County leadership will convene this week with four committee meetings starting with a 1:00pm Public Works meeting. That meeting will be dominated by the Highway Department’s business, who have personnel […]

The Ly Kesse Campaign for Allegany County Legislature CANASERAGA — The Allegany County Democratic Committee formally endorsed the candidacy of Ly Kesse July 14th in her 2021 run for a […]

What’s it worth to you? Your time, I mean. I keep hearing “nobody wants to work. Just happy sitting at home collecting money from the government to do nothing.”   The […]

From the Allegany County Department of Health, 8/2/21 As of July 27, 2021 Allegany County has a vaccination rate of 38.3%. The overall vaccination rate in the United States is […]

Where does the housing justice movement go from here? From Cea Weaver / July 30 / NYSFocus.com Eighteen months ago, COVID-19 forced millions of people to reckon with a long-standing crisis of […]

Born in Wellsville, NY on January 8, 1956 the son of John and Annette Gianas who predeceased him. He resided in Wellsville until he graduated high school in 1974 as […]

Off the Wagon continues to roll through the summer with more shows in the coming weeks.   The band – “Off the Wagon” plays a wide variety of types of music […]

Immaculate Conception Church and School are proud that the FUN FAIR IS BACK!! This year the event is only a one day affair, which falls on Patriots Day, September 11th, […]

The collective, “here we go again,” seems to be echoing louder and louder. Urban areas in New York are on edge and official statements from government and medical leadership sounds […]

Dr. Walter (Władysław) A. Orlowski, age 84, of Scio, NY, passed away peacefully on July 27, 2021 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester following a brief illness. He was born […]

From the Editor, 7/30/21 When you read about the days of the first “white” settlers in Allegany County, some amazing details emerge about life in the early 1800’s, just after […]

Michael T. Baldwin Reports 7/30/21, Photo Courtesy RisingApple.com Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation (S.5363/A.5156) designating baseball as the official sport of the state of New York. This bill […]

From Chuck Wiser, 7/30/21   I write the words to share what my eyes see and my heart feels…. At the beginning of one of my early lectures for the […]