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OLEAN — During a five-day period earlier this week, neighbors on North Seventh Street, and many in the community, tried to help with the rescue of a y...

The trees were just beginning to silhouette clearly against the slowly lightening fall sky, their coal-black shapes etched ever sharper against the fa...

Fall officially started Monday, but you wouldn’t know it by the weather in the Southern Tier and across Upstate New York. High temperatures — more typ...

The sky was still dark, the predawn silent and solemn. It was in the 40s, but once outside I removed my jacket and shirt, tying them to my pack before...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — “Lingering ash.” That’s what the U.S. Forest Service calls the relatively few green and white ash trees that survive the emeral...

I still remember the glowing excitement I experienced as the first day of squirrel approached way back in the 1960s. All my friends and their fathers ...

In this day and age of IT, in which a business or home can have all kinds of security that can turn things on and off and give alerts, it’s hard to be...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued its annual summer request for participation in the Division of Lands and Forests’ A...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has renamed the State Tree Nursery in Saratoga Springs the Colonel Will...

BRADFORD, Pa. — A damaging storm struck the Kane area in McKean County Wednesday, but reports about a possible tornado touching down could not be conf...

Mayor Bill Aiello tells us that on Thursday National Grid, in celebration of Arbor Day, will plant a number of trees in Mount View Cemetery. In additi...

Earth Day turned 49 on Monday, but most Cattaraugus County environmental observances will have to wait until Saturday. The first Earth Day was observe...

Judging by Jim Eckstrom’s State & Union column in the Jan. 27 edition of the Olean Times Herald, he’s become a birder. Jim is the editor of the paper ...

PORTVILLE — When forecasters called for warming temperatures a few times earlier this year, Sprague’s Maple Farms in Portville chose not to tap maple ...

I happened to drive by a small stream last week and, looking through the heavily falling snow, was amazed to see the area had changed completely. Many...

Christmastime, a holiday built on traditions, is one of the more perfect times to reminisce. In that spirit, locals of a certain age from the Olean ar...

Perhaps you jumpstart the holidays by putting your tree up before Thanksgiving. Or maybe you’re more traditional and prefer to wait until closer to Ch...

Bill Steckman never seems to run out of creative ideas. When the 70-foot, 70-year-old pine tree in Steckman’s yard on Broad Street in Salamanca starte...