News
Apr 13, 2022
OLEAN — The 2022-23 city budget was approved Tuesday evening by a 5-2 margin, along with unanimous approval for increased water rates and steady sewer...
News
Apr 07, 2022
OLEAN — City officials are now eyeing replacing — rather than augmenting — the War Veterans Park pool with a splash pad. The Common Council directed e...
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Mar 10, 2022
OLEAN — City officials have COVID-19 home tests available for the public at no cost. Mayor Bill Aiello announced that the city has received COVID-19 a...
News
Mar 08, 2022
You see it in a lot of championship games in which the mayors of respective cities put up, say, a hometown bucket of wings to a hometown platter of cr...
News
Mar 01, 2022
OLEAN — Additional Common Council meetings will be needed to go through the next year’s city budget proposal. Mayor Bill Aiello released his proposed ...
News, NY State News
Jan 28, 2022
ALBANY — Olean Mayor Bill Aiello has been appointed to serve as treasurer of the New York State Conference Mayors. The selection was made by NYCOM’s e...
Crime, News
Jan 12, 2022
OLEAN — A city firefighter has been charged with several felonies for allegedly writing $116,000 in unauthorized checks to himself out of union funds....
News
Jan 04, 2022
OLEAN — Despite having “a tough two years,” progress was still made in 2021, the city’s chief executive announced Monday. At the start of his third te...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News, ...
Dec 14, 2021
LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers continue to encourage residents to wear masks to slow the spread of COVID-19, but they won’t enforce the ...
News
Nov 24, 2021
OLEAN — Two new city department heads were named Tuesday — one moving across the hall and the other coming from Albany. The Common Council unanimously...
News
Nov 04, 2021
OLEAN — Absentee ballots could overturn preliminary results in one city election, but the odds are stacked against an upset. Incumbent independent Ver...
News
Nov 03, 2021
OLEAN — The mayor’s office at city hall won’t need a new nameplate after Tuesday’s election results, but at least one ward will. Incumbent Bill Aiello...
News
Oct 27, 2021
The only city mayor reelected in a generation hopes to repeat his success as he runs again Nov. 2. Mayor Bill Aiello said his track record for helping...
News
Oct 23, 2021
OLEAN — The city’s Fourth Ward will see three candidates on the ballot Nov. 2. Sonya McCall will appear on the Democratic and Working Families lines, ...
News
Oct 22, 2021
OLEAN — After more than a year, work continuing the new downtown look of Walkable Olean on portions of Main and Front streets is complete. Local and s...
News
Oct 20, 2021
OLEAN — Beautiful murals, park spaces that allow everyone to play and lower water facility operating costs are all being considered for the next few y...
News
Oct 15, 2021
OLEAN — Efforts to catalog and plan for the city’s public tree population are ongoing, and officials they plan to show off their progress next week. A...
News
Sep 21, 2021
OLEAN — Voters across the city will see at least one contested race when they get their ballots. The mayoral race and alderman races in wards 2, 4 and...
Local News, News
June 14, 2025
OLEAN — The first protest Nevin Oliphant took part in was in 1967 in Los Angeles. He was a young teenager protesting the Vietnam War. In 2025 his caus...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Cathy Briggs, memorial service OLEAN — A memorial service for Cathy Briggs will be held Thursday (June 19, 2025) at Guenther Funeral Home, 1303 E. Sta...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
William S. Clemens ALLEGANY — William S. “Bill” Clemens, 74, of Allegany, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, surround...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
John R. Cornwall, loving husband, father and brother FREEDOM — John R. Cornwall, 75, of Freedom, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at his home, su...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Dennis L. Holliday, loving husband, father and grandfather LIMESTONE — Dennis L. Holliday, of Nichols Run Road, passed away Tuesday (June 10, 2025). D...
