Titus Creek culvert project to close Broad St.
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Titus Creek culvert project to close Broad St.
Kellen Quigley 
July 8, 2025
SALAMANCA — A section of Broad Street in the city of Salamanca is to close between Hancock and Swan streets for the state Department of Transportation...
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Sheriff’s office warns of phone scam
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Sheriff’s office warns of phone scam
Jul 11, 2019
The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office has issued a warning to residents regarding a recent telephone scam. According to police, a person claiming to...
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New K-9 deputized for Sheriff’s patrol
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New K-9 deputized for Sheriff’s patrol
Dec 23, 2018
LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb announced Dec. 17 the deputizing of the office’s new road patrol canine. Nichols, a two-ye...
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Nevada police name Salamanca fatal stabbing suspect
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Nevada police name Salamanca fatal stabbing suspect
Tom Dinki | Special to The Press 
Dec 13, 2018
SALAMANCA — The suspect wanted for a fatal stabbing in the city of Salamanca and currently incarcerated near Las Vegas is 22-year-old Brandon Francis,...
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Salamanca fatal stabbing leaves questions for neighbors
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Salamanca fatal stabbing leaves questions for neighbors
Tom Dinki | Special to The Press 
Dec 12, 2018
SALAMANCA — Neighbors of a city of Salamanca residence where a Buffalo man was reportedly stabbed to death over the weekend expressed shock, sadness a...
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Deputy Leacock named Youth Officer of the Year
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Deputy Leacock named Youth Officer of the Year
Press Release 
Sep 04, 2018
LITTLE VALLEY — Deputy Devine Leacock of the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office was recently chosen as Youth Officer of the Year by the State of New ...
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Pedestrian walking on Route 417 in Kill Buck flown to ECMC
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Pedestrian walking on Route 417 in Kill Buck flown to ECMC
Tom Dinki | Special to The Press 
Apr 07, 2018
KILL BUCK — A male pedestrian was injured when he was struck walking on Route 417 early Friday morning in what was the second serious accident to occu...
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SPCA, sheriff seize 85 pigs in Ashford cruelty probe
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SPCA, sheriff seize 85 pigs in Ashford cruelty probe
RICK MILLER County Reporter 
Jan 20, 2018
ASHFORD — Eighty-five pigs, many severely emaciated, were seized this week from two unheated barns on Folts Road in Ashford. The Cattaraugus County Sh...
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Salamanca mourns loss of town leaders
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Salamanca mourns loss of town leaders
Rich Place, Managing Editor 
Dec 19, 2017
SALAMANCA — The Salamanca community continues to mourn the loss of Mike and Donna Phillips, residents of the town of Salamanca struck and killed Frida...
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Deputies investigate Freedom crash
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Deputies investigate Freedom crash
Tom Dinki | Special to The Press 
Jul 18, 2017
FREEDOM — The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a two-vehicle accident that occurred Sunday afternoon in Freedom and left six peopl...
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Undersheriff worked up through the ranks
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Undersheriff worked up through the ranks
RICK MILLER County Reporter 
Apr 17, 2017
LITTLE VALLEY — Soon after being named juvenile officer in the Salamanca Police Department in 1997, Eric Butler sought advice from the head of the Cat...
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Undersheriff Eric Butler sworn into office
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Undersheriff Eric Butler sworn into office
Press Release 
Mar 29, 2017
LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb announced that former Capt. Eric Butler has been promoted to the office of undersheriff. B...
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Undersheriff Buchhardt to retire after 37 years
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Undersheriff Buchhardt to retire after 37 years
RICK MILLER County Reporter 
Mar 07, 2017
LITTLE VALLEY — Robert Buchhardt always wanted to be a police officer. Now after a lengthy career — including more than 20 years as head of the Cattar...
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Brittany’s Law gets push from sheriffs’ group
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Brittany’s Law gets push from sheriffs’ group
Kelsey Boudin, Special to The Press 
Feb 13, 2017
The New York State Sheriff’s Association recently boosted a yearslong movement to establish a law creating a violent offender registry. The associatio...
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