Hoodie Hoo: How it began and how it got to Shongo
By KATHRYN ROSS news@oleantimesherald.com 
February 16, 2026
SHONGO — Gold, Pa. is 150 miles from Lebanon, Pa., but that didn’t stop a tradition nurtured there to make the journey nothwest to become a happy holi...
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Bonnies rally falls short as Duquesne delivers late knockout
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
By By HENRY BUCHAN, Olean Times Herald 
February 15, 2026
ST. BONAVENTURE — With 14 seconds left and with a two point lead, Duquesne junior Jimmie Williams pulled up from 29 feet late in the shot clock, hit nothing but net, and erased the Bonnies’ chance at an 18 point comeback. In the 78-73 loss, Bonnies’ coach Mark Schmidt felt his team shot themselves i...
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Bonnies score 64-53 road win at VCU
Basketball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
February 14, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. - The St. Bonaventure University women's basketball team scored a 64-53 road win at VCU Saturday evening to cap off a pair of games in V...
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Myers, Benjamin power Ellicottville past North Collins
Basketball, Local Sports, Sports
February 13, 2026
Salamanca tops Southwestern for Senior Night win ELLICOTTVILLE — A.J. Myers collected 20 points, three assists and three steals and Rylan Benjamin tot...
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Bridging generations on the mat
Local Sports, Sports
By HENRY BUCHAN, Olean Times Herald 
February 13, 2026
OLEAN — Rich Morton knows wrestling history. He competed at Ithaca College in the late 1970s and spent 41 years as coach for Salamanca’s wrestling tea...
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Local & Social
CA BOCES names Olean honor rolls for 2nd quarter
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, High School, ...
Feb 15, 2026
OLEAN — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES named its Career and Technical Education High Honor and Honor rolls for the second quarter of the 2025-26 academic ...
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CA BOCES names Belmont honor rolls for 2nd quarter
Allegany County News, High School, Local News, ...
Feb 15, 2026
BELMONT — Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES named its Career and Technical Education High Honor and Honor rolls for the second quarter of the 2025-26 academi...
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Salamanca students attend Youth Leadership Forum in Albany
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News, ...
By DEB EVERTS news@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 14, 2026
SALAMANCA — Ten student leaders from the Salamanca City Central School District traveled to Albany to attend this year’s New York State Youth Leadersh...
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Flanigan’s legacy lives on at new Salamanca ice pond facilities
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
KELLEN M. QUIGLEY kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 13, 2026
SALAMANCA — For over 100 years, tens of thousands of Salamanca youth learned to stake, played pick-up hockey games and competed in speed-skating races...
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Police reports 2/13/26
Crime, Local News
Feb 13, 2026
Olean Police Friday, 9:12 a.m. , Sean D. Dewitt, 33, of Franklinville, was charged with petit larceny, a class A misdemeanor. Dewitt was released with...
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Crime and Courts
Police reports 2/12/26
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Crime, ...
Feb 13, 2026
Olean Police Wednesday, 10:52 a.m. , no injuries were reported following a two-vehicle accident on Main Street. A vehicle operated by Caelyn N. Mett, ...
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Police reports 2/11/26
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Crime, ...
Feb 11, 2026
Olean Police Monday, 12:50 p.m. , no injuries were reported following a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of North Union and East State streets...
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Police reports 1/21/26
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Crime, ...
January 21, 2026
Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office OLEAN — John R. Roulo, 42, of Olean, was arrested at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on a violation of probation warrant issued ...
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Who’s to blame for an unfair US economy?
Commentary, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
February 16, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Billionaires are now Public Enemy No. 1 in America. Majorities of voters, in both parties, think the gap between the rich and poor is...
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GOP strategist: MAGA meltdowns will cost the election
Commentary, Opinion
By MATT WYLIE The Charlotte Observer 
February 15, 2026
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TNS) — Attorney General Pam Bondi took one of the most radioactive political issues in the country — the Epstein files — and detonate...
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Our era really is like the Civil War in one key way
Commentary, Opinion
By MATT K. LEWIS Los Angeles Times/TNS 
February 13, 2026
We’re one year in, and President Donald Trump’s second term has already produced a parade of problematic historical analogies. Critics have invoked Ki...
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