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August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
Local News, NY State News, Western New York
Mar 05, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — Former President Donald Trump may have saved Gov. Andrew Cuomo from having to spend millions of dollars in his $193 billion state budge...
Local News, News
Mar 04, 2021
OLEAN — Younger police and firefighters have helped bring down costs in the 2021-22 budget, city officials said Wednesday. In a special meeting of the...
Local News, News
Feb 27, 2021
OLEAN — City officials will start ironing out the mayor’s proposed 2021-22 budget — totaling $25.68 million with a 1.31% tax levy increase — next week...
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Feb 17, 2021
OLEAN — Mayor Bill Aiello on Tuesday released a tentative 2021-22 city budget with a general fund totaling $17,737,060 and carrying a 1.3% tax levy in...
Allegany County News, Local News
Feb 11, 2021
CUBA — A series of 2021-22 budget workshops scheduled for the Cuba Village Board of Trustees are set for 2:30 p.m. Feb. 25, March 18 and March 25 in t...
Local News, News
Feb 11, 2021
ALLEGANY — While the community of Allegany continues to maintain daily life during the continuing pandemic, leaders are hopeful that proposed state ai...
Feb 05, 2021
Faced with steep declines in enrollment, several of Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities are merging to adjust to the population shift. Soon, six u...
News, NY State News
Feb 01, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed financial plan, which supplants state education aid with federal COVID-19 relief dollars, steers school...
Local Columnists, New York
Jan 27, 2021
By Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s estimate, New York faces a $15 billion budget shortfall. So why is the state so hesitant to look for revenue where it obviously...
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Jan 22, 2021
CUBA — The Cuba-Rushford Board of Education have learned that the Bill’s Mafia includes the district’s elementary students. In a video production show...
News, NY State News
Jan 10, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — The state Constitution has long prohibited New York from taking on debt without first seeking approval from voters, but through a proce...
Allegany County News, Local News, News
Jan 05, 2021
WELLSVILLE — At the first Wellsville Board of Education meeting of 2021, the board tapped recent graduates to work in the school while they are home o...
Local News, News
Jan 04, 2021
OLEAN — A new addition on the rear of Central Fire Station is coming along slowly, but surely, city fire officials reported. A $40,000 project, funded...
News, NY State News
Dec 28, 2020
ALBANY (TNS) — President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law the $900 billion pandemic relief package that includes $5.8 billion for New York schoo...
Allegany County News, Business News, News
Nov 15, 2020
WELLSVILLE — Another expansion is on the horizon for Walgreens — this time in the town of Wellsville. A last week’s town board meeting, members were a...
Local News, News
Nov 14, 2020
SMETHPORT — Few professions have risen as fast as that of school business manager. School districts have grown and so have the budgets, which can best...
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Nov 11, 2020
LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers will contract with the City of Olean for $17,659 for capital improvements at Olean Municipal Airport. The...
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Oct 29, 2020
A strong September helped wipe away many of the local sales tax collection losses earlier this year, the state reported Tuesday. But state aid cuts an...
Commentary, Opinion
September 17, 2026
The quintessential image of up-and-coming musicians toughing it out in a squalid tour bus was far from reality in 2013, when the federal government sp...
Commentary, Opinion
September 17, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Political polarization has become so extreme that when Democrats and Republicans find common ground on a single issue — like their sh...
Commentary, Opinion
September 17, 2026
WASHINGTON. (TNS) — The Roman poet Juvenal used the Latin phrase for “bread and circuses” to describe the distractions used by First Century Roman rul...
Local News, News, Western New York News
September 17, 2026
OLEAN — Families across the country are facing a severe childcare shortage, and that need in the greater Olean community is something the YMCA of the ...
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
September 17, 2026
It’s the second week of archery season, daylight's fading, you can’t help thinking of dinner. You turn and look behind you one last time. To your abso...
Lifestyle, Lifestyles
September 17, 2026
DEAR ABBY: My husband (80) and I (72) have been married 25 years. This is the second marriage for both of us. Until three years ago, I felt I had a wo...
