editorial

I am writing this letter in hopes that the Cattaraugus County Legislature does the right thing by giving the SPCA in Cattaraugus County $20,000. When ...

So much controversy over one sentence — one person’s opinion of the deplorable state of our country. Well, I agree with Nate Smith, and most certainly...

Perhaps my earliest clear memory in life are images on a black and white TV of the Apollo 11 moon landing in the summer of 1969, fulfilling a goal set...

With regard to the recent controversy over the sign that attempted to draw parallels between contemporary America and Germany in the 1930s, I wish to ...

What a frightening realization for the couple pictured on page one of the Nov. 3 edition of the Olean Times Herald and the accompanying headline, “Fac...

At a time when companies like Dal-Tile and Cooper Power Systems are closing their plants or cutting operations in small towns like Olean and moving jo...

Good for you, Nate Smith. You have managed to get people thinking, talking and discussing. Where, oh where, but in America? Audrey and Bob Childs Hins...

There is an expression “canary in a coal mine.” Technically, the canary was a bird that the miners took into the mine to detect the odorless and color...

We need to wake up and face the fact that we have been duped. The right of every American to choose his or her own health care has been handed to the ...

With all the claims that the Obama administration is emulating the gradual rise to power of the Nazi regime, what we haven’t seen are actual compariso...

In response to Rychelle Weseman’s letter of Nov. 6: “1930s Germany Reference is Offensive,” I would like to point out some facts to consider. In the e...

Greg Todd of Portville was searching for a way to honor his wife Beth’s memory in a way that would help others. He had lost her to breast cancer in Ma...

How ironic that Nate Smith’s letter defending his comparison of the Obama administration to Germany in the 1930s appeared just two days before the 75t...

The vitriolic letter to the editor in Wednesday’s Olean Times Herald regarding Nate Smith and his sign was, I believe, contrived outrage based upon a ...

Summer nights during my childhood years entailed staying up late some evenings and watching movies on television. It was also the pre-cable era, which...

I must protest Rychelle Weseman’s letter to the editor in which she disparages the Smith family because of a sign at Cindy’s Emporium on Olean’s East ...

Once again, the Olean Times Herald has demonstrated its lack of objectivity regarding the Allegany wind farm project. In Thursday’s edition, an articl...

In regard to the scolding of Nate Smith over his painfully obvious views of the state of our government — or lack thereof — I find it refreshing that ...