Basketball, Big 30, High School, ...
Feb 24, 2021
FREDONIA — The Olean High girls basketball team is officially on a roll. Nora Sweitzer registered 16 points, including a trio of 3-pointers, and Anaya...
Football, Local Sports, Olean, ...
Feb 06, 2021
Maybe it’s the product of Covid-19 and the fact the National Football League actually made it through 268 games to present its 55th Super Bowl come to...
Buffalo Bills, Football
Dec 29, 2020
ORCHARD PARK — Don’t let the Buffalo Bills’ polite talk about how the Patriots were merely the next opponent on their schedule fool you. For the team’...
Football, Local Sports, Olean, ...
Dec 29, 2020
A chaotic NFL season has come down to this. With Week 17 approaching, numerous NFL teams will be battling for their playoff lives in the regular seaso...
Buffalo Bills, Football, Local Sports, ...
Dec 12, 2020
There’s a reason Buffalo is favored tomorrow night when it hosts the 11-1 Steelers at Bills Stadium (8:20, NBC-TV, 95.7 FM, 100.1 FM, 550 AM). Coach S...
Football
Dec 06, 2020
James Franklin has said for weeks that Penn State’s 2020 season doesn’t truly define his program. The seventh-year head coach said he wanted his Nitta...
Basketball, Columnists, Local Sports, ...
Nov 24, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — Of all the significant early-season moments under Mark Schmidt, it’s among the most forgettable. And yet, it still has its place in ...
College Sports, Football
Oct 22, 2020
The Indiana Hoosiers took some big steps in rebranding their football program last season. Now they’re looking to build on the momentum. After posting...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Oct 21, 2020
EMPORIUM, Pa. — A month ago, the Cameron County girls volleyball team edged Coudersport in a tightly-contested five-set battle. In that one, the Red R...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Oct 14, 2020
OLEAN — The rust was evident, Dan Freeman said. And though his Olean High girls soccer team spent plenty of time in the opposing end, “we didn’t take ...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Oct 09, 2020
OLEAN — Despite being short on swimmers, the Olean High girls swimming and diving team battled in a 102-83 season opening loss Thursday against the re...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Oct 03, 2020
As this anything-but-normal NFL season reaches the quarter pole, the unbeaten Bills are facing their most interesting game to date. On Sunday afternoo...
Columnists, Local Sports, Olean, ...
Aug 24, 2020
To be sure, the 104th running of the Indianapolis 500 was unlike any of its predecessors. The track, actually in Speedway, Indiana, has nearly 260,000...
Columnists, Local Sports, Olean, ...
Aug 05, 2020
OLEAN — Jon Kirk, a long-time committee member of the Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament, gazed back at the...
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
Jun 12, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — There was a time when Steve Curran could never have envisioned being at St. Bonaventure. The Bonnies’ associate head coach visited t...
Big 30, High School, Local Sports, ...
Apr 13, 2020
The 2020 Big 30 Wrestling All-Star team included three wrestlers each from three schools, five seniors and four multi-year selections. Topping all Big...
Basketball, College Sports, Columnists, ...
Mar 06, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — Amadi Ikpeze was there. He wasn’t the only current member of the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team to have played on March 9 of ...
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
Mar 03, 2020
You can cite all the adages you want, and for the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team, they certainly ring true. New season. It doesn’t matter wha...
June 17, 2025
William 'Spike' Frank Preston SMETHPORT, Pa. --- William “Spike” Frank Preston, 78, of Smethport, peacefully passed away on Sunday (June 15, 2025), wi...
Obituaries
June 17, 2025
Donald L. Thierman Sr. OLEAN — Donald L. Thierman Sr., 86, passed away peacefully Friday (June 13, 2025) at The Pines of Olean. Born Aug. 14, 1938, in...
Local News, News
June 17, 2025
WELLSVILLE — Nearly 300 people weren't deterred by huge trucks and damp weather for Wellsville's No Kings demonstration on Saturday. The advertised ev...
Commentary, Opinion
June 17, 2025
Earlier this year, I read someone’s post online that said whenever she felt tempted to complain about everything that’s wrong with the world, instead,...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, Press Releases
June 17, 2025
SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Public Library will kick off its Summer Reading Program, “Color Our World,” with a mini carnival Saturday, June 28 from 11 a...
