Bolivar, NY

A Kill Buck man was arrested for burglary in Olean. According to the Olean Police, 28-year-old Kenneth L. Connors was arrested after a call about a man illegally entering a home on the 200 block of N. 4th Street around yesterday morning. An officer in the immediate area responded and allegedly found Conners inside the home attempting to steal property.

Two area residents have graduated from the Police Academy and will soon be joining the force. Chief Mike Ward attended the ceremony at MercyHurst University Act 120 Police Academy, when cadets Tyler Blair and Shawn LaBadie were among those graduating from the academy, and handed the two cadets their certificates.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is alerting area drivers that roadwork on a section of Route 219 will make northbound lane restrictions necessary. Starting Monday, June 27, crews will be working on Route 219 from just south of Owens Way to Bolivar Drive. When work starts on Monday, motorists will encounter lane closures for northbound traffic—limiting northbound travel to one lane. The lane restrictions will be in effect 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. Motorists will need to be alert for signage and traffic devices related to the lane closures. As northbound work progresses and concludes over the summer, work activity will switch to the southbound lanes. PennDOT will issue a project update prior to that change.

A national retailer specializing in home, farm and outdoor merchandise will open a store in the Village of Wellsville next year after buying the old Kmart building vacated four years ago. Minnesota-based Runnings said it plans to open a store in the abandoned 94,000 square-foot space at the Riverwalk Plaza after reaching an agreement with the L.C. Whitford Company to buy the building. ...

WELLSVILLE, NY (WKBW-TV) — As Wellsville's iconic Texas Hot restaurant get's ready to celebrate the century mark, Jim Raptis sums it up like this "We've been here a hundred years so something must be right." Jim's dad George and George's second cousin Jim Rigas decided that Wellsville would be...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Two top-prize winning Take 5 lottery tickets were sold in Western New York on Wednesday. According to the New York Lottery, the winning tickets were sold in Tonawanda and Bolivar. The first ticket was sold at Bolivar Foodland, located at 455 Main Street in Bolivar. The...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A couple of western New Yorkers are going to end up a lot richer once their lottery tickets are turned in. Two top prize-winning Take 5 tickets were recently sold in the region; one in Bolivar and the other in Buffalo. Each was for the June 8 evening drawing.

Winning tickets were sold at Bolivar Foodland on Main Street in Bolivar and at the Speedway on Kenmore Avenue in Buffalo.