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ELDRED, Pa. — For 30 years, for free, Camp Penuel East has been quietly hosting kids at weeklong summer camps in McKean County. Children ages 7 to 11 ...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — The vocal group North Country Voices will present “Rising Dawn,” a choral concert, at 7 p.m. May 17 at the First Baptist Church in ...

Appeal officials announced Appeal 2024 in support of Catholic Charities of Buffalo and the Fund for the Faith has reached $5 million. As of Tuesday, t...

“Death to America!” We are used to that chant. Maybe too used to it. If you are old enough, you heard it in 1979 during the Iranian hostage crisis whe...

FRIENDSHIP — A monthly prayer gathering at Friendship Central School will be extended next week to include a full-day observance of the National Day o...

Nora Wilson Wheeler Logging and sawmilling are among the many skills the Amish employ in their work, so much so that the women drive the teams that he...

A group of area teens were en route to Wisconsin this week to compete in the annual National Bible Quiz Tournament. Held April 17-20 at the Chula Vist...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — A rifle used to shoot and kill two Central New York law enforcement officers was illegal, according to the Onondaga County Sheriff’s ...

NEW YORK — In Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliv...

ALBANY (TNS) —New Yorkrequires employers to offer health insurance to their workers that includes coverage for abortion services, but the state's top ...

Dr. Adil Al-Humadi, a retired Olean physician who helped establish the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at St. Bonaventure University , has donated...

NEW YORK — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar ecli...

Writer Coleman Hughes went on “The View” and was greeted almost as though he had shown up wearing a white hood. Hughes, a soft-spoken black intellectu...

BRADFORD, Pa. — In selecting a successor to lead the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau, the organization Executive Director Linda Devlin has b...

ROME — Pope Francis rallied from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems to lead some 60,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday, making a strong ...

OLEAN — The area’s Christian leaders bundled up in their parkas and wool hats to celebrate the Easter season with an outdoor Good Friday Prayer Servic...

FRIENDSHIP — Although Easter is seen by many as just another holiday during which families can get together for a time of relaxation and connections, ...

OLEAN — As the Easter season nears its conclusion, the Greater Olean Association of Churches will celebrate together on Good Friday. At noon in Lincol...