By DONOVAN MOFFAT
What started out as the season of hope has made a turn for another depressing year for Buffalo Bills fans.
Last season, the Bills finished the season at 9-7 under first-year head coach Sean McDermott. The Bills would make the playoffs thanks to a Week 17 win against its AFC East division foes, the Miami Dolphins, and a last-second touchdown pass from Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy ...
By DAVID MALCHAK
I am a New York Football Giants fan. Like many New-York-City-area teams, most people either hate them or love them. There is no in between.
Many folks from Western New York have strong ties to the Buffalo Bills and have developed a dislike for the Giants due to Super Bowl XXV when Buffalo lost the game 20-19 after a missed last-second field goal, known for going wide right by Scott ...
By DOMINIC LOVALLO
We live in a time where the demand is “more now.” We want more of the things we like, and we want them as soon as possible.
This can be seen clearly in the amount of shows the internet streaming service Netflix released in the past year: well over 150 different shows, movies, documentaries and comedy specials. In the month of August alone, 47 Netflix original shows and movies ...
SMETHPORT, Pa. -- They work to connect worried families with people in the path of hurricanes after phone service goes down. They might be the ones checking you in during a race or a dice run. If you know one or two, they might be telling you how cool it is to talk to people from all over from that radio-filled corner of their house.
They are amateur radio operators, better known as hams. And ...
OLEAN, NY -- Five organizations that support local children and youth will receive grants this November from the Kaleigh Wilday Endowment Fund at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation.
The grants, totaling $5,000, will be made to remember Kaleigh Wilday and her Nov. 10 birthday, said CRCF Executive Director Karen Niemic Buchheit.
Skip and Greta Wilday established the fund in September ...
By NICHOLAS YOUNGS
PORTVILLE, NY – A whiteboard with dozens of destinations and vehicle numbers written in various colors sits inside the Portville bus garage, ready to be changed at any moment. David Youngs, the transportation supervisor of the Portville and Olean School Districts, knows that before 2 almost every afternoon, he is likely to receive an email changing the entire meticulously planned ...
By KELLY HABERSTROH
OLEAN, NY – When Della Moore walks down the street, she greets everyone she passes and makes sure to ask, “How are you doing?”
From the moment I joined her at the 7-Eleven on a cloudy, cold December morning until we finished making our stops along State and North Union streets, she remained ...
By LUCAS SPERDUTI
OLEAN, NY -- For Justus Elliot, time and pace are essential. As a warehouse selector for Olean Wholesale Grocery Co-Op, most of the 21-year-old’s job calls for efficiency.
“Everything is time-based," Elliot explained. "One hundred percent is the norm, and it’s what we work for every day. If our score is less, then we are moving too slow, and we kick it into ...
By NATHANIAL DISCAVAGE
What began as an attempt to boost her GPA soon turned into a 22-year career for my mom, Ramona Lee Discavage.
On the first day of her freshman year at St. Bonaventure University in 1989, members of the Army ROTC Seneca Battalion helped incoming freshmen move their stuff into their dorm rooms. Afterward, they invited all of the freshmen to a lunch.
“When they described the ...
By CASEY CAYA
Lynn Kemp is nearing 95 and knows he has lived a good life.
“The good Lord has been awful good to me,” recalled the lifelong resident of Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania. “I never refused an order. I tried to be the best soldier I could be. I don’t know what your relationship is with God, but mine is pretty close.”
Born Oct. 29, 1920, Lynn grew up in a home on Turkey ...
By CASEY CAYA
When Steve Appleby asks area students if they know Snoop Dog, Eminem, Kanye West, the Kardashians, Parris Hilton or Miley Cyrus, they answer yes. Then Appleby will ask which of them knows Jason Dunham is, and the students will not have a clue.
Appleby will explain that Jason Dunham was a Marine from Scio, in Allegany County, New York, who was killed in Iraq in 2006 after jumping on a grenade ...
