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OLEAN — Whether at the First Presbyterian Church in Portville, the Portville Library or helping out in her community when a need for assistance arises...

Last week, we saw another horrific anti-Asian assault on video. A 65-year-old woman was walking to church in New York City when she was brutally attac...

OLEAN — April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Cattaraugus County Department of Social Services invite you to join them in raising awa...

Back in September, I wrote about how in the midst of the pandemic, there was a lot of good news that wasn’t getting much coverage. At the time, the po...

So here we are, one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s go over some of the things we’ve learned. “Avoid it like the plague” is no longer a useful ...

ALBANY — New York is expanding eligibility for the coronavirus vaccine to everyone age 50 and older, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday. The governor ...

OLEAN — Beat City Music has partnered with Strength Solutions to provide music scholarships to help individuals interested in learning to better affor...

WELLSVILLE — Allegany County officials want to hear ideas on how to make the county’s services more friendly to older residents. Wellsville-based nonp...

Allegany County Community Opportunities and Rural Development (ACCORD) will receive $4,039,677 in Head Start funds. ACCORD is a nonprofit Community Ac...

OLEAN — In sharing his spiritual path to Olean, Rev. John Adams prefers that the degrees behind his name are a side note, while the message of his sha...

PORTVILLE — It was just a year ago that community members and lot owners in the East Portville Cemetery Association met to discuss its future — and on...

OLEAN — For those who need time to relax, reflect and exercise in the comfort of their own home, virtual Yoga with Lisa may provide the answer. Yoga i...

Figuring out how to combine science with fairness in COVID-19 vaccine distribution is a tricky puzzle. Science can help predict how to distribute limi...

The American Cancer Society announced the appointment of Tammy Ahles of State College, Pa. as the vice president of regional community development for...

Responding to the call for social awareness made over the summer, SUNY Jamestown Community College’s president has formed a President’s Task Force on ...

We wonder why McKean County, Pa. is dying? As an entity, I mean, not from COVID-19, which is another matter. A vibrant and functional health care syst...

OLEAN — The city Youth Bureau and Recreation Department has begun its 2021 session of Hi/Lo impact aerobics at the John J. Ash Community Center. The s...

Several local leaders of charitable organizations in the community shared thoughts on the old year that was ushered out — and their hopes for the new ...