editorial

Taking a look at the headlines from the past week, the Olean Times Herald is passing out the “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” on selected stories. We hope...

During the holiday season the staff at Olean General Hospital knew it was especially difficult for patients to be in hospital. The kids, especially, w...

Today marks the one-year anniversary of passage of the New York SAFE Act, gun-control legislation that was hastily passed at the behest of Gov. Andrew...

I’m aware that the conservative, reactionary element are proficient at twisting the truth, but in a recent editorial embarrassment, pundit Jay Ambrose...

The governor delivered his 2014 State of the State address on Wednesday, one where he spent substantial time noting accomplishments of the past. What ...

I write this letter concerning Dr. Zia Sheikh because I have known him since he came to Salamanca with the hospital. During those years I have found h...

Our local snowmobile trails are kept open, first, because landowners give permission for trails to go through their property. This allows the connecti...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna of New York announced Friday the expansion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Do you know an angel lives among you in Olean? Let me tell you a story of this angel, named Art. On Monday morning, a young man, Michael Soprano of Sa...

As we start a new year, we thank everyone who helped us make many positive changes in 2013. If you’ve volunteered, adopted, donated or supported the S...

A Kansas City Star editorial included on this paper’s Commentary page (“Sad Song of Benghazi,” Jan. 4, 2014) summarizes the findings of a recent New Y...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $2.2 billion tax cut plan, which he detailed Monday, can only be welcome news to a state that stands as a punchline in wry jokes a...

I saw something on Facebook the other day — a list of things to make you a better friend or a nicer person. One jumped out at me in my time of grievin...

Readers of the Olean Times Herald’s Commentary page may have noticed some new bylines, as well as a new source for syndicated material, in the past fe...

Since I sometimes miss my Olean Times Herald, the article “Olean School Solar Project Rising Again” (in the Dec. 21 issue) was the first I heard of th...

Stop being unhappy with yourself. You are perfect. Stop wishing you looked like someone else or wishing people liked you as much as they like someone ...

On behalf of the Genesis House Luminaria Committee, I thank everyone who participated in this year’s fifth annual Luminaria Night, including the Genes...

A wedding ring. Memories. The two go together. If one is lost it doesn’t seem right to have one without the other. My mom lost her wedding ring about ...