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Four local hairstylists donated their time and worked as a team Tuesday, Aug. 29 to give free back-to-school haircuts to area children. The women did ...

GOWANDA — A school resource officer’s check on a suspicious vehicle in the Gowanda Middle-High School parking lot led to the discovery of heroin, coca...

We’re more than eight months into publishing the The Gowanda Press, and it’s been a joy covering Gowanda and the surrounding area since late August. I...

Volunteers from several Salamanca area organizations gather Saturday morning at Jefferson Street Park for the city’s inaugural “Clean it up, Fix it up...

The “Allegany Masters Lacrosse” (OHI:YO’) team of Kerry John, David Isaac, Todd Rozler, Arnie Cooper, Greg Miller, and Randy White pose before they br...

Firefighter David Brown (left) breaks out the back window with a fire ax while firefighter Brian Pitts (right) uses another piece of emergency equipme...

Elise Lincoln, 2, paints a T-shirt for the sun painting activity at the Red House Administration Building as part of Allegany State Park’s Earth and A...

The University of Rochester Yellow Jackets, a men’s a cappella group formed in 1956, performed Friday for the Salamanca schools and community members ...

I was born in 1934 in England, and have lived through some dark times. Watching the news, I feel like this might be one of those times. So it’s nice t...

EAST OTTO — It’s been like clockwork for more than 50 years. Several times a month — and often once a week — an envelope arrives at The Salamanca Pres...

SALAMANCA — Nelson Beard, a sixth grade teacher at Seneca Elementary School in the Salamanca school district, passed away suddenly over the weekend. T...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Four days after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the National Fuel Gas Northern Access Pipeline Project, a state De...

(The following article was printed in the first edition of the Cattaraugus Republican on Feb. 7, 1867.) It is proper that in the initial number of the...

On a mild spring day about six years ago, I walked back to our office after a visit to the Salamanca Area Historical Society Museum and began to diges...

Susan and Mitchell Bence of Watseka, Ill., are in Washington, D.C., for President Donald J. Trump's Inauguration Week. They sent some photos of events...

Patrons of Billy Martin’s Cole All-Star Circus have their picture taken with the exotic snake during intermission Thursday evening at the Allegany Com...

Rob Carpenter (right), a member of the Hughes-Skiba Post #535 American Legion Riders, hands a gift bag to veteran Eugene Bowen at Absolut Care of Sala...

Breianna Biscut (right) stands alongside Santa and Dancer the reindeer in front of the Salamanca Area Historical Society Museum on Main Street in Sala...