News
May 31, 2021
OLEAN — A short ceremony Monday allowed Oleanders to gather and reflect on those who died defending the nation. Dozens of residents attended the cerem...
Western New York
Apr 30, 2021
BUFFALO — It looks much different from one year ago at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park. In spring 2020, the Naval Park was shutter...
News, Western New York
Feb 26, 2021
BUFFALO — Harsh winter weather and winds have damaged the USS The Sullivans, a World War II-era destroyer at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Milit...
News
Dec 05, 2020
HONOLULU (AP) — Navy sailor Mickey Ganitch was getting ready to play in a Pearl Harbor football game as the sun came up on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, he s...
Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
Nov 12, 2020
By mid-October 1968, I had arrived in Vietnam to begin my nearly 400-day odyssey. Basic training at Fort Dix, military police school in Georgia and th...
Local News, News
Nov 10, 2020
As we look ahead to Veterans Day, which is Wednesday, we urge readers to take a long look at our special section inserted today, saluting veterans fro...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Sep 24, 2020
Donald Trump’s history of denigrating our country’s brave service men and women and his praise for dangerous dictators endanger the security of our mi...
Allegany County News, Local News, News
Aug 22, 2020
In a picture he looks all of 14. But in fact he’s 24. My brother, Robert Littell, Alfred University alumnus, later to become a world-famous author of ...
Local News, News
May 22, 2020
On this Memorial Day weekend, we look back at one of the deadliest days in the history of U.S. Special Operations. Nineteen Americans — among them U.S...
Allegany County News, Local News, News
Apr 02, 2020
Seven years ago, U.S. Navy Lt. Rebekah Fleming joined the Navy for the education and career opportunities it would provide her. Now she’s serving on t...
Allegany County News, Local News
Mar 31, 2020
MAYPORT — Seven years ago, Lt. Rebekah Fleming joined the Navy for the education and career opportunities it would provide her, and she is now serving...
Local News, News
Dec 07, 2019
Late in the 1990s, Eloise Coyne’s sister convinced her to come down from the Southern Tier of New York to Florida. Eloise did, and she soon met someon...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News, ...
Aug 30, 2019
A 42-year member of the American Legion from Limestone was honored this month for his life of service — to his country, to his community and to his Le...
Outdoors
Aug 07, 2019
The oceans are huge, deep and mysterious, stretching across the globe from the bitter cold of the poles to the blistering heat of the tropics. Oceans ...
Commentary, Local Columnists
May 30, 2019
Last month a group of veterans I was stationed with in Baghdad, Iraq from 2008-9 met in Florida for our much-anticipated reunion. Sadly, last year we ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News
May 28, 2019
OLEAN — Hundreds lined South Union Street on Monday to watch Olean’s Memorial Day parade and ceremonies. One veteran who was awaiting the casting of t...
Local News, News
May 26, 2019
When World War II ended in 1945, hundreds of men and women from Olean and the Twin Tiers region returned in jubilant homecomings, as family and friend...
News
May 26, 2019
From a call to veterans to remember their fallen comrades to a small world for sailors at war; from hopes for ice skating at War Vets Park to new hope...
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...
