Basketball, Big 30, High School, ...
Dec 19, 2018
BEMUS POINT — Big games from Mike Schmidt and Matt Droney sparked the Olean High boys basketball team’s 75-47 CCAA West I win over Maple Grove on Tues...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Oct 28, 2018
EDEN — Maple Grove coach Mike Burr compared it to a heavyweight fight: “both teams felt each other out” in the first half Saturday. Burr’s Red Dragons...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 20, 2018
BEMUS POINT — Salamanca and Maple Grove will meet on the football field for the third time this season next week in the Section 6, Class D playoffs. R...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 14, 2018
PANAMA — How quickly can a game get out of hand against Clymer/Sherman/Panama, the No. 1 team in Class D in New York State? For the Salamanca football...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 10, 2018
SALAMANCA — For Paul Haley, it was the metaphorical carrot at (or, in this case, near) the end of the tunnel. From the beginning, his Salamanca footba...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Sep 15, 2018
SALAMANCA — While not exactly identical to last week, the loss felt a little too familiar for the Salamanca varsity football team. In Week 2, the Warr...
Baseball, Big 30, High School, ...
May 25, 2018
ALLEGANY — Allegany-Limestone has returned to the same position its season ended in 2017. Just one victory away from an elusive Section 6, Class C bas...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Apr 22, 2018
OLEAN — Saturday marked the 27th edition of the Olean Sports Boosters/Ried’s Food Barn Invitational. While the long-awaited arrival of sunny, spring-l...
Basketball, Big 30, High School, ...
Feb 18, 2018
A slate of 10 league games wasn’t enough to separate the Randolph and Allegany-Limestone boys basketball teams, nor the Franklinville and Ellicottvill...
Big 30, Buffalo Bills, Columnists, ...
Nov 06, 2017
It wasn’t the best three days for Southern Tier sports fans. Starting Thursday night through Saturday evening, with the exception of the Allegany-Lime...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Nov 04, 2017
ORCHARD PARK — For two and a half quarters, Franklinville/Ellicottville looked primed for a sectional title, and perhaps a run at the state championsh...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Oct 29, 2017
DUNKIRK — The Allegany-Limestone girls soccer team came into the year wanting a sectional title. And it knew what that would entail. “Even in preseaso...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 27, 2017
There's not much Chad Bartoszek has to say come game day this time of the year to motivate his Franklinville/Ellicottville football team. Section 6 Cl...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 21, 2017
ELLICOTTVILLE — Chad Bartoszek has been stressing to his Franklinville/Ellicottville football team the importance of remaining focused on its “big-pic...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Sep 22, 2017
OLEAN — It’s hard to shut out Calista Heister. It’s even more difficult to blank the Olean High girls soccer team as a whole. But undefeated Maple Gro...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Sep 16, 2017
BEMUS POINT — If there was any question which of the eight Section 6 Class D football teams was the front-runner, at least as this season edges to the...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
May 28, 2017
DUNKIRK — The wait ended for the Portville Central School softball team … threefold. The Panthers’ Section 6 Class C-2 final with Maple Grove was post...
Baseball, Big 30, High School, ...
May 28, 2017
JAMESTOWN — This one will gnaw at Eric Hemphill for awhile. The Allegany-Limestone baseball coach had steered his team into Saturday afternoon’s Class...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Growing up, my family was destitute. If not for food stamps, we would have had little food — even so, there were times when our refrigerator was empty...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — President Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law, and for the first time in many decades immigration enforcement does not resem...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BELFAST — A newly constructed and reopened bridge on County Road 26 in the town of Belfast has been named the William “Bill” A. Nichols Bridge. Allega...
June 16, 2025
Donald L. Thierman, Sr. OLEAN --- Donald L. Thierman, Sr., 86, passed away peacefully Friday (June 13, 2025) at The Pines of Olean. Born August 14, 19...
