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September 27, 2025
SALAMANCA — A Salamanca man was being held for the murder of another person in the city, Salamanca police reported Saturday. Andrew C. Skye, 35, of 31...
Movie Reviews
Feb 21, 2024
And we thought “Venom” and “Morbius” were bad. To be fair, they are bad, but not like this — not like “Madame Web.” Since the original “Spider-Man” tr...
Movie Reviews
Feb 14, 2024
We’re a little late to the game, but here’s the thing about Christmas movies: the holidays aren’t always feel-good and idyllic with everything going a...
Movie Reviews
Jan 24, 2024
One of my favorite specific subgenres of movies is those near-future science-fiction stories that are meant to be fairly realistic and based on some s...
Movie Reviews
Jan 17, 2024
People, like onions and ogres, have layers. You’re a different person with your family than at work or at the store. Not everyone knows exactly what y...
Movie Reviews
Jan 10, 2024
There’s nothing quite as exciting – or anxiety-inducing – as a surprise sequel to a movie that came out decades before, especially if the original fil...
Movie Reviews
Jan 03, 2024
Adaptations are almost always impossible to pull off. Plenty of TV shows, movies and stage productions are based on books, comics and earlier written ...
Movie Reviews
Dec 20, 2023
The worlds of author Roald Dahl have been entertaining and terrifying children for generations. With a seemingly endless imagination and dry, dark Bri...
Movie Reviews
Dec 13, 2023
When discussing the long-running movie franchises that have had a huge impact on cinema — your “James Bond,” your “Star Wars,” your comic book adaptat...
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Dec 12, 2023
SALAMANCA — Celebrate the holiday with country music superstar Sara Evans at 7 p.m. Saturday when she brings her “Go Tell It On The Mountain” Christma...
Movie Reviews
Nov 29, 2023
I love movies for a lot of reasons, but getting to spend a couple of hours transported to a world or a lifestyle outside my own is a big one. Visiting...
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Nov 24, 2023
SALAMANCA — A celebrated author familiar with Haudenosaunee life and culture recently visited students at Salamanca High School to share her experienc...
Movie Reviews
Nov 22, 2023
Of all the movie series with the long line of sequels, prequels, re-boots and re-imaginings in recent years, the one I last expected to see a prequel ...
Movie Reviews
Nov 08, 2023
The holidays are just around the corner, and along with plenty of family gatherings and community events to celebrate the season, the late fall and ea...
Movie Reviews
Nov 01, 2023
Introducing kids to horror movies can be such a slippery slope. Of course you shouldn’t show “The Exorcist” to a 10-year-old, but it’s usually around ...
Movie Reviews
Oct 25, 2023
“They don’t make ‘em like they used to,” is something people have been saying for decades, and yeah, of course movies aren’t made the same way in 2023...
Movie Reviews
Oct 18, 2023
A gimmick can often make or break a movie’s success, especially if that gimmick takes away from the real heart of whatever the filmmakers are trying t...
Movie Reviews
Oct 11, 2023
Fifty years ago this year, one of the greatest movies of the 1970s was released, terrifying audiences with depictions of horror that the world had nev...
Movie Reviews
Oct 04, 2023
In the never-ending parade of adaptations of established works and all the sequels, prequels, remakes, re-imaginings, reboots and spin-offs that follo...
Allegany State Park News, Featured, Local News, ...
October 30, 2025
RED HOUSE — The holidays are fast approaching, and there's no better way to get into the spirit than by spending some time in Allegany State Park. Joi...
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October 30, 2025
150 Years Nov. 4, 1875: A severe thunderstorm occurred in this vicinity last Friday (Oct. 29), and the denizens of West Salamanca were very much excit...
Opinion
October 30, 2025
Halloween memories Seeing all the different activities happening this week to celebrate the Halloween spirit has had me reminiscing about all the wond...
Opinion
The NBA Is Addicted to Gambling, and the Bill’s Come Due
October 30, 2025
Better not bet The recent arrests of Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups as part of federal gambling investigations lay bare a deep contradiction at the...
