Outdoors
May 13, 2022
If you are unfortunate enough to have been bitten by the spring gobbler bug, the infection has more than likely spread deep and is incurable. Having s...
Outdoors
Apr 29, 2022
Man, can you believe spring gobbler is upon us once again? It seems to take forever for trout season to finally roll around and break winter’s deadloc...
Outdoors
May 15, 2021
It’s spring gobbler season once again. Good grief. It’s a fact few spring turkey hunters make it through the entire season without missing many mornin...
Outdoors
May 08, 2021
Perhaps the most entertaining aspects of spring gobbler season involve the neverending series of mistakes my friends and I make every spring. This yea...
Outdoors
Apr 24, 2021
You’d fallen exhausted into bed the night before. After getting up at 4 a.m., experiencing another fruitless hunt, then working all day, you came home...
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
May 23, 2020
Turkey hunting is a time-consuming and often difficult sport. This year has been especially frustrating since birds I know are in the general vicinity...
Outdoors
Aug 12, 2019
I’ve noticed that the further from the farm people are, the more unrealistic their viewpoints become. Farm life grounds one in the oftentimes harsh re...
Outdoors
Jun 07, 2019
A non-hunter happened to overhear a conversation I had with another spring gobbler hunter. I was ecstatic having finally bagged a beautiful bird the d...
Outdoors
May 30, 2019
As seems to happen so many times, the gobblers were extremely active up to and including the last week in April. Then, just as if they had the opening...
Outdoors
May 12, 2019
When Jim Acker of Smethport first traveled to Missouri hunting spring turkeys it was some 20 years ago. He’d been introduced to a farmer near Browning...
Outdoors
May 02, 2019
The clock has whirled rapidly around, the circle has completed itself and another spring is upon us. Another month of spring turkey lies ahead. I myse...
Outdoors
Apr 17, 2019
April on Chautauqua Lake. The ice was off and the crappies running. I hoped to get in on the action. Up at 5:30, the first streaks of daylight smeared...
Outdoors
Jun 05, 2018
When you’re creaky and squeak around the hinges you seldom enjoy a sound night’s sleep. Some tendon, joint or other tissue starts squawking and you to...
Outdoors
May 15, 2018
This has been a strange spring, colder than most, but especially cold in the states to the south. Snow, ice, frosts and rain have held back spring a m...
Outdoors
May 08, 2018
This gobbler had been unpredictable for two weeks. He gobbled one morning and not the next. Sometimes he answered my calls, sometimes he remained sile...
Outdoors
May 08, 2018
Show me a turkey hunter who killed a spring gobbler on his first hunt and never hunted turkeys again, and I’ll show you someone who thinks turkey hunt...
Outdoors
May 10, 2017
There is a drawer in my gun room I can almost shut. It’s filled to capacity with various types, makes and models of turkey calls. I couldn’t ever use ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
June 13, 2025
SALAMANCA — Goodwill of Western New York is planning an upcoming session of its Goodskills Career Builder training program in Salamanca. The training ...
June 13, 2025
Gregory Clare Bell ELDRED, Pa. -- Gregory Clare Bell, 76, of Eldred, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully at home on June 11, 2025, surrounded by his ...
Local News, News
June 13, 2025
CUBA — Town Supervisor Lee James said a nearly weeklong emergency order banning water vessels on Cuba Lake due to flood-related debris and pollutants ...
Local News, News
June 13, 2025
CUBA — Town Supervisor Lee James said a nearly weeklong emergency order banning water vessels on Cuba Lake due to flood-related debris and pollutants...
Obituaries
June 13, 2025
Colin L. 'Corky' Stillman CUBA — Colin L. “Corky” Stillman, 82, of Cuba, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at Olean General Hospital, after a brie...
News
June 13, 2025
FRIENDSHIP — United Church of Friendship, located at 31 E. Main St., will be putting on a free concert Friday, June 20, as the church will welcome Bro...
