patrick vecchio

People walking and wheeling Thursday afternoon on the Allegheny River Valley Trail may have seen a man who wasn’t there for fun. He looked to be a tad...

OLEAN — During a presentation titled “The Life and Times of Bob Marley” on Aug. 18 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Patrick Vecchio will discuss the...

I flew to see family in Florida last month, and to avoid distractions, I didn’t watch or read the news. It wasn’t until I got home that Monday that I ...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County National Honor Society’s 46th annual recognition dinner Wednesday night was both a time to reflect and look to the futu...

A Facebook friend and I have been discussing America’s future in light of the tone of our times. It’s easy to predict nothing but gloom. Washington la...

When I taught introductory newswriting at St. Bonaventure, I would ask students two questions about stories they had written: What’s new here? What’s ...

Donald Trump tweeted a link Wednesday to an Emerson College survey showing, in his words, “Trump administration seen as more truthful than news media....

Any U.S. senator who votes to confirm Betsy DeVos as secretary of education should be jammed into a burn barrel and launched into the Potomac River. D...

Dollar signs danced through my head after news last week about Megyn Kelly, Congressman Tom Reed and Obamacare. Let’s start with Kelly and her new NBC...

I went to a wedding reception at the Bartlett Country Club last weekend, and guess who showed up? Donald Trump. Not his groping, grabbing self in the ...