Kathryn Ross

WELLSVILLE — The 49th annual Great Wellsville Balloon Rally, which got its start in 1975, will launch at 6 p.m. Friday. Brad Thompson, who has helmed the event for the last 16 years, said the rally will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year in 2027. The discrepancy in dates, he noted, is because of the fair-weather event had to completely cancel the festivities a couple of times over the years....

WELLSVILLE — On April 17, part of the old Phuntner car dealership building on Railroad Avenue collapsed. On Monday night, the village board declared that section of the building an unsafe structure making way for demolition. A hearing concerning the collapse took place prior to the regular village board meeting. Those attending were Sherry Jacques, the building owner, and Cory Burrows of M.A.C.E. (Municipal Alliance of Code Enforcement), the village’s...

ANGELICA — The 181st Allegany County Fair will open its gates to the public at 9 a.m. Monday morning — with some 30,000 people expected to visit over the week. Prior to that, at 7 p.m. Sunday evening, there will be a Vesper Service during which a bench to be placed on the fairgrounds, dedicated to an individual or family which has volunteered over the years. The bench will be...

WELLSVILLE — It is only fitting that on this 250th anniversary year of these United States, the first balloon in the air at the 49th Annual Great Wellsville Balloon Rally was red, white and blue. Under a pale blue, smokeless sky, the Rally got started a little earlier than usual at about 6:45 p.m. Within 15 minutes a total of 15 balloons, out of the 30 scheduled to appear, followed...

WELLSVILLE — There may have been only one launch for this year’s Great Wellsville Balloon Rally, but it was a site to behold. All 29 of the registered hot air balloons launched from the Rally site on Friday evening. Stars and Stripes, a red, white, and blue balloon piloted by Brett Endgroff out of Pennsylvania, was the first to hit the sky. Sponsored by the Hahn Homestead, it carried artist...

ANGELICA — This year’s Angelica Heritage Days, Aug. 1-2, marks an ending and a beginning. This is the 57th year of this annual event, which celebrates life in "The Town Where History Lives." The slogan is part of why the Catherine Schuyler Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution chose the community to celebrate the semi-quincentennial of these United States, or America's 250th anniversary. While Heritage Days has been...

WELLSVILLE — For sailors and boaters, The Great Loop runs from Florida up the East Coast to New Jersey, up the Hudson River to the Erie Canal, through the Great Lakes to Michigan and on to the Mississippi River, down to the Gulf of Mexico and back to the east coast of Florida. Such a journey is expected to take two years — although more dedicated mariners have completed it...

WELLSVILLE — Three visitors attended Monday night’s board meeting and queried board members about recent developments. Cassie Hawley wanted to know the status of the house at 60 N. Brooklyn Ave, that has recently been the home of vagrants. According to Chief Tim O’Grady the house has been posted, and no one should be in it. MACE the village’s firm which oversees Code Enforcement, is in the process of declaring...

ANGELICA — The Spirit of '76 was remembered Saturday during Angelica Heritage Days with the dedica... Olean Times Herald Local & Social

Eight strangers gathered to help rescue the tiny orange kitten, who now goes by “Juice.”