Baseball, High School, Softball, ...
Apr 14, 2022
PORT ALLEGANY, Pa. — Smethport had waited patiently for its chance. While the teams around them played through the first portion of their schedules, t...
Basketball, Big 30, Columnists, ...
Feb 08, 2022
Let’s get the obvious out of the way: The Otto-Eldred girls are a really good basketball team. The Terrors are currently 14-0 in league play. They jus...
Big 30, College Sports, Columnists, ...
Apr 22, 2021
An update on the Section 6 high school wrestling season and notes on former Big 30 standouts Marina Miketish (Olean) and Connor Alfieri (Smethport): F...
Basketball, High School, Local Sports, ...
Feb 06, 2021
BRADFORD, Pa. — In a game where it made four more field goals than Smethport, Bradford still found itself on the wrong end of the scoreboard. Whistled...
Basketball, Big 30, High School, ...
Jan 20, 2021
BRADFORD, Pa. — The Otto-Eldred girls basketball team kept its undefeated record intact, cruising to a 53-24 road win over Bradford Tuesday night. Lea...
Basketball, Big 30, High School, ...
Jan 09, 2021
SMETHPORT, Pa. — Cameron County six’s seniors, like other winter sport athletes in Pennsylvania, had been itching to get back on the court. Friday mar...
Local News
Dec 12, 2020
TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Samantha Newton, of Smethport, Pa., graduated Dec. 5 from The University of Tampa, magna cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in mana...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Nov 01, 2020
BROCKWAY, Pa. — Smethport’s 22-year wait will continue. The Hubbers’ season came to a tough conclusion on Saturday, as Smethport was defeated by Redba...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 17, 2020
COUDERSPORT, Pa. — It had been nearly two full calendar years since Coudersport lost to a team from within District 9, but three days short of reachin...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 16, 2020
COUDERSPORT, Pa. — It’s become the top rivalry in District 9’s Small School North Division, and the latest chapter in that series gets written tonight...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 03, 2020
SMETHPORT, Pa. — It’s a problem Port Allegany has faced before. For the third week in a row, a dynamic opposing quarterback was able to overwhelm the ...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Sep 29, 2020
It was business as usual in the Intermediate Unit 9 bubble, with the area’s top teams imposing their will on struggling opponents in Week 1. In the La...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Sep 25, 2020
SMETHPORT, Pa. — One of the biggest games this week in the Intermediate Unit 9 bubble will take place tonight when Smethport hosts Elk County Catholic...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Sep 18, 2020
RIDGWAY, Pa. — A year ago, Ridgway led Kane 21-10 entering the fourth quarter before the Wolves rallied for a 25-21 upset of the Elkers at Paul R. Mil...
Basketball, Big 30, High School, ...
Feb 19, 2020
Ten days after Ridgway topped Smethport, 50-33, the Elkers and Hubbers are set to meet again. The two teams will face off in the District 9 Class AA p...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 30, 2019
That was quick. It sure seems like yesterday that the 2019 high school football season began on a balmy Friday night in late August. But fast forward ...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 28, 2019
Many of the scores from an early Week 0 for area Pennsylvania football teams were status quo. Smethport and Coudersport, the defending District 9 Smal...
Softball, Sports
May 07, 2019
DUKE CENTER, Pa. — It’s not often that an area softball team hits three home runs and still comes out on the losing end. But that’s what happened to C...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BELFAST — A newly constructed and reopened bridge on County Road 26 in the town of Belfast has been named the William “Bill” A. Nichols Bridge. Allega...
June 16, 2025
Donald L. Thierman, Sr. OLEAN --- Donald L. Thierman, Sr., 86, passed away peacefully Friday (June 13, 2025) at The Pines of Olean. Born August 14, 19...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
CUBA — The village of Cuba hosted the Dairy Days 2025 celebration over the weekend, which featured the Community Yard Sale throughout the area on Satu...
Local News, News
June 14, 2025
OLEAN — The first protest Nevin Oliphant took part in was in 1967 in Los Angeles. He was a young teenager protesting the Vietnam War. In 2025 his caus...
