editorial

ST. BONAVENTURE — The words have been uttered nearly every year since the new coaching regime took the reins over fours years ago. And this time, it's...

Numerous times I have heard the Concerned Citizens of Cattaraugus County voice “environmental concerns” in their opposition to the EverPower wind farm...

A few items that have built up on the desk of late... Any fledgling distance runner would be happy with a race debut that resulted in a first-place fi...

ORCHARD PARK — All week long the Bills’ players and coaches low-balled it. Talk about New England’s 15-game win streak against Buffalo was fodder for ...

Just a few notes while enjoying the euphoria surrounding the Bills before reality soon sets in this Sunday against the Patriots: ♦ Marion Pockalny rec...

It’s back: House Bill 4646, which includes a 1 percent user fee on all transactions at banking institutions and credit cards. Part of the Obama admini...

ORCHARD PARK — It became a ritual for the decade of the ‘70s ... recounting the futility of the Bills against the Dolphins. From 1970-79, Buffalo lost...

Well, here we go again. Our taxes are being used in this area for the promotion of politics, which most of us oppose. It’s wrong. We read in the Olean...

As a long-time horsewoman and trail rider, I will agree that what Charles Jackson of Franklinville wrote in a letter to the editor in Tuesday’s Olean ...

The Olean Kennel Club, an affiliated club of the American Kennel Club — the nation’s largest registry and leading not-for-profit organization dedicate...

In less than a week, Brian O’Connell Jr. will present a check for $10,000 to the Olean Local Development Corporation for purchase of a franchise in th...

“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night ... will stay us from the swift completion of our appointed rounds.” For more than 235 years, th...

On Friday, the bridge over the railroad tracks at Sherlock Hollow in Hinsdale was shut down. Are you aware of this? That’s the right turn off Route 16...

I don’t understand why, after a USA Today/Gallup poll, taken in May, showed that 59 percent believe that the United States has accomplished its missio...

The news came via email from my aunt last week — a fire had completely destroyed the church in Olean, N.Y., the town where she lives. My mom was marri...

I read with interest David Pullen’s article in the Sept. 14 Cuba Patriot, titled, “Remembering.” He was, of course, referring to remembering 9/11. In ...

As a long-time horseman and trail rider I was both saddened and apalled by the damage to the athletic field at Stayer Park in Allegany. This was, at t...

ORCHARD PARK — This is a game the Bills could only have won at home. But Sunday afternoon at “The Ralph” hardly seemed a candidate for such heroics. T...