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    High-speed rail is a progressive fantasy
    Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
    High-speed rail is a progressive fantasy
    RICH LOWRY 
    Oct 11, 2022
    California progressives tried to build a European-style high-speed rail network and alienated the French in the process. A big New York Times piece on...
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    Sound of the past: Train rails installed at Pioneer Oil Museum
    Allegany County News, News
    Sound of the past: Train rails installed at Pioneer Oil Museum
    KATHRYN ROSS Olean Times Herald 
    Jul 31, 2021
    BOLIVAR — The ring of steel hitting steel echoed through the clear morning air for the first time in decades Saturday. Residents of Bolivar heard the ...
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    Gas leak in Salamanca rail yard leads to elementary school evacuation
    Cattaraugus County, News
    Gas leak in Salamanca rail yard leads to elementary school evacuation
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Mar 12, 2020
    SALAMANCA — A rail car in east Salamanca began leaking argon gas Thursday morning, leading to the evacuation of Prospect Elementary School. Salamanca ...
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    Latest addition to Salamanca Rail Museum arrives from Ohio
    Cattaraugus County, News
    Latest addition to Salamanca Rail Museum arrives from Ohio
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Jan 02, 2020
    SALAMANCA — All aboard the newest addition to the Salamanca Rail Museum! This past weekend, the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad caboose completed its ...
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    State & Union: Poll shows readers slightly more optimistic about 2018 than they were 2017
    Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
    State & Union: Poll shows readers slightly more optimistic about 2018 than they were 2017
    Jan 24, 2018
    Looking ahead to a better year? As 2017 was getting underway — less than two months after the election of Donald Trump as president — the Olean Times ...
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    Jamestown grant could spur rail plan through Cattaraugus County
    Western New York
    Jamestown grant could spur rail plan through Cattaraugus County
    RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald 
    Jun 01, 2017
    A Jamestown infrastructure grant announced Tuesday by Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is a first critical step in developing a rail excursion corridor from Niag...
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    Robert E. Stephens
    Julie Keim 
    June 16, 2025
    Robert E. Stephens PORTVILLE --- Robert E. Stephens of 24 Finch Street, passed away on Friday, June 13, 2025 at the Cuba Memorial Skilled Nursing Faci...
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    David W. Leaskey
    David W. Leaskey
    Julie Keim 
    June 16, 2025
    David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
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    David W. Leaskey
    Julie Keim 
    June 16, 2025
    David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
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    Ruth M. Baillargeon
    Julie Keim 
    June 16, 2025
    Ruth M. Baillargeon,  mother, grandmother, sister BELFAST --- Ruth M. Baillargeon, 82, of Belfast, New York, passed away Monday, June 16, 2025 at High...
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    Robert E. Stephens
    Julie Keim 
    June 16, 2025
    Robert E. Stephens PORTVILLE === Robert E. Stephens of 24 Finch Street, passed away on Friday, June 13, 2025 at the Cuba Memorial Skilled Nursing Faci...
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    Another NY legislative session of missed opportunities, misplaced priorities
    Commentary, Opinion
    Another NY legislative session of missed opportunities, misplaced priorities
    By SEN. GEORGE BORRELLO 
    June 16, 2025
    Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I talk about what’s happening in Albany — but the failures keep repeating. This year was no different. Whil...
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