Local Columnists, Nation World
Feb 13, 2021
It’s an old political trick to make an easily achievable goal sound vauntingly ambitious in order to brag about it when it’s inevitably met. It takes ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News, ...
Feb 13, 2021
A recent State & Union on a North Fourth Street home generated discussion in and outside the newsroom. Dave Deckman, city historian, reached out to th...
Business, News, NY State News, ...
Nov 02, 2020
ILION — Workers at the sprawling Remington factory in this Upstate New York village took pride in a local gunmaking tradition stretching back to the d...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
Oct 30, 2020
Buffalo City Court Judge Amy C. Martoche, a Democrat, faces Western New York attorney Gerald J. Greenan III, a Republican, in the election for a seat ...
Local News, News
Oct 12, 2020
BRADFORD, Pa. — The Port Allegany Education Support Professionals Association, the union that represents the support staff employees in the Port Alleg...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Oct 03, 2020
It’s October and overnight temperatures are getting cooler and cooler. We’ve already seen our first frost of the season, arriving in September, which,...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
Sep 01, 2020
The times are so strange, so confusing, so upside-down that it is easy to miss what counted most at the two national political conventions conducted u...
News, NY State News
Aug 20, 2020
ALBANY (TNS) — Concerns about NYC’s recently enacted police reforms, including legal liability for physical harm, triggered the New York State Trooper...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 31, 2020
(TNS) In recent decades, we have rarely seen so much worker anger and so many strikes as we’ve seen since COVID-19 hit America. Fears of the virus hav...
Baseball
Jun 17, 2020
NEW YORK — Yankees President Randy Levine called on the players’ association to resume negotiations with Major League Baseball to start the pandemic-d...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Apr 28, 2020
We hadn’t heard from — or, actually, seen anything from — local shutterbug Dan Jordan in a while. Dan has been gracious in the past in sending some gr...
Allegany County News, Local News, News
Apr 18, 2020
One thing about the shutdown because of coronavirus, folks have more time to just take a walk or drive to see the sights or enjoy nature. Marian Blair...
Local News, News
Jan 28, 2020
Judith Meis of Olean writes us to share her memories of businesses that were once in the Buffalo Street building that was destroyed by fire last week....
Local News, News
Sep 20, 2019
Chris Crawford of Olean was on North Union Street in the area of the Big Lots parking lot when she saw where a kind passerby put flowers around a down...
Local News, News
Aug 01, 2019
There’s more time to get ready for some hoops. Gus Macker officials from the organization’s headquarters in Belding, Mich., have extended the deadline...
Local News, News
May 05, 2019
State & Union readers know we love our American bald eagles, so it’s sad news we pass along today about the demise this past week of a popular eagle f...
Local News, News, Western New York
Jan 18, 2019
OLEAN — Mayor Bill Aiello declared a snow event Friday in anticipation of the predicted snowstorm for this weekend. The snow event is effective 12:01 ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Dec 22, 2018
In Saturday’s edition we related the story of Lt. Sylvenus A. Fay, the Union officer in the 85th New York from Olean who was captured in the Battle of...
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...
