The ''Olean Times Herald'' is a daily newspaper serving the western

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region, based in

Olean, New York Olean ( ) is a city in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. Olean is the largest city in Cattaraugus County and serves as its financial, business, transportation and entertainment center. It is one of the principal cities of the Southern ...

. The afternoon newspaper, one of the few remaining afternoon papers in the nation, is published by Bradford Publishing and is published six days each week - Monday thru Friday, with a special “Weekend Edition” delivered on Saturday mornings. It does not publish on Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. It is the flagship of Bradford Publishing's newspaper stable, which includes

The Bradford Era The Bradford Era is a newspaper published Monday - Saturday serving McKean county in Pennsylvania. The American Newspapers Representatives database lists the Bradford Era's daily paid circulation as 13,000 and its unpaid circulation as 2,500. Jim Ec ...

(a morning newspaper that mostly serves Pennsylvania), the

Salamanca Press The ''Salamanca Press'' is a newspaper serving Cattaraugus County, New York. Based in the city of Salamanca, the paper is owned by Bradford Publishing, which also publishes the Bradford Era and the Olean Times Herald. The newspaper focuses on the ...

(a weekly paper serving Central and Western Cattaraugus County), the Ellicottville Times (a free weekly), and the Fredonia, Gowanda/Silver Creek and Salamanca

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acquired the ''Olean Times Herald'' in 1988; they sold the paper, along with 11 other papers, to the American Publishing Company (later

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) in 1995. Hollinger sold off most of its small papers in 1999, the ''Olean Times Herald'' went to Bradford Publishing. Bradford Publishing Co. is now owned by Community Media Group. In 2017, Bradford Publishing Co. announced that they had reduced five positions at the ''Olean Times Herald''. In July 2018, the Bradford Publishing papers were placed behind a soft

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