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BRADFORD, Pa. — Several area students were among the 57 to graduate from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford at the end of the fall term. The stu...

OLEAN — A long line of about 60 masked people extended around two sides of the former Good Times of Olean building on Saturday to pick up gifts for th...

SALAMANCA — The Museum Association of New York (MANY) has announced that 98 museums from across New York state have been selected to participate in it...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — The alleged hostile behavior of an elected member of the Otto-Eldred School Board led the rest of the board to issue a public censu...

The Cattaraugus County Department of the Aging’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) is seeking volunteers from all areas of the county to hel...

We live in a time of heedless iconoclasm, and so one of the country’s oldest traditions is under assault. Thanksgiving is increasingly portrayed as, a...

Answered prayers: Those words come to mind with the news that local attorneys Jack Hart and Ed Wagner have donated a beautiful new home to the African...

I am not one for coddling children, but the narrative that our kids bear some outsize responsibility for the spread of COVID is demonstrably false. Si...

The Pfizer vaccine, along with its likely successors, is a very good thing for the U.S. and the world. Yet it's also likely to reshape America in some...

New York AssemblymanWill Barclay, R-Pulaski, has tested positive for the coronavirus. “As a precautionary measure, I took a Covid-19 test today,” Barc...

After months of devastating polling data and the relentless media narrative that President Donald Trump was going to be consumed by a dumpster fire of...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — A flood of new support is prompting the Otto Township Old Home Days committee to give the event another try. Earlier this month, th...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The Jandoli Institute will explore the connection between music and social justice in a new project named “Sharp Notes, Sharp Though...

A special announcement posted to the social media page of the Otto Township Old Home Days committee, by member Mat Coast, notes that a meeting will be...

Editor’s Note: These commentaries are a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly with area residents, in hopes of cre...

OLEAN — When Harvest Field Ministries opened its soup kitchen Wednesday, they received one of the highest numbers of recipients in its eight year hist...

Editor’s Note: These commentaries are a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly with area residents, in hopes of cre...

If all goes well, there could be little superheroes, princesses, witches and goblins walking area streets on Halloween thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s a...