Basketball, Big 30, High School, ...
Dec 31, 2022
ALLEGANY — An undefeated season is a tall task for any team and while the Otto-Eldred girls basketball team’s looked promising, it ended with a 52-43 ...
Big 30, Columnists, Football, ...
Nov 28, 2022
Six years ago, this might have been difficult for Justin Bienkowski to imagine. Oh, the former Johnsonburg standout had gotten off to an encouraging s...
Football, High School, Sports
Nov 22, 2022
BROCKPORT — There was little mystery who would be receiving the ball for the Randolph football team Monday night. It didn’t matter. Of his team’s 58 o...
Football, High School, Sports
Nov 18, 2022
The Cardinals wanted a chance for revenge and they got it. In 2021, a team loaded with juniors broke out for an undefeated regular season and Section ...
Football, High School, Sports
Nov 11, 2022
ORCHARD PARK — For an entire quarter, classic Randolph football took the stage at Highmark Stadium. Up 22-8 at halftime and receiving the second half ...
Football, High School, Sports
Nov 09, 2022
ORCHARD PARK — Expectations, naturally, were through the roof. Bringing back all but four seniors from a group that earned sectional glory at Highmark...
Football, High School, Sports
Nov 04, 2022
The Big 30 will have at least one, possibly two, teams in next week’s Section 6 Class D football championship at Highmark Stadium. The question to be ...
Cattaraugus County, News
Oct 29, 2022
RANDOLPH — Downtown Randolph and Weeden Park were a sea of red on Saturday as 150 volunteer students from Randolph Central School gave back during “Ma...
Football, High School, Sports
Oct 22, 2022
PORTVILLE — Both teams entered with a chance to clinch the top playoff seed and the regular season Section 6 Class D league title. But the Randolph fo...
Football, High School, Sports
Oct 21, 2022
This may be the biggest test of just how much the Portville football team has improved from last season. A year ago, Randolph ended the Panthers’ seas...
High School, Soccer, Sports
Oct 21, 2022
PORTVILLE — J.J. McIntosh admitted he wasn’t thrilled to see the Portville boys soccer team’s first-round playoff draw. The Panthers earned the No. 2 ...
Football, High School, Sports
Oct 13, 2022
ALLEGANY — Who says kickers aren’t real football players? Not only does Anthony DeCapua regularly boot the ball through the uprights for the Allegany-...
Football, High School, Sports
Oct 06, 2022
A week ago at this time, the Big 30’s New York football teams were at a bit of a collective crossroads. A couple of squads had just suffered their fir...
Football, High School, Sports
Sep 29, 2022
For many New York-based Big 30 football teams, Week 4 marked not only the halfway point in their seasons, but also a potential turning point … or perh...
Football, High School, Sports
Sep 21, 2022
Their teams had already played three games, 12 quarters, over a third of this 2022 regular high school football season. And still, not one, but two co...
Football, High School, Sports
Sep 17, 2022
FRANKLINVILLE — Another week, another checkmark in the Randolph football team’s quest to repeat atop the Section 6 Class D standings. After defeating ...
High School, Soccer, Sports
Sep 15, 2022
RANDOLPH — A 1-0 deficit at halftime didn’t faze J.J. McIntosh’s Portville boys soccer team. Instead, the Panthers grabbed possession of the second ha...
Football, High School, Sports
Sep 07, 2022
A week ago in this space, we proclaimed rather confidently that it was going to be a collectively good year for the Big 30 football teams in New York....
Crime, News
June 16, 2025
OLEAN — A West Valley woman faces felony welfare fraud charges following an investigation, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office reported. Nicole L....
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
More rain is on the way for the Olean area in the coming week, though the National Weather Service predicts a lower chance for severe weather than the...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
OLEAN — The regular monthly meeting of the Olean Public Library Board of Trustees will be held Wednesday, June 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the library's Conf...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BRADFORD, Pa. — To understand the engineering challenges they had set before them, members of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s Baja Racing C...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BRADFORD, Pa. — In August 2024, Keating Township supervisors Dave McClain, John Anderson and Ryan Herzog adopted a protective ordinance that attempted...
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. ...
