News
Oct 12, 2022
OLEAN — Why just put your selfie online when you could get it put in print? The Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce and the Woodland in the City Co...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 23, 2022
Like all cultural institutions, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has been under pressure to diversify its honorees, given the preponderance of old white g...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 03, 2021
In the days followingJuly 4, 1776, crowds gathered in small towns and large throughout the 13 colonies. They came together in public squares, on stree...
Crime, News, Western New York
May 11, 2021
JAMESTOWN (TNS) — A newly installed Underground Railroad statue has been stolen in Jamestown. Jamestown police reported that a copper statue titled “U...
Local News, News
Nov 28, 2020
When Ellen Weaver of Olean was walking to the entrance of the William O. Smith Recreation Center earlier this fall, she noticed something for the firs...
Local News
Nov 12, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” the iconic song from the Band’s self-titled 1969 album, will serve as a starting point for th...
News, NY State News
Oct 09, 2020
SYRACUSE (TNS) — A group of Italian-Americans is exploring legal action to prevent Mayor Ben Walsh from removing the Columbus statue from its prominen...
Local News, News, Olean
Aug 11, 2020
OLEAN — A stunning piece of stained glass is the highlight of the Olean Public Library’’s “Olean Together Apart” campaign. The stained glass, featurin...
News, NY State News, Outdoors, ...
Jul 17, 2020
ROCHESTER (TNS) — At the site where escaped enslaved people once boarded ships to make their way to Canada and freedom, the present met the past on Th...
Local News, News, NY State News, ...
Jul 10, 2020
BUFFALO (TNS ) — Another statue is coming down amid protests calling for social change and racial equality, this time in Western New York. WKB W repor...
Local News, NY State News
Jul 08, 2020
ALBANY (AP) — Amid controversies over monuments of historical figures in dozens of communities, a group of volunteers in Plattsburgh has found a way t...
News, Western New York
Jul 06, 2020
ROCHESTER — On the same weekend in which Frederick Douglass 168 years ago gave his “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” a statue honoring the fa...
News, NY State News
Jun 21, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objection...
Local News, NY State News
Jun 14, 2020
ALBANY (AP) — A statue being removed from New York’s capital city of slave-owning Revolutionary War general Philip Schuyler could end up on display in...
Local News, News, Western New York
May 09, 2020
Olean’s cute, quirky squirrel statues that have decorated the city landscape for the past 14 years are now described and displayed in the spring editi...
Coronavirus, Local News, News
Apr 11, 2020
With so many workplaces and all schools shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, many folks are out there trying to make the best of their time ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Jan 04, 2019
The holidays are over and now we must stare into “the long dark teatime of the soul” that is winter in Upstate New York. But as it is a new year, it’s...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Sep 26, 2017
OLEAN — For the first time in a decade, the annual Rock City Park Gem-Mineral-Fossil Show will be scaled back to a two-day event, running Saturday and...
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...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Cathy Briggs, memorial service OLEAN — A memorial service for Cathy Briggs will be held Thursday (June 19, 2025) at Guenther Funeral Home, 1303 E. Sta...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
William S. Clemens ALLEGANY — William S. “Bill” Clemens, 74, of Allegany, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, surround...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
John R. Cornwall, loving husband, father and brother FREEDOM — John R. Cornwall, 75, of Freedom, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at his home, su...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Dennis L. Holliday, loving husband, father and grandfather LIMESTONE — Dennis L. Holliday, of Nichols Run Road, passed away Tuesday (June 10, 2025). D...
