News
Jan 13, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 27, 2021
Washington, D.C., is now the epicenter of the pandemic. As of Dec. 23, it had 158 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, a 541% growth in cases over th...
Letters To Editor, Opinion
Dec 04, 2021
A false dichotomy foisted upon us insists that one can be either pro-safety or pro-freedom, but not both. It is this lie that has been used to divide ...
News, NY State News
Oct 13, 2021
NEW YORK (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul has no plans to drop her opposition to a religious exemption to New York’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health work...
News
Oct 08, 2021
ALBANY — Home health aides who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccination are barred from working in New York as of Friday under a new state mandate that on...
News, NY State News
Sep 30, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — Thousands of nurses and other medical personnel who work in state agencies that care for inmates or disabled and mentally ill individua...
News
Sep 26, 2021
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is prepared to call in medically trained National Guard members, retirees and workers outside New York to address potential...
News, NY State News
Sep 22, 2021
SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York officials say an effort to force the state to allow religious exemptions to a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health care worke...
News, NY State News
Sep 18, 2021
OLEAN — Protests against New York state’s vaccine mandates continued Friday with several dozen people from across the region gathered at Lincoln Park ...
News
Sep 14, 2021
UTICA (AP) — A federal judge temporarily blocked the state of New York on Tuesday from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of healt...
News, NY State News, Western New York
Sep 14, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — A majority of registered Democratic and Republican voters in New York support public schools requiring all teachers and staff to be vac...
Sep 09, 2021
HARRISBURG — An apparent loophole in Pennsylvania’s mask mandate for schools is making it easier for some students to go to class without having to co...
News
Sep 08, 2021
ALBANY (AP) — New York has delayed its requirement that state employees get vaccinated against the coronavirus or undergo weekly tests by more than a ...
News, NY State News
Aug 18, 2021
NEW YORK (TNS) — Public schools in New York state may yet see a mask-wearing mandate for the start of the academic year, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul hinted ...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 17, 2021
The worst part of the debate over school mask mandates is how uncharitable it has become. For example, at the Fort Worth, Texas, school board meeting ...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 04, 2021
There’s a handy device for determining status in American society — whether someone feels obligated to abide by his or her own COVID rules or not. The...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 22, 2021
In much of America, vaccine hesitancy has turned into vaccine defiance. Several states have banned or are considering banning demands by businesses th...
News, NY State News, Western New York
May 25, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — New York is walking back a mask mandate for kids at summer camps and daycares following outrage from parents and local officials. The s...
Local News, News
June 14, 2025
OLEAN — The first protest Nevin Oliphant took part in was in 1967 in Los Angeles. He was a young teenager protesting the Vietnam War. In 2025 his caus...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Cathy Briggs, memorial service OLEAN — A memorial service for Cathy Briggs will be held Thursday (June 19, 2025) at Guenther Funeral Home, 1303 E. Sta...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
William S. Clemens ALLEGANY — William S. “Bill” Clemens, 74, of Allegany, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, surround...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
John R. Cornwall, loving husband, father and brother FREEDOM — John R. Cornwall, 75, of Freedom, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at his home, su...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Dennis L. Holliday, loving husband, father and grandfather LIMESTONE — Dennis L. Holliday, of Nichols Run Road, passed away Tuesday (June 10, 2025). D...
