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OLEAN — With demand nearly doubling in recent years, the Olean Food Pantry plans to raise $1 million to stock its shelves for the next decade and addr...

FRIENDSHIP — Early registrations are underway at Friendship for a regional Amish Awareness Conference next month which is designed to acquaint area re...

OLEAN — The YMCA of the Twin Tiers will kick off its 2024 Annual Campaign next week by rounding up local businesspeople and committing them to jail — ...

The U.S. immigration system is broken. Voices on all sides of this debate can agree on that, if not where to cast the blame. But our need for economic...

ALBANY — A New York taxpayer watchdog group is urging state lawmakers to approve Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to throttle back school spending through a “...

NEW YORK — Judge Juan M. Merchan looked across his high-ceilinged courtroom, facing the defendant in a complicated case. Not the one everyone knows ab...

Growing up in the 50s and 60s we were forced to be frugal. I remember having two pairs of pants for the school year, one brown and the other black. I ...

CUBA — Small piles of hair mounded up on the floor of the Cuba-Rushford Middle/High School auditorium stage Friday afternoon as four adults made the s...

OLEAN — Each year the Zonta Club of Olean recognizes women in the community for empowering other women. On March 8, International Women’s Day, each wo...

Most local sales taxing authorities saw lower receipts in February, the state’s financial watchdog reported Thursday. The Office of the State Comptrol...

OLEAN — The city’s bus service may make its last runs this spring. The city of Olean issued a proposal of cessation of services on Thursday for the Ol...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello said Thursday that New York Democratic lawmakers have taken a “head-in-the-sand approach” in building their new bu...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Some New York state lawmakers are calling for reforms after an audit found some of the various tax credits the state grants aren’t ne...

SALAMANCA — The Board of Education has had its first look at proposed figures for the instructional portion of the Salamanca City Central School Distr...

The popular platform for short-form videos, TikTok, changed the way young Americans view the world. With an estimated 170 million Americans using TikT...

The anonymous donor who established the Rebekah Love Family Scholarship at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation has announced a campaign to mat...

OLEAN — One of the city’s oldest businesses will close its doors this spring. Owners of John Ash Cleaners on West State Street indicated the business ...

There’s no debating the value of local volunteer firefighters and the services they provide their communities. Despite their importance, though, findi...