A farm has purchased nearly $3.5 million worth of property in the southern end of the county. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently ...

While it's not celebrated nationwide, St. Nicholas Day holds a special place for German and Dutch communities across the U.S. Festivities and traditions are held in various cities, including in ...

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Olyphant celebrated its 120th anniversary on Dec. 6. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by His ...

There is a magic about the name of St. Nicholas. His feast day, celebrated during the Advent season, is a little foretaste of the Christmas to come. In many cultures, there is the giving of gifts ...

St. Nicholas - St. Mary Parish, which has maintained two historic church buildings on South Washington Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre ever since two parishes merged in October 2023, is closing one of ...

After years of excavation work, the leader of an archeological expedition at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, announced this week that her team has found a sarcophagus that may contain ...

Archaeologists say they've found Tomb of St Nicholas who inspired the story of 'Santa Claus.' They uncovered a six-foot-long limestone tomb with a raised lid and pitch roof buried up to six feet ...

A team of archeologists working at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, say they may have found the grave of St. Nicholas, who has been popularized worldwide as “Santa Claus.” ...

The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern ...

On Dec. 23, 1823, a poem called “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” was published anonymously in the Sentinel, the local newspaper ...

Scientists who uncovered the tomb of St. Nicholas have digitally reconstructed his face - and everyone is saying the same thing. Nicholas of Myra, the patron saint of sailors, merchants and ...