Breaking News, Local News
December 26, 2025
Due to the severity of Friday's winter storm, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is temporarily prohibiting trucks heavier than 1...
Basketball, Columns, High School, ...
Mar 25, 2023
Teah Smith isn’t just Jacob Smith’s mother. She’s also his boss at the Olean McDonald’s Restaurant. “I’m never getting away from her,” Jacob, a 17-yea...
Columns, Local Sports
Mar 24, 2023
For Olean native Francis Tommasino, the wait was worth it. Six days ago, Christopher Newport University’s Senior Director of Athletic Communications g...
College Sports, Columns, National Sports, ...
Mar 23, 2023
It hasn’t been a great start to 2023 for the University of Alabama’s marquee athletic programs. It started in mid-January when a Crimson Tide basketba...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Mar 23, 2023
Has it been five years already since I hunted in Africa? Does time really move that fast? I guess it does, but those incredible memories are still cle...
Basketball, Columns, High School, ...
Mar 22, 2023
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — Recalling the end of last season, Kevin Hind had to correct himself. The Cardinals weren’t upset last February. They just “got bea...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Mar 20, 2023
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on the Bills’ salary cap situation and off-season moves. Today, general manager Brandon Beane t...
Columns, High School, Local Sports, ...
Mar 18, 2023
Something was different about the wrestling in Hershey. I figured that might be the case. Western New York is hardly a bad place to grow up for the wr...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Mar 18, 2023
Jaren Holmes and Osun Osunniyi had been in this position before. It was nearly two years to the day, remember, that their St. Bonaventure men’s basket...
Columns, Local Sports
Mar 18, 2023
OLEAN, N.Y. — Rod Biehler remembers it as if it was, well, 40 years ago. A radio personality in the Southern Tier since 1966, Biehler also had an avoc...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Mar 16, 2023
I get a little peeved when I hear someone, especially the younger generation, say they’re bored. There are more things to do out there than you can im...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Mar 16, 2023
It hasn’t been a secret, I’ve never really been a Jim Boeheim fan. There have been just enough prickly interviews with the former Syracuse men’s baske...
Basketball, Columns, High School, ...
Mar 15, 2023
In its rich history, the Archbishop Walsh boys basketball program has produced over a dozen 1,000-point scorers, three Big 30 scoring champions, two B...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Mar 14, 2023
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The projection on the screen said it all: “Jim Crowley” in script, and, in all caps “WELCOME HOME.” Not exactly what you norma...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Mar 13, 2023
For Mark Schmidt, it had to make for a sense of both fulfillment and frustration. The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach had, of course, paced the...
Baseball, Columns, National Sports, ...
Mar 11, 2023
It was a forever moment, encapsulated by a forever snapshot, upon which he’ll always be able to look back with pride. There on the Houston Astros’ web...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Mar 10, 2023
In another year, Mark Schmidt would have ended this night in his hotel room, scouting the following day’s opponent. And if not that, he’d have been sw...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Mar 09, 2023
There are times when something one intends to write … thankfully isn’t written. That happened to me early last month … to my good fortune. St. Bonaven...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Mar 08, 2023
When it comes to National Football League rumors, the best policy is to ignore them, giving the slim possibility that most aren’t close to being true....
Columns, Golf, National Sports, ...
Mar 08, 2023
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The PGA Tour is going to reward the biggest stars with as many as 11 tournaments that have small fields, big money and ...
Basketball, Columns, High School, ...
Mar 07, 2023
It wasn’t the storybook ending the Salamanca boys basketball team envisioned for itself. After making the New York state semifinals in Glens Falls las...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 28, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is comin...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 28, 2025
If President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are so great for the American economy, then why does he have to shell out, as he did this month, $1...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 28, 2025
Last month, Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Pennsylvania's budget into law. While this signatory duty of the governor may appear unceremonious, this year’s b...
Nation & World
December 28, 2025
Dictionaries define things. It’s their job. So when dictionary.com pronounced “6-7” as their 2025 word of the year, you’d think they would have, well,...
Lifestyles
December 28, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My ex-husband and I were best friends. We shared everything — dreams, laughs and struggles. I was convinced we'd grow old together. When he...
Local News
December 27, 2025
SALAMANCA, N.Y. — As 2025 winds to a close, Seneca Resorts & Casinos has plenty of fun ways for guests to send the year out with a blast and welcome t...
