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When U.S. veterans returned home from serving in Vietnam, many were spat on and called filthy names. More than 40 years later, veterans near and far w...

The Seneca Battalion of the U.S. Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at St. Bonaventure University will induct four SBU alumni into its ROTC Hall of...

In Tuesday’s edition, we touched on how Olcott P. Boardman lost virtually everything when a tornado tore through the Olean area on March 20, 1834. Boa...

Shotguns are very versatile firearms and used for a variety of chores. In the history of firearms, didn’t taken hunters long to discover shooting a la...

My favorite cartridge has changed over the years. At the age of 12 I started hunting with a low-budget rifle, the Savage Model 340. It was chambered i...

From women helping to fight for the vote to preparing for another World War, from the birth of the Olean BOCES center to a national title for a local ...

Wendi Hurd, a human resources employee in Jenkinsville, South Carolina, keeps a special memento in her office: a U.S. flag that had flown on a combat ...

The year, I recall, was 1992. The sense of place is vivid still. My wife, Caroline, and I had stopped for lunch at a taverna in Kardamyli, a seaside s...

HINSDALE — A suspicious package outside Hinsdale Central School caused a shelter-in-place warning and police to deploy bomb-sniffing dogs Friday morni...

HINSDALE — A suspicious package outside Hinsdale Central School caused a shelter-in-place warning and police to deploy bomb-sniffing dogs Friday morni...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Twenty-two-year-old Frederick Kittleman of Olean hadn’t even arrived at artillery training camp when he began writing his first lett...

BRADFORD, Pa. — After two black cheerleaders at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford knelt during the playing of the National Anthem on Feb. 18, a...

I am a worrier. I try not to be, but I am. Anxiety and panic can overtake me if I’m not careful, especially when seeing or hearing headline news of th...

BRADFORD, Pa. — For the past three decades, adults and children of all ages have cast off the winter blues by testing their shooting and ax throwing s...

Today we take another of what will be frequent looks back at the homefront as, 75 years ago this week, Olean-area residents joined the nation in still...

LITTLE VALLEY — It’s been a little over two years since the group Citizens Advocating Memorial Preservation offered to help save the Civil War Memoria...

In Thursday’s edition we wrote about a World War II bomber pilot from Olean, 2nd Lt. William Otto Rottstedt. An aviation history researcher in Ireland...

When a World War II bomber pilot from Olean was flying his B-17 across the North Atlantic in February 1944, low fuel forced him to seek a place to mak...