By Kathy Kellogg With more than 900 oil and gas well permits expected in New York State this year and booming interest in the Marcellus shale deposit extending across West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York's Southern Tier, local landowners could soon be talking like Texas oil men.

By Eric Anderson, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Mar. 19--ALBANY -- Both companies talked of their "near-death experiences." And both managed to bounce back, learning to compete successfully in a global market, although with somewhat different strategies.

By Kathy Kellogg The Olean Family YMCA is bursting at the seams a little more than two years after opening a new $9 million facility on Wayne Street. "The Y is almost to the max point, and parking and exercise machines are full," State Sen.