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...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Jan 14, 2023
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — It began well before the regular season started. Las Vegas anointed Buffalo as the favorite to win the Super Bowl. Not the defend...
Columns, Local Sports
Jan 13, 2023
A lot of times in sports, a team can be downright dominant in the regular season but, in the postseason, struggle to finish the mission. Whether it co...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jan 12, 2023
Some memories never fade but remain clear and vibrant over the years. Many of these involve rites of passage. For girls this is first physical, then s...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Jan 10, 2023
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Most assessments of Bills general manager Brandon Beane, despite the team’s recent success, view him as an “average” drafter over...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Jan 09, 2023
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Now we know. For the third time this season, the Bills and Dolphins will meet, but in this one, with everything at stake … advanc...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Jan 07, 2023
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Bills have never … ever had a season finale quite like this one. When Buffalo hosts New England tomorrow afternoon at Highmar...
Columns, Local Sports
Jan 05, 2023
Monday’s horrific incident involving Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin again reminded the sports world of the physical risk taken by playing many of o...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Jan 04, 2023
Back in the early 1990s when the Bills made it to four straight Super Bowls, an absurd scenario was replicated each year and it became a standing joke...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Dec 31, 2022
It’s become a cliche that late regular-season NFL meetings between contenders are “playoff games.” Sometimes it’s true … sometimes not. But come Monda...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Dec 29, 2022
I can always tell a die-hard hunter when I see someone carrying a flintlock. You immediately know they’re more interested in the hunt than harvesting ...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Dec 27, 2022
Well, for at least one game, the Bills answered two of their season-long criticisms in emphatic fashion. In their 35-13 victory over the Bears, Saturd...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Dec 23, 2022
One of the penalties of joining the National Football League’s elite teams is that their schedules take on a dramatically-altered look. And the Bills ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Dec 22, 2022
Time is a river, which is fixed on this earth in a continuous forward motion. But the future is firmly fixed into our past and directs and guides that...
Columns, Local Sports
Dec 20, 2022
A week ago, a friend of mine was fired from his jobs … all three of them … on the same day. What happened to Jerry Sullivan, and why, quickly became a...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Dec 19, 2022
ORCHARD PARK — Some takes on the Bills’ dramatic 32-29 victory over Miami on Tyler Bass’ 25-yard field goal as time expired on Saturday night at Highm...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Dec 17, 2022
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — It was a bad night for the students to be on break. The Reilly Center’s reputation as a pit in college basketball isn’t about ...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Dec 16, 2022
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — There’s this perception that “every year the Bills play at Miami in the searing heat of the late summer and every year the Dolphi...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Dec 15, 2022
With rifle season ending Saturday, it was time to spend some time at camp. Accordingly, Jim Acker and I met up Thursday and, after building a fire in ...
Columns, Football, Local Sports
Dec 15, 2022
Wherever Mike Leach went, offensive football changed. Leach made a career out of revolutionizing college offenses. As he’d jump states, however, his i...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Dec 14, 2022
The reception to even just the mention of their names might well be mixed. That’s because, at this point, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball fan bas...
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...
