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, ...
May 01, 2021
From his end-of-season press conference, when he lamented the Bills’ inability to generate persistent pressure on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes i...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 29, 2021
The fishing was quite good this year, the weather fairly cooperative and my early mornings were spent in pursuit of the wily trout. On occasion as I s...
College Sports, Columns, Golf, ...
Apr 29, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Ryan Swanson was admittedly hesitant about scheduling this match. His St. Bonaventure golf team, after all, had played in a tw...
College Sports, Columns, Golf, ...
Apr 28, 2021
OLEAN, N.Y. – On their way back from the Coaches vs. Cancer golf outing last year at Orchard Park’s Harvest Hill, Bartlett Country Club president Fran...
Basketball, Big 30, Columns, ...
Apr 27, 2021
They’d both entered the season with an unfinished matter on the mind, with aspirations of completing a journey that had begun years before. And, in th...
Columns, Local Sports, Sports
Apr 24, 2021
For nearly four decades, McKean County Raceway has been run – on and off – by a string of six different individuals or groups with varying degrees of ...
College Sports, Columns, High School, ...
Apr 23, 2021
An update on the Section 6 high school wrestling season and notes on former Big 30 standouts Marina Miketish (Olean) and Connor Alfieri (Smethport): F...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 22, 2021
Beautiful bands of pink and gold streaked the eastern sky — the hills still black bulwarks against the coming dawn. As I waited a few minutes, several...
Columns, High School, Local Sports, ...
Apr 22, 2021
It likely wasn’t the state tournament they had grown up dreaming about. They traded Albany’s 17,000-seat Times Union Center for a sports complex at Ma...
Columns, High School, Local Sports, ...
Apr 21, 2021
My oldest granddaughter is an 18-year-old senior at a school in south-central North Carolina. It was supposed to be a special time with the countdown ...
Columns, Local Sports, Soccer, ...
Apr 20, 2021
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series previewing the Olean 1854 FC men’s amateur soccer team’s upcoming season. Today: A look at Ole...
Columns, Local Sports, Soccer, ...
Apr 17, 2021
(Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series previewing the Olean 1854 FC men’s amateur soccer team’s upcoming season. Today: Olean’s excite...
Columns, Football, Local Sports, ...
Apr 16, 2021
This could get ugly. When Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz announced Tuesday that Bills and Sabres fans could attend Highmark Stadium and KeyBank ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 15, 2021
I’d slept in yesterday morning for a change for I had many things to do: Genealogy research, pay bills, clean up the house, restock the fishing vest a...
Columns, Golf, Pro, ...
Apr 12, 2021
To be sure, after 7 o’clock Saturday night, the refrain was persistent: “It’s Matsuyama’s Masters to lose.” There was Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama with a ...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 08, 2021
With the Pennsylvania trout season opening early this year, I don’t care for it falling on Easter weekend as it conflicts with so many family function...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 08, 2021
I’m appreciating the sights and sounds of springtime this year — the peepers in the roadside ditches, the morning calls of the cardinals, seeing the d...
Columns, Local Sports, Sports
Apr 03, 2021
Some observations from four different sports: — Pro football. With the NFL verifying that 2021 will feature a 17-game season, the schedule-tweaking wi...
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
Apr 03, 2021
With trout season fast approaching, I was taking all the precautions possible by readying all my trout fishing tackle. New line, oil the reels, check ...
Columns, Local Sports, Sports
Apr 02, 2021
I’ve never liked “shock jock” radio, those morning shows with multiple hosts spending four hours, with minimal rock music, trying to be funny, at the ...
Local News
December 30, 2025
Winter visits Wolf Run Marina on the Allegheny Reservoir. The boats and docks are safely ashore while the empty bay shimmers with cold sunlight.
Crime, Local News
December 30, 2025
An Erie attorney who has practiced in McKean and Warren counties has been sanctioned by the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A...
Crime, Local News
December 30, 2025
SMETHPORT — All charges against Matthew Luke for allegedly shooting into an occupied vehicle were bound to court at a hearing Tuesday before District ...
December 30, 2025
BELLEFONTE — U.S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson issued a 2025 Year in Review, providing a snapshot of the work he focused on in Pennsylvania and Washington...
Crime, Local News
December 30, 2025
The Lewis Run man jailed on $3 million bail for more than 450 felonies relating to rape and child pornography has petitioned McKean County Court for a...
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
December 30, 2025
A Massachusetts man who had already been evicted from 12 apartments for refusing to pay rent received $23,000 in taxpayer-funded rental assistance in ...
