NEW YORK, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Holy Name Province, the largest group of Franciscan Friars in the U.S., has created a four-page Lenten study booklet called, "St. Paul Guides Us Through Lent to Easter." The booklet contains daily Pauline passages for the duration of Lent, from Ash Wednesday Feb.

By Kathy Kellogg The Olean Common Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a local law establishing a local registry and residency prohibitions for most convicted child sex offenders.

In keeping with its commitment to support the local community's educational initiatives, CUTCO Cutlery Corporation, the nation's largest manufacturer of high-end kitchen cutlery, is leading an important effort to bring a Challenger Center for Space Science Exploration (http://www.challenger.org) to the company's home base of Olean, New York.

By Jay Rey, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Mar. 27--St. Bonaventure University failed to provide a complete accounting of how it spent more than $2 million donated to the school for an academic endowment and library addition, the donors allege in a lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court.

By The Buffalo News, N.Y. Apr. 29--Buffalo attorney Mark J. Pesz k o has been named a trustee of the Kosciuszko Foundation. He'll be working on the foundation's mission to foster relations and understanding between the United States and Poland.