Breaking News
September 27, 2025
SALAMANCA — A Salamanca man was being held for the murder of another person in the city, Salamanca police reported Saturday. Andrew C. Skye, 35, of 31...
Editorial
Apr 17, 2012
Internet friendships, stranger danger is real. As any normal 27-year-old woman would do, I am trying to learn Turkish. I’m making real strides. I can ...
Editorial
Apr 17, 2012
As a parent of two elementary students in the Olean City School District, I would like to express my deep regret and frustration with the district’s a...
Editorial
Apr 12, 2012
Young children in Allegany County deserve the best that we can give them. April 22-28 is the Week of the Young Child. During the entire month of April...
Editorial
Apr 11, 2012
In the 1980s, the unregulated, venture-capitalist leaches made their fortunes by executing hostile takeovers of American businesses. They would overbo...
Editorial
Apr 11, 2012
Regarding Olean City School District and duplicitous statements: It is very clear from the second of these two statements that the plan was always to ...
Editorial
Apr 10, 2012
This week, schools, campuses and communities across the country are celebrating National Library Week, a time to remind the pubic about the contributi...
Editorial
Apr 10, 2012
“Wow” is what my dear friend, Sheila, and I kept saying during the recent production of “Hello Dolly” at Olean High School. I can say, without a doubt...
Editorial
Apr 10, 2012
If there were a Pulitzer Prize for foolishness, then Betsy Hart’s column in Sunday’s Olean Times Herald would be the 2012 winner — and it’s only April...
Editorial
Apr 06, 2012
On April 2, the Olean Times Herald published a column by Jay Ambrose, in which he writes, in reference to The Patient Protection and Affordable Care A...
Editorial
Apr 04, 2012
The Chinese are doing it again. Since China joined the World Trade Organization, the United States’ employment in the auto parts sector has dropped by...
Editorial
Apr 04, 2012
Kathy Boser ( “Allegany Wind Supporters Short-Sighted,” March 18 edition of the Olean Times Herald) seems to be afraid that if they build them (windmi...
Editorial
Apr 04, 2012
Children. What a blessing, am I right? I don’t have any kids of my own, but I have had the distinct pleasure of substitute teaching many of the fine m...
Editorial, Sports
Apr 03, 2012
Here’s why our readers are so special. They’re the ones who, so often, call my attention to something we might never have known otherwise. And so it w...
Editorial
Apr 03, 2012
To the movie industry, I say kudos and congratulations. Just when I thought they couldn’t descend much lower on the scale of depravity and immorality,...
Editorial
Apr 03, 2012
Binding legal contracts with Native Americans, which the state has agreed to, must be respected and upheld. New York state believes it alone has the r...
Editorial, Sports
Mar 30, 2012
Do you think Rebecca Lobo laughed at Maryland on Tuesday night? You know, the Maryland that lost by 31 points to Notre Dame in the NCAA’s Elite Eight ...
Editorial
Mar 30, 2012
Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio says he welcomes the repeal of CoBIS, the Combined Ballistic Identification System, in one of this year’s state budget bi...
Editorial
Mar 29, 2012
Years ago, Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles had the nickname “Puff.” He would enter the clubhouse, get two factions angry with each other ... then,...
Commentary, Opinion
October 1, 2025
Nine years ago, progressives wanted James Comey strung up in the public square. Today, he’s their cause celebre. How times change. In 2016, Democrats ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
October 1, 2025
SALAMANCA — Beautiful weather, live music, activities for the whole family and several new features are hoping to bring people pouring into the city t...
Business, Local News, News
October 1, 2025
Average gasoline prices in New York have fallen 2.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.17/g, while the price per gallon in Olean-area out...
Local Sports, Sports
September 30, 2025
OLEAN — Olean’s Kinley Belleisle and May Eaton claimed the top two spots in a four-team girls’ cross country race Tuesday, but a deep Franklinville/El...
Local Sports, Soccer, Sports
September 30, 2025
PORTVILLE — After a scoreless first half, Portville’s Vic Vena, Colin German and Garrett Reynolds all scored in the second half for a boys soccer vict...
