Allegany News

BIRD REPORTS: When Harold and Sara Whitney were shoveling a path in the snow Monday they were startled by an unexpected sound: Their dogs flushed a woodcock.

Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of a fire that gutted the recently re-opened Echo Lanes Bowling center late Friday night.

The Cattaraugus County Legislature has announced city and town tax rates in support of the recently adopted $203.9 million spending plan for 2009.

Cattaraugus County legislators voted without fanfare Wednesday to adopt a $203.9 million spending plan for 2009, making only one bookkeeping adjustment that had no effect on the $44,788,000 tax levy.

You've heard of Dasher and Dancer and Donner and Blitzen. Now meet a new Christmas critter - Nutty O'St. Nick.

Indictments against three men have been reported by a Cattaraugus County grand jury, one of them charging an Allegany man with identity theft.

Sebas-tian Baggiano of Jamestown and John Camus of Allegany have been appointed to the Jamestown Community College Foundation board of directors.

LOOK UP: Shirley States writes us this past Monday, "Just wanted to report that we spotted a bald eagle this AM in a tree not far from the Allegheny River just east of Port Allegany borough on Route 6." We're ...

Toys For Tots is starting its 19th year in the Olean area. Organizer Reggie Dallaire of Allegany, said he thinks this will be a oeone of the toughest years with the economy being what it is.a Mr.

When Chronic Wasting Disease struck the Wisconsin deer herd with a vengeance in 2002, New York officials kept a watchful eye for the disease in our deer herd.

An Allegany resident has been sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court to prison for an assault at an Allegany motel last summer.

The members of a Kill Buck family are trying to rebuild their lives after a fire destroyed their home Nov.

Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts in the Five Rivers Council will pick up their Scouting for Food bags Saturday.

The request for an extra $500,000 for Jamestown Community College's proposed expansion of its Olean Campus is up in the air as Cattaraugus County legislators get to work reviewing the tentative 2009 budget this ...

Southern Tier voters gave incumbent Assemblyman Republican Joseph Giglio a vote of approval Tuesday by re-electing him over Democrat Pat Eaton.

Catharine Young will be the Southern Tiera s representative on the New York State Senate for at least two more years as she blew out Fredonia-based Democrat Christopher Schaeffer Tuesday, 75,971 votes to ...

Weatherization, an aging population and vacant buildings are the main housing issues facing Erie, Niagara, Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties, according to a regional report on housing needs.

Three people were transported to Bradford Regional Medical Center on Sunday for smoke inhalation after a wood stove fire destroyed their residence.

With the merger of the Chautauqua and Mayville Central School systems, there is a lot of work to be done before the 1996-97 academic year begins in September.

The application process for the wind development project in the town of Allegany took another step forward at Wednesday eveninga s Town Planning Board meeting, despite some vocal contention from residents who ...