Cattaraugus County Health Department Friday were about half the number reported on Thursday, while A...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 24, 2021
Americans are currently experiencing one of the most peculiar public episodes of my lifetime. Amid a deadly worldwide disease epidemic, many people ar...
News
Sep 23, 2021
WELLSVILLE — Allegany County’s largest hospital is asking residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as case counts rise and more than a third of in...
News
Sep 04, 2021
FRANKLINVILLE — One week after her 55th birthday, Angela Schadt found herself at Olean General Hospital with a terrible cough, shortness of breath and...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News
Sep 04, 2021
OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Health Department reported 36 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, while Allegany County also reports high numbers of new infe...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 31, 2021
You don’t have to be a scientist to muster convincing arguments in favor of commonsense measures for combating COVID-19. COVID spreads through the air...
Cattaraugus County, News
Aug 24, 2021
Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General Hospital will host COVID memorial services at 6:30 p.m. today. The programs will honor those lost t...
Health
Aug 23, 2021
COVID! COVID! COVID! Vaccination! Vaccination! Vaccination! In 2020 and 2021 those have been words used a crazy amount of times and for good reason. B...
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Aug 20, 2021
Shifting away from his Afghan debacle, President Biden went back Wednesday to that other war, COVID, with a two-prong attack on the enemy: Vaccines an...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
Ruth M. Baillargeon, mother, grandmother, sister BELFAST --- Ruth M. Baillargeon, 82, of Belfast, New York, passed away Monday, June 16, 2025 at High...
June 16, 2025
Robert E. Stephens PORTVILLE === Robert E. Stephens of 24 Finch Street, passed away on Friday, June 13, 2025 at the Cuba Memorial Skilled Nursing Faci...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I talk about what’s happening in Albany — but the failures keep repeating. This year was no different. Whil...
