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As expected, gasoline prices increased in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which shut down refinery production on the Houston area. Indeed, gas pric...

OLEAN — After more than 100 years of shoe sales, the area Lester Shoe brand appears to be finished. Officials with the company for Lester’s Shoe Fly a...

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BELMONT — Allegany County legislators agreed to extend the county’s above-average sales tax rate for three more years Monday. But not without oppositi...

The Olean community stepped out and stepped up this past weekend, and we couldn’t be happier about it. Last Friday evening, the Chamber and downtown m...

OLEAN — John Sayegh has never seen so much “hustle and bustle” in downtown Olean than last week’s StrOlean event. With Jamestown Community College’s C...

What does Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico have to do with possibly increasing gas prices in Olean and the surrounding area? The increasingly me...

We don’t often look for opportunities to toot our own horn, but there are times … Olean native Frank Palmer, now living in Sacramento, has emailed us ...

OLEAN — As purple real estate signs change to green, Howard Hanna officials are looking favorably to the future. Flanked by dignitaries, Dennis Pezzim...

OLEAN — A bigger store with wider aisles and a new atmosphere greeted shoppers on a misty morning Wednesday, as ALDI on West State Street hosted a gra...

OLEAN — For the past five months, staff and congregation at the new location for Believers Chapel on Constitution Avenue have quietly worked at renova...

OLEAN — When Luke Wenke learned ride-sharing services may be coming to upstate New York, he almost immediately collected his license, registration and...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Land Bank Corp. is about to pull the trigger on its first transactions — including authorizing the demolition o...

OLEAN — Brooke Shumway and her husband Loran moved their tattoo parlor to its current location on North Union Street in 2014 — the same year construct...

BELMONT — Allegany County will again ask the state for almost $1 million to help seniors, the disabled and veterans stay in their manufactured homes. ...

OLEAN — As students head back to school next month, they’ll be in need of pencils, papers, backpacks and binders, well as the necessities like toothpa...

LITTLE VALLEY — Nestled in an area of the infield at the Cattaraugus County Fairgrounds this weekend are a band of re-enactors portraying what life wa...

LITTLE VALLEY — The three-day 2017 Cattaraugus County Trapper’s Association Sportsmen’s Rendezvous opened Friday amid a slide in fur prices and partic...