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September 27, 2025
SALAMANCA — A Salamanca man was being held for the murder of another person in the city, Salamanca police reported Saturday. Andrew C. Skye, 35, of 31...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Nov 09, 2019
It was the one instance in which the Portville football team’s superiority actually might have hurt it. Entering their Section 6 Class C semifinal wit...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Nov 09, 2019
EAST AURORA — Leading the Allegany-Limestone girls cross country team to a third-place finish in Section 6 Class C2, Angelina Napoleon qualified for t...
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
Nov 06, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — Talk about pulling the plug on an off-season of hype. The tone seemed to be set before tipoff when Whitey Martin and Bob Sassone wer...
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
Nov 05, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — Outside the locker room doors, anticipation has been rising. “Just over 72 hours from tipping off our Centennial Season,” the offici...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Nov 04, 2019
WARSAW — The Fillmore girls soccer team had come oh-so-close before. A year ago, the Eagles advanced the sectional championship game, but dropped a 2-...
Basketball, College Sports, Columnists, ...
Nov 01, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — Mark Schmidt provided the perfect summation of the first 20 minutes of his team’s exhibition game Wednesday night. “This is not stre...
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 ...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Oct 29, 2019
ORCHARD PARK — For apoplectic Bills fans who are convinced the sky is falling after their fast-starting team was manhandled, 31-13, by the Eagles Sund...
Buffalo Sabres, Local Sports, Olean, ...
Oct 27, 2019
BUFFALO — After the Sabres fired Phil Housley on April 7, he wasn’t sure if he wanted to coach again. Housley’s dismissal after two losing seasons hit...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Oct 27, 2019
ORCHARD PARK — The numbers are concerning, 5-1 record notwithstanding. To be sure, Buffalo’s fast start has made the Bills one of the surprise teams o...
Basketball, College Sports, Columnists, ...
Oct 26, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — For all the shots he’d made during this torrid stretch, it was the one he missed that stayed with him. In this way, Dominick Welch w...
College Sports, Local Sports, Olean, ...
Oct 25, 2019
Mark Schmidt sat to the left of Saint Louis coach Travis Ford, maintaining a positive demeanor despite being forced to relive the ending to last year’...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Oct 24, 2019
SALAMANCA — Tyra Clark always had an answer Wednesday afternoon for the Randolph girls soccer team. Clark, a sophomore forward for the Cardinals, scor...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Oct 22, 2019
Steve Smith would take this over another hollow title any day of the week. In three of his first four seasons, his Bolivar-Richburg football team, aft...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Oct 22, 2019
It’s hard not to be incredulous when looking at the American Football Conference standings. Other than the four division leaders, only two teams have ...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Oct 21, 2019
ORCHARD PARK — Ryan Fitzpatrick should have known better, after all he played four seasons and 55 games for the Bills … half of them at then-Ralph Wil...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Oct 20, 2019
Early this season, it appeared that Ryan Fitzpatrick’s career as an NFL quarterback was winding down. He started the first two games for the beleaguer...
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
Oct 18, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — Matt Johnson stood in the front row of the Reilly Center Hall of Fame room, gazing through the window at the empty court before him....
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
"There is never, ever a good reason to force a government shutdown. It disrupts vital government services, hurts those dependent on those services, un...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
This past Sunday I climbed Phelps Mountain, one of the 46 high peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. As I was hiking, I thought back to 1968 ...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
Less than a month into school, Olean parents are already facing tough challenges. I’ve seen posts of a student bruised and bloodied, another who switc...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
ALBANY — New Yorkers continue to face some of the costliest health premiums in the United States, and the insurance industry’s recently finalized rate...
Lifestyle, Lifestyles
October 2, 2025
The filmography of American writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is an eclectic collection of character-driven stories that often include a combinatio...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
October 2, 2025
PORTVILLE — The idea to make a launch point for kayaks and other watercraft on the Allegheny River in the town of Portville has resulted in the develo...
