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The Common Council voted to borrow $1.6 million to build a splashpad. The vote was 5-2. This will cost the taxpayers $100,000 a year for years. In the...

Retired after decades as a teacher and administrator in the public school system, my move to become President at Archbishop Walsh/Southern Tier Cathol...

The Attorney General’s office waited. And waited. The bell tolled on the appeal deadline, and as the bell struck, Attorney General Letitia James filed...

In Wednesday’s edition of the Olean Times Herald, two letters to the editor in regard to the proposed city tax increase piqued my interest. Much of wh...

In the last two weeks there have been letters to the editor regarding caps on insulin prices. The first letter correctly referenced a $35 per month ca...

A dear young friend had been married for three years when she shared the exciting news: her first baby was on its way. Everyone was over-the-moon happ...

I am, as many are, concerned about where we are heading as a country in which government, both federal and state, controls more and more of our lives....

OLEAN — Common Council can afford a $1.5 million (and we all know it will cost more) splashpad but it rejected the city firefighters’ contract because...

I was astonished to read in Kellen M. Quigley’s “Seneca Mothers Stand in Solidarity with Ukraine” (Olean Times Herald, March 9, 2022) that “prior to t...

Many people ask the very fair question: “How do mask mandates undermine your freedoms?” This is a reasonable question and deserves a thoughtful respon...

I thank the Cattaraugus County Legislature for having the courage to state that they will not use county resources to enforce the governor’s misguided...

When the New York Department Health ordered that masks would be required indoors everywhere, our store mobilized to comply with the regulation. We pre...

The role of local government is to provide critical services that protect our community and foster our well being. This is true with policing, fire pr...

We have become addicted to funding. “We” means you and I, the People. “We” means school districts. “We” means town and county governments. Perhaps the...

As I prepare to leave office, after four fun-filled, enjoyable years, I wanted to say thank you to all the residents who have allowed me to serve as m...

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...

In his weekly phone call with local media — as reported in Wednesday’s Olean Times Herald — U.S. Rep. Tom Reed described what he wants to see in a rep...

The Olean Times Herald’s article in Friday’s edition, “City Seeks Vegetation Remedy,” regarding North Union Street contains yet another misleading sta...