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, Outdoors
Oct 14, 2021
In many cases, hunting and fishing are more about perseverance than filling the freezer. Many days have limited action and little success; things don’...
Columns, Football, Pro, ...
Oct 12, 2021
There was a power shift in the American Football Conference on a stormy Sunday night in Kansas City. Oh, the Bills beating the Chiefs on their home fi...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Oct 07, 2021
Hunting with a bow or compound puts an extra amount of responsibility on the hunter. Even a well hit deer can be devilishly hard to find. Many times, ...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Sep 28, 2021
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — For Bills fans it was nothing more complicated than they had to see it to be convinced. After two sub-standard performances they ...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Sep 20, 2021
Is it possible a team can win by five touchdowns and not play its best game? Is it reasonable to be critical of a team that wins 35-0 … on the road? W...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Sep 16, 2021
There are times we love to recall, days so special, when everything comes together like a well written play, perfect and unblemished. In the hunting w...
Columns, Football, High School, ...
Sep 14, 2021
SMETHPORT — Last year, Smethport left no doubt over who ruled the District 9 Small School North. Quarterback Noah Lent and company have followed last ...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Sep 14, 2021
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Let’s make this perfectly clear at the outset. There’s no insult in losing to the Steelers … even in your own building. After all...
Columns, Football, Local Sports
Sep 10, 2021
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Major Matthew Blue was understandably hesitant. Blue, of the United States Airforce, had already seized his “once in a lifetime” ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Sep 09, 2021
Archery hunting is rushing upon us and will be here before you can say, “Is it really this Saturday? You’re kidding!” Time is flying by, as it always ...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Sep 01, 2021
There have been times — more than a few — over the franchise’s 61 years, that it seemed the Bills roster could have been cut to the regular-season lim...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Aug 23, 2021
So you wonder, are the Bills really that good … the Bears that bad … or a little of both? What’s certain is that after Buffalo routed Chicago, 41-15, ...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Aug 13, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — As the youngest of four boys, Kyle Lofton didn’t exactly have it easy growing up. His older brothers, he remembered, used to “...
Columns, Football, High School, ...
Aug 09, 2021
The potential for irony was hard to ignore, but we’ll get to that. After his New York team fell, 35-0, to Pennsylvania in Saturday night’s 47th annual...
Columns, High School, Local Sports, ...
Jul 26, 2021
OLEAN, N.Y. — If there was any question about the viability of the New York-Pennsylvania Corporate Cup Soccer Showcase, it was answered last August wh...
Basketball, College Sports, Columns, ...
Jul 21, 2021
OLEAN, N.Y. — The clock struck noon on an otherwise uneventful Thursday, July 1. And just like that, priorities and perspectives began to shift dramat...
Columns, Local Sports
Jul 16, 2021
Michael Miller has taught martial arts locally for over two decades. The former amateur boxer has hosted an array of classes since opening Miller’s Do...
Columns, Local Sports
Jul 15, 2021
When the announcement came, my thoughts went to Martha Ruether. The paralympic swimmer from Allegany, who qualified for the pandemic-delayed 2020 Olym...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
Jul 15, 2021
I’m often asked why I love to hunt and fish by those who don’t. They feel my passion, sense a deeper meaning, but can’t quite put their finger on the ...
Baseball, Columns, Local Sports
Jul 14, 2021
He signed with the New York Yankees in 1951, spending his first professional season, at age 19, with the club’s Class D affiliate in … Olean, N.Y. And...
Lifestyles
December 30, 2025
Dear Heloise: I sympathize to some extent with the writer in a recent column of yours lamented how doctor's offices will say the appointment is at 10 ...
Round the Square
December 30, 2025
TIME: Have some downtime over the holidays? Maybe it's time to learn something. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology — MIT — has a website devote...
Lifestyles
December 30, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I am a very overweight woman, but down 50 pounds from my top weight and continuing at a consistent, but slow, rate to lose. My A1C is now d...
Local Sports, Sports
December 29, 2025
ALLEGANY — In the closest matchup of the opening day of the Joe DeCerbo Holiday (IAABO) Showcase, the Salamanca girls basketball team could not hold o...
Nation & World
December 29, 2025
The flu is spreading in New York state in record numbers, according to the state Health Department. “We are seeing the highest number of flu cases eve...
PA State News
December 29, 2025
(TNS) — Mary Jo Armstrong and her ex-husband, William, didn't exactly remarry for love. They remarried for health insurance. After 18 years of marriag...
