The Twin Tiers are the collective counties that lie on the New York–Pennsylvania border on either side of the 42nd parallel north . The region is predominantly rural and contains many small towns.
7-561: The Olean Times Herald is a daily newspaper serving the western Twin Tiers region, based in Olean, New York . 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
14-616: Is also known as the Pennsylvania Wilds . Erie County, Pennsylvania , and Warren County, Pennsylvania , are almost never considered part of the Twin Tiers, though portions of Warren County are occasionally associated with the rest of the region. The region was historically a disputed territory in the history of the United States prior to its founding. The Northern Tier was claimed by Pennsylvania Colony and Connecticut Colony , while
21-654: Is the flagship of Bradford Publishing's newspaper stable, which includes The Bradford Era (a morning newspaper that mostly serves Pennsylvania), the Salamanca Press (a weekly paper serving Central and Western Cattaraugus County), the Ellicottville Times (a free weekly), and the Fredonia, Gowanda/Silver Creek and Salamanca Pennysavers . The Thomson Corporation acquired the Olean Times Herald in 1988; they sold
28-569: The Southern Tier region in the state of New York and the Northern Tier region in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania . The "Northern" and "Southern" designations are relative to the states in which they are located, not relative to each other. The Twin Tiers region is usually defined as including these counties: McKean, Potter, and (less often) Cameron Counties refer to themselves as part of
35-601: The Bradford Publishing papers were placed behind a soft paywall . On May 15, 2023, the Monday edition began publishing in a digital-only format. With this change, the print edition now publishes five days per week (Tuesday to Saturday). This article about a New York newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Twin Tiers Separately, the two halves of the Twin Tiers region are known as
42-551: The Twin Tiers, but almost never consider themselves part of the Northern Tier, instead going by the name "Northern Pennsylvania". Significant ambiguity often exists in regions: for instance, the western part of the region (McKean and Potter Counties) often associate themselves with St. Marys , a city larger than any city in that area, but in Elk County , just south of what is considered "Northern Tier" by any standard. This broader area
49-483: The paper, along with 11 other papers, to the American Publishing Company (later Hollinger International ) 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,
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