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Local historians report receiving many calls over the years around the Fourth of July from journalists attempting to track down the history behind two...

A Flag Day event last week in a tiny hamlet underscored one of the more remarkable bits of historical fact in Cattaraugus County: The longest-survivin...

U.S. Army Maj. Patrick Miller, the Allegany-Limestone graduate who was wounded but acted to save lives in a 2014 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, ha...

From a call to arms in the first Great War to a call to arms in the next, from graduates entering an uncertain world to Bradford netting its first Dav...

FRANKLINVILLE — The third annual Cadiz Flag Day event at Cadiz Cemetery will be held June 10, beginning with a community picnic at noon. The public is...

From women getting hired by the Pennsylvania Railroad to readying the “Greatest Generation” for war, from remembering the fallen to lauding one of the...

ALLEGANY — For many at Monday’s Memorial Day parade, the names engraved on the Veterans’ Memorial outside Allegany Town Hall are much more than names....

OLEAN — “They were regular guys — they worked at Clark Brothers, they worked at the tile plant. They went to Olean High School and Archbishop Walsh.” ...

Crowds lined Main St in downtown Portville Monday afternoon for the Veteran's Day Parade. They then shifted to the Chestnut Hill Cemeteryfor the cerem...

CUBA — When Memorial Day 2018 rolls around, families and friends of veterans in the Cuba area will be able to visit the Cuba Area Veterans Living Memo...

Today, on Memorial Day, we remember U.S. military personnel who gave their lives while serving their country. Our special insert, Some Gave All, in to...

Clifford C. Finn Jr., a 1948, graduate of Allegany High School, was described as a young man with a quiet and unassuming manner. During his high schoo...

OLEAN — Thelma Burchard is a woman who has herded cattle, made airplane parts during World War II, lived on both sides of the country for decades at a...

Stephen Clute, Hinsdale’s town historian, passed along to us an item from the Hinsdale Historical Society newsletter that explains the history of the ...

ALLEGANY — Dick Anderson fulfilled his dream of riding a bicycle along with his son to the Vietnam Wall in Washington D.C. on Sunday. Anderson’s son, ...

From no drinks for doughboys to fresh blacktop becoming a war casualty, from Olean’s smelliest TV show to thwarting the Klan in Bradford, here’s a loo...

OLEAN — Local firefighters pulled out their hoses twice Saturday to fight back flames inside 616 W. State St. — first during the day, and then after d...

Our congratulations go out to Eric and Betty Lundberg of Promised Land Road in the town of Portville: On May 17, 1952, they were married in the Wesley...