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The job market can be a confusing place. If you believe the data, the unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in decades. But, the experts suggest t...

Nearly 200 people turned out Sunday, May 21, to run for a great cause in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. Held at Monroeville Community Park West, the secon...

O ur friend Dave Forney of Olean offered a good point the other day: Social media, at least the concept of it, is not as new as we are expected to bel...

OLEAN – The city’s aldermen have come to a general consensus that in order to fight blighted rental properties, regular inspections need to be perform...

Snow is a thing of the past. The chilly temperatures are a distant memory. You’ve traded in your sweaters, boots and scarves for tank tops, sandals an...

ALLEGANY — Darla Freaney and her sisters-in-law dashed to Fowler’s Taffy stand between raindrops Monday to buy their favorite hand-pulled candy, much ...

It’s reunion and banquet season — and organizers of the 118th annual Portville Central School Alumni Banquet are working with the Portville Heritage D...

LITTLE VALLEY — A penny a day. That’s what a proposed Cattaraugus County local law would collect as a surcharge on wireless telephone customers’ month...

OLEAN — A few changes are needed in the rehabilitation of the William O. Smith Recreation Center, to the tune of $155,000. But there is some money for...

A Chicago-based energy company is eyeing four northern Cattaraugus and Allegany County towns for up to 130 wind turbines. Invenergy, a company that de...

ALLEGANY — The carnival rides are waiting to be set up in the Allegany Fireman’s Park in preparation for the 2017 annual Old Home Week which will be h...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Faced with a much higher assessment than expected for its Solean solar energy projects, BQ Energy on Thursday asked the Cattaraugus Co...

OLEAN – Jess Anderson came up with the idea for a boat rental business in Olean one day while driving his sports utility vehicle in the area with a ka...

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday that the Appalacian Regional Commission has granted $1.5 million to the project. “This is great news...

SALAMANCA — The Common Council approved Wednesday a resolution abolishing all existing step schedules for nonunion city employees hired on or after Ju...

WELLSVILLE — Another $1.5 million has been added to get the boilers lit on Alfred State College’s biorefinery project. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a...

OLEAN — It used to be that Billings Sheet Metal Co. Inc. had plenty of metal fabricating business among local manufacturers. Now, with fewer manufactu...

F rom a case of stolen dynamite, to the revitalization of Oak Hill Park, here’s a look back at the week that was 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago in this ...