military

From the battlefield to the public spotlight, the banner known as the Confederate flag has had a long, varied history, local historians and Civil War ...

If you’re thinking of a hunting trip out West, the opportunity for a long-range hunting shot just increased from “unlikely” in the forests of New York...

FRIENDSHIP — More than 70 years after his death, Staff Sgt. Harold Kuhn is now laid to rest next to his parents, brother and aunt. Family, the Friends...

ULYESSES, Pa. — After more than six decades of not knowing the fate of their loved one, there is now closure for the family of Army Cpl. William Sadew...

OLEAN — The family of U.S. Army Pfc. Donald L. Buchanan gathered Saturday in pristine sunlight as soft breezes swept golden leaves along the clipped, ...

BRADFORD, Pa. — When Elmer DeLucia learned that the remains of another lost Army Air Forces airman from World War II had been found in New Guinea, the...

ANGELICA — The Allegheny Highlands Council Boy Scouts of America and the 136th New York Volunteer Infantry, known as “The Ironclads,” will march the C...

ROCHESTER — Staff Sgt. Harold Kuhn and Cpl. William Sadewasser didn’t live enough years to start families of their own, and have been gone for so long...

They come from all backgrounds, cultures and hometowns, each seeking something a little different. Their paths are perhaps guided by a sense of purpos...

State & Union TBTC 9-18 to 9-24-17 From making the best of a streetcar crash to enlisting women to be Rosie the Riveter, from hitting high notes in th...

In Saturday’s edition, the son of Korean War veteran Leonard K. Edwards, who grew up in Olean, shared more information about the service of his father...

In the Sept. 2 edition we wrote about U.S. Army Sgt. Leonard K. Edwards, an Olean High School graduate, on the anniversary of his survival of a North ...

From a big effort to help on the Western Front to rebuilding the city’s dykes, from a family in politics to a prime time appearance by an Olean native...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has sent 10 UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters and 55 soldiers from the New York Army National Guard's 42nd Combat Aviation Bri...

OLEAN — The area will commemorate the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on Monday with ceremonies in Olean and at St. Bonaventure University...

It was a remarkable story of an Olean soldier’s courage and survival during the desperate fighting on the Pusan Perimeter in the early months of the K...

Secret rooms, family heirlooms and stone memorials will be celebrated in September, according to Allegany County History Awareness Week organizers. Th...

The family of Sgt. 1st Class Brian Blade hopes he will continued to be remembered after a banquet room in Fort Drum’s newly renovated dining facility ...