The mandate requiring all healthcare workers to be vaccinated takes effect Monday, 9/27 In preparation for Monday’s vaccination deadline, Governor Kathy Hochul today released a comprehensive plan to address preventable staffing shortages in hospitals and other health care facilities statewide. “We are still in a battle against COVID to protect our loved ones, and we need to fight with […]

By Andrew Harris, 9/25/21 Despite the controversy over the bid process, Root Trucking and Logging started work today on the erosion that is threatening a Dyke Creek levy, on the east side of Wellsville. The work, being done in tandem by a large bulldozer and excavator, intends to stop the erosion on the north side […]

Staff Reports, 9/25/21, Image depicts recent shootings in Elmira NY Elmira Chaos Continues Elmira NY has been in the news quite often this year, and most of the events making headlines are bad news. WETM, aka Mytwintiers.com, has reporting today that includes a vicious attack on a corrections officer, meth related crime, and this morning […]

By Casey Jones, Editor of Allegany Hope Community News, 9/24/21 BREAKING – EXCLUSIVE: Sheriff Ricky L. Whitney declared today that “(p)eople in Allegany County need to get vaccinated” as the Allegany County Sheriff’s Office NY copes with a COVID-19 outbreak at the jail which came in from outside the facility and currently has infected a tenth of […]

By Andrew Harris, 9/24/21 If the first three weeks of the school year are any indication of what lies ahead; students, parents, teachers, and school administrators are in for a rough ride. After the joys of parenting and schooling last year, it seems that our education system was not taking notes and planning for this […]

James Leroy Cline (Barney) went to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, September 18, 2021. Born January 2, 1955 in Cuba, NY to Norman Cline and Mabel Powell. James grew up in Belmont and since he was old enough to hold a wrench helped his Dad in the family business – Cline’s Garage […]

From Jo Fenske, 9/24/21 I spent a great deal and time and effort to obtain my Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) designation while working for the Village of Wellsville. It was intense. I have to agree with LC Whitford’s assessment. The Town may have saved money in the immediate but may cost residents of Wellsville money […]

The Monday Club of Wellsville, which helps support the David A. Howe Library, welcomed members back for its 129th year with a buffet luncheon at the Wellsville Country Club on September 13. The first fall meeting in the Library’s Monday Club room was on Monday the 20th, and featured speaker Barry Dunne, a past president […]

Jones Memorial Hospital welcomes these providers to the hospital’s Emergency Department. Dr. Stephen Doyle, MD, comes to Jones from Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware, a three-hospital system specializing in trauma care and emergency medicine. A graduate of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Dr. Doyle is a member of the […]

Alice J. “Jean” McLaughlin, 86, passed away on Tuesday (September 21, 2021) at Wellsville Manor Care Center following a lengthy illness. Mrs. McLaughlin was born on May 18, 1935 in Lafayette, Pa. to Stanley D. and Edna L. (Hilsinger) Potter. She worked for many years as a nursing aide for Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville. […]