Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 11, 2022
When the going gets tough, the clever go fishing. Few pastimes connect a person to the natural world like standing in a free-flowing stream casting fo...
Outdoors
Jul 03, 2021
Choosing the correct lure style and color can be critical, either making or breaking your day. To address this lure manufacturers make a seemingly end...
Outdoors
Mar 06, 2021
Any good fisherman is keenly aware of the importance of using the right bait at the correct time. If you’ve been fishing for years, your tackle collec...
NY State News, Outdoors
Feb 25, 2021
MANCHESTER, Vt. (TNS) — Before long, fly fishermen and women will descend on theBattenkill River, which starts near here in theGreen Mountainsand conn...
Outdoors
Feb 20, 2021
Groaning and straining under an armful of wood, I just managed to hook a finder round the door handle and stagger inside. Depositing the wood by the s...
News, Olean
Aug 06, 2020
RED HOUSE — A blue-green algae bloom around the Red House Lake shoreline has temporarily closed Red House Beach in Allegany State Park. The bloom, bel...
Outdoors, Sports
May 30, 2020
This has been an unusual spring. Being in the woods every day for the last six weeks scouting and hunting gobblers, I gradually became aware of subtle...
Outdoors, Sports
Apr 11, 2020
I have spent all my life trying to become a better trout fisherman. This has become a perpetual quest, I guess, a study and a pursuit I dearly love, o...
Outdoors
Apr 04, 2020
How times change — and so quickly. Who would have thought the entire country would be forced to confront a deadly disease and essentially shut down to...
Outdoors
Feb 22, 2020
When I went to school, and for years after, I’d have a reoccurring dream in which I’d go to class and discover, to my horror, an important paper hadn’...
Outdoors
Feb 05, 2020
OLEAN — The Jim Stearns Memorial Rabbit Hunt, held in honor of a longtime member of the Enchanted Mountain Beagle Club, is set for Saturday at the clu...
Outdoors
Aug 07, 2019
I was contemplating when to go fishing. Let’s see, Thursday was out, but the next four days were open. Which day would provide the best chance of succ...
Local News, News
Jul 15, 2019
From cracking down on reckless drivers in Olean to unsafe boaters on Cuba Lake, from fruits of Olean’s labor heading to the moon to promoting green en...
Outdoors
Apr 12, 2019
I am a very fortunate guy. Many my age, born back in the Stone Age before computers, high gas prices and, gasp, the cell phone, find their interest in...
News, Outdoors
Apr 02, 2019
Trout fishermen tried their luck Monday on streams, ponds and lakes throughout New York state for the traditional April 1 trout opener. As is so often...
Outdoors
Mar 25, 2019
Everyone anxiously looks forward to spring, tired of winter’s short, cold days, long nights, snow and the general discomfort of leaving your nice, war...
Outdoors
Mar 19, 2019
The morning sun beamed down from a pure blue sky unmarred by the shadow of a single cloud. The golden light shined with gentle benevolence on streams,...
Outdoors
Feb 17, 2019
A few weeks downstream from his 90th birthday, Joe Humphreys still dreams of future trout, the muscled browns he lost during the fight, and those rare...
Baseball, Local Sports, Sports
NYCBL PLAYOFFS
Olean’s season ends with a 7-6 loss to Gliders
July 25, 2025
DANSVILLE — For the Olean Oilers, this was undoubtedly another quality season. Olean, in its 12th campaign as a New York Collegiate Baseball League fr...
Local Sports, Soccer, Sports
July 25, 2025
Sunday afternoon and evening, the soccer field at Pitt-Bradford’s Kessel Athletic Complex will be a showcase of both male and female talent at the hig...
Football, Local Sports, Sports
July 25, 2025
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the seventh story in a series of previewing Buffalo Bills position groups ahead of the preseason. Tre’Davious White has an oppo...
Cattaraugus County, High School, Local News, ...
July 25, 2025
SALAMANCA — Three Salamanca High School graduates were recently awarded scholarship funds through the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation. Jacob H...
Local News, News
July 25, 2025
Twelve recent area graduates recently receive the Gregory D. Spring Perseverance Scholarship, an annual scholarship managed by the Cattaraugus Region ...
Local News, News
July 25, 2025
OLEAN — Nine area students have received healthcare scholarships stewarded by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation. Adelaide Weber of Ellicottv...
