editorial

This letter is in reply to Phyllis Manaher’s concern that school-sponsored trap shooting would be bad because some students might have an unhealthy ob...

In response to the letter to the editor condemning the possible Cuba-Rushford trap shooting club, I would like to offer an opinion from the side of a ...

The struggles in the South with an unusual winter storm this past week, particularly the Atlanta region, is perhaps cause for residents of the Olean a...

The family of SSG Shawn Clemens, who was killed in action in Afghanistan Jan. 29, 2004, thanks all those who helped with the recent memorial benefit t...

Glenn Beck, a former cornerstone of Fox News, made a return to the conservative media giant’s soundstage for an interview with Megyn Kelly last week. ...

I am truly disappointed in the Olean Times Herald’s lack of coverage of an important community event. The dismal coverage of the Dr. Martin Luther Kin...

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Surgeon General’s first report on health hazards of cigarette smoking, the office released a repor...

People who care, vote. People who care more, vote more. Me? I vote early and often, as the joke goes. I’ve always been a political news junkie since o...

Ray Donnelly, his wife, Teresa, and their family have been an important part of my life for a very long time. Unable to return home to honor Ray and l...

I read with dismay the article in the Olean Times Herald that Cuba-Rushford Central School District is considering sanctioning an after-school trap sh...

That co-worker who often falls back on the small-talk staple of “Cold ’nuff for ya?” can perhaps get a pass from the cliché police this week. Because ...

As I remember it, Barry Goldwater once described Hubert Humphrey as “Hubert Horatio Wind, who speaks at the rate of (several hundred) words per minute...

It is somewhat surprising that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, usually so measured and calculating in everything he does, would allow himself to become enmeshed in...

Budget time on any government level can be a lot like putting together a Christmas wish list — some things one will get, some things might not be unde...

Last week, the acting surgeon general of the United States released his report on tobacco use in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of former SG Lu...

In 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the pill for contraceptive use, effectively disconnecting sex from its biological purpose. Wit...

O ne of my earliest memories of misery was fighting a bad case of influenza as a child. As my siblings were also sick, my grandmother came to our aid ...

There’s this photograph. It hangs in a small corner on the west wall at the State King. Couldn’t even venture a guess how long it’s been there. It’s o...