BREAKING: The National Weather Service (NWS) has posted a WINTER STORM WATCH tonight for late Sunday through Tuesday nights for Cattaraugus and Wyoming counties west which appears to have some potential anticipated impact in Allegany County. An expected snowfall map, posted shortly before 10PM Saturday, is showing five to eight inches of lake effect snow … Read more
State Police in at least three of its Troops in Central New York and the Southern Tier have issued alerts in regard to three suspects who have targeted Walmart customers in an attempt to skim personal information from credit cards. The latest report by troopers comes from the Town of Erwin in Steuben County where, … Read more
Issues of legal marijuana being laced with deadly fentanyl, problems obtaining school bus driver due to applicants being unable to pass drug tests due to marijuana use, community residents being a greater problem than college students in use of drugs, drivers under the influence of marijuana, lack of money to pursue street level drug dealers, … Read more
New York State is making one million free face masks available, including 600,000 to local governments for additional distribution, as air quality concerns continue today as the result of smoke and haze from multiple wildfires moving south from Canada. No information as to availability has been provided at this writing by the Allegany County Office … Read more
Some two dozen Easter movies, shorter videos and series by well-known Christian pastors and authors are being made available for free online viewing for children and families. The selections are part of the year-around free subscription video library being provided to the community by Allegany Hope through RightNow Media @Work, which has more than 20,000 … Read more
Most Allegany County local government officials appeared to be looking for federal money yesterday as their newly-elected Congressman came to town at Belmont. U.S. Representative Nick Langworthy spent nearly an hour-and-a-half talking to and with the public in a roundtable discussion at the County Office Building, with nine out of 15 county legislators and at … Read more
Preparation for an earthquake has taken on additional significance after events last week in Turkey and Buffalo. Ready.gov, a federal public service campaign designed to educate and empower the American people to prepare for, respond to and mitigate emergencies, including natural and man-made disasters, is featuring earthquake preparation on its website as increased interest is … Read more
BREAKING: This is the last day that Allegany Hope will be posting to the Facebook page which we have been maintaining for several years now as we complete our transition to our new group Allegany Hope WNY Community News page at https://bit.ly/3DRdx6J. Individuals can jump over now and “Join” the group by clicking on the … Read more
As reported last Sunday, Allegany Hope has transitioned our full local news coverage from our Facebook page to this website due to information being easier to read, prior stories being searchable, and ongoing modifications at Facebook which are making it more and more difficult to use. We now are providing a link from our Facebook … Read more
EARLY ALERT: Strong winds Wednesday and Thursday and potential for excessive rain for part of Allegany County, NY, east on Wednesday are in National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts for this week. Wind gusts of between 40MPH and 50MPH are possible across the Southern Tier of New York, behind a strong cold front, with heavy rain … Read more