News
Dec 19, 2022
From letters to Santa to saving a life with radio, from moving on a new secondary school to expanding the post office, here’s a look back on the week ...
News
Sep 15, 2022
There goes Tom Capra again, jumping out of an airplane. This time at age 92. The Allegany resident’s son, Jeff Capra, tells us that he drove his dad u...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News
Mar 26, 2022
To lime or not to lime, now that is the question. The practice of adding lime to the hayfields probably slipped over to doing the same to our veggie g...
Cattaraugus County, News
Dec 30, 2021
It wasn’t in the meadow ... Charlie Sakowski and his mom, dad and sister built a snowman in grandma’s front yard on Main Street in Olean. Charlie, gra...
Columnists, Outdoors, Sports
Nov 05, 2021
The sky darkened, light fled and an impending feeling of gloom enveloped the landscape. Across the valley swaths of rain fell, the slanting sheets obs...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 23, 2021
He may not be onetime Master of the Senate Lyndon Johnson, but, having spent 36 years in the upper house and eight years in the vice presidency, Joe B...
Local Columnists, News
Jun 19, 2021
I was fishing one of my favorite trout streams on a recent evening, making my way down to a particularly favored spot — when I stopped short. Wouldn’t...
Outdoors
Jan 04, 2020
It’s now 2020. Doesn’t seem possible so much time has passed in my life. When I think back on all the marvelous and wonderful experiences hunting, fis...
Commentary, Local Columnists
Sep 21, 2019
Something is growing alongside my garage. It is a cross between Timothy grass that farmers grow and a wild grass you might find in a swamp or natural ...
Allegany County News, Local News, News
Mar 19, 2019
After reading the Olean Times Herald’s three-part series on the Coliseum in Ceres, Joe Collins Jr. of Scio related how the roller skating rink was res...
Commentary, Local Columnists
Feb 09, 2019
Super Bowl Sunday means super entertainment to most people, but years ago the famous day of national competition turned out to be my Dad’s last earthl...
Outdoors
Nov 22, 2018
Like many kids growing up in northern Pennsylvania in the 1960s, I had close relatives who worked in the oil fields, spending long hours in the woods ...
Lifestyle
Oct 09, 2018
The first time I met Keagan Hernandez he impressed the heck out of me. The Granger Middle School sixth-grader wanted to meet in late August to talk ab...
Lifestyle
Aug 29, 2018
(TNS) Standing on spindly stalk-like legs, she’s still sticking close to mom for now. North Carolina’s herd of wild Colonial Spanish mustangs roaming ...
Outdoors
Aug 21, 2018
My grandfather and I were sitting comfortably at camp on a bitterly cold January day. We were spending the weekend together, just the two of us. Pop, ...
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jul 09, 2018
I was never much of a coffee drinker until my early 20s. Work had something to do with that — when I joined the staff at The Bradford Era I had to tra...
Allegany County News, Local News, News
Feb 07, 2018
BELFAST — How would you spend a million dollars? It’s a question Angelica natives Kirk and Brooke Spangler are amazed to ask themselves after winning ...
News
Feb 07, 2018
BELFAST — How would you spend a million dollars? It’s a question Angelica natives Kirk and Brooke Spangler are amazed to ask themselves after winning ...
Articles
June 4, 2025
Many local players will be chosen for the Big 30 Football Senior Classic on August 2. Here are six of those players that have already been chosen. Bre...
Articles, Baseball, High School, ...
June 4, 2025
The Olean Oilers are back on the practice field as they prepare for their first game of the season against the Salamanca Lizards at 7:30 p.m. on Frida...
Cattaraugus County, News
June 4, 2025
SALAMANCA — A fully involved fire at an empty Lincoln Avenue house Monday was contained by firefighters and later demolished, but remained under inves...
Local News, News
June 4, 2025
OLEAN -- Runners, joggers and walkers are invited to hit the trail later this month for an evening of fun, wellness and community spirit. The 15th ann...
Local News, News
June 4, 2025
PORTVILLE — The Music in the Park series marks 21 years this season, which opens on Wednesday. The concerts, held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Wednesd...
Schools
June 4, 2025
CATTARAUGUS — Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School announces the top 10 students of the Class of 2025, including the valedictorian and salutatoria...
