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ELLICOTTVILLE — When a person is given an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, he or she has some serious considerations to review with family members or friends. A...

Each year with the advent of the holiday season, Megan Taylor hears stories of families who are in need of help for Christmas from the Gift Tree progr...

OLEAN — Users of mobility scooters will have more places to charge up while enjoying Walkable Olean, city officials reported Thursday. The Cattaraugus...

OLEAN — The busy Allegheny River Valley Trail crossing on Constitution Avenue is getting a makeover, with more to come, officials said. The Common Cou...

Potter County Commissioners recently approved a proclamation naming October 2018 as National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Marsha Dippold of ...

LOCKPORT — The next community to receive a $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant will be the first in the region not along the New York...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This report is part of a question-and-answer series, “Of Distinction,” that is meant to highlight the hard work of community leaders i...

A Bradford woman was arraigned Friday on allegations that she mistreated, malnourished and threatened to beat her 2-year-old son if police or social w...

One of Cattaraugus and Allegany counties’ major educational leaders has departed for a Central New York school district. Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES Su...

OLEAN — Did you know you can work while receiving Social Security? How to continue eligibility for SSD and SSI while working is just one of the topics...

OLEAN — The F.T. and Anna C. Manley Trust, administered by Key Bank, has awarded a $20,651.28 grant to Jamestown Community College Cattaraugus County ...

LITTLE VALLEY — Richard Rivers, interim director of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cattaraugus County, has been named executive director of the ...

OLEAN — When an older Olean woman and her elderly friend needed to travel to an appointment at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo this week, the...

ALLEGANY — A special meeting was conducted by the Allegany-Limestone Central School District board of education Tuesday in honor of five staff members...

PORTVILLE — An investigation stemming from a complaint by the Cattaraugus County Department of Social Services led to the arrest of a Portville woman ...

DEAR HARRIETTE: I work in Connecticut, and my best friend goes to school in Delaware. Her birthday is this weekend, and I am having trouble deciding i...

ALLEGANY — The proposed 2018-19 Allegany-Limestone School District budget of $23.2 million is expected to not only represent a 0.77 tax levy increase,...

Have you ever been lying in bed, unable to sleep soundly over financial worries? Or had a disagreement with your partner over money? Do you have a pla...