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ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University professors Dr. Benjamin Gross and Dr. Samantha Gavin have co-authored the book “Framing the Police on Twi...

OLEAN — Four recent area graduates received awards this year from the Burt Scholarship Fund, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation. A...

The American Psychological Association has issued its first advisory on social media use in adolescence. What’s most striking in its data-based recomm...

HOUGHTON — Houghton University will host Dr. Paolo Carozza, professor of law and political science at the University of Notre Dame, for the inaugural ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University will honor a man who is an institution on campus at the 163rd commencement exercises on May 14. Father Da...

ALBANY (TNS) — For another example of intolerance toward free expression, we don’t need to travel far. It occurred a few days ago on the University at...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Plassmann Hall at St. Bonaventure University has long been central to campus life, both academically and outside the classroom. Plas...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has named local students to its fall 2022 Dean’s list. Among those named to the Dean’s list w...

Not for a hundred years has there been such a pronounced drop in U.S. life expectancy, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 just two years later, in 2021, acco...

Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin told his fellow citizens that it had produced “a Republic, if you can keep it.” His answ...

DEWITT — Community Bank announced that Monticia Prather has been promoted to the new corporate-wide role of culture and diversity officer. Prather wil...

SALAMANCA — Nearly New Boutique has evolved into something more and keeps growing. Located at 197 Center St. in the Center Street Plaza, Native New ha...

NEW YORK — Just six months after he resigned from office in disgrace over sexual harassment allegations, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared to...

Earlier this month, I wrote about the controversies surrounding Dr. Seuss and the notion that the iconic author from western Massachusetts might be th...

”Cancel culture” has been debated and discussed ad nauseam, whether it exists or it doesn’t, which political party is more likely to engage in cancell...

As if having his music reduced to ringtones wasn’t insult enough, the great Ludwig van Beethoven himself has now become a political football in the ca...

In 2015, at a Harvard University luncheon held in her honor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked what advice she would give young women today. “Fight for th...

Editor’s Note: These commentaries are a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly with area residents, in hopes of cre...