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You won’t find the Olean Oilers on Thursday’s New York Collegiate Baseball League schedule, but they plan to be playing that night. Owner/manager Bria...

OLEAN — After a loss to Wellsville on Thursday, Olean Oilers owner/manager Brian O’Connell Jr. called his team’s next three games “pretty critical” in...

OLEAN — Give Brian O’Connell this, the Olean Oilers owner/manager is prescient. Before Sunday afternoon’s game against the Genesee Rapids at Bradner S...

OLEAN — The night didn’t start well for recently-signed Olean Oilers shortstop Ryan Simmons. Playing only his second game for the New York Collegiate ...

OLEAN — The Olean Oilers’ losing streak is finally over. All it took for the New York Collegiate Baseball League team to end its five-game skid was a ...

From ditching beef for “the other white meat” to Olean making Dracula blush, from the first grads at the Wellsville campus of Alfred State College to ...

OLEAN — A persistent batch of rain showers pushed back the first pitch of the Olean Oilers' 2018 New York Collegiate Baseball League home opener by mo...

OLEAN — The recruiting process for the 2018 season wasn’t without a few late adjustments for the Olean Oilers. Owner Brian O’Connell Jr., who will als...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part interview with Brian O’Connell, owner of the Olean Oilers, headed into their seventh season with the ...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part interview with Brian O’Connell, owner of the Olean Oilers, headed into their seventh season with the N...

From hearing from an Oleander on life in the Army camps to a crunched PONY League season, from an $18 million downtown renewal project with lots of pa...

Three years later, a favorite has emerged from the Times Herald’s now-annual year-end top 10 local sports stories piece. Predictably, it’s the St. Bon...

F rom a connection to the Lafayette Escadrille to “first blood” for Olean, from a new home for area Methodists to saving greyhounds, here’s a look bac...

Baseball and summer go hand-in-hand — and longtime local fans know that the Olean Oilers name dates back to the days of the PONY (Pennsylvania-Ontario...

From a look at Olean’s first World War I draft class to four sons in uniform for World War II, from a close call for an area parachutist to friends ba...

F rom stopping a train bombing to an axe to the chest for a local lumberjack, from stories of the tunnels of the Viet Cong to a new era for the Bonnie...

OLEAN — How do you give up 10 runs on 15 hits one night, then 48 hours later hold the same team to two runs on seven hits with the season on the line?...

OLEAN — It took a bit of extra work, even after a major rally, but the Olean Oilers have earned a first-round home game in the New York Collegiate Bas...