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OLEAN — Auditors gave the city a clean bill of financial health on Tuesday, but said there are a few improvements over controls that could be made. Da...

OLEAN — Starting June 1, vacant properties in the city will need to be inspected before occupancy. The Common Council voted unanimously Tuesday to app...

OLEAN — The city’s proposed rental inspection law was sent back to the drawing board, but no policy changes are expected. The council unanimously tabl...

OLEAN — Efforts to refurbish four of the city’s ball fields are continuing, with about half of the Cattaraugus County-sourced funds spent. The Common ...

OLEAN — From glowing support to outright denunciation, commenters expressed a range of opinions at a public hearing on the city’s proposed rental insp...

OLEAN — For the past couple of months, staff at the Cattaraugus County Arts Council in Allegany have been watching from a distance as workmen have ren...

OLEAN — At 220 N. Seventh St., the roof is broken in patches and the outside second-floor stairs wobble under one person’s weight. Bare light fixtures...

OLEAN — The Common Council authorized a new contract to keep a city police officer in the Olean City School District. On Tuesday, the council voted 6-...

OLEAN — A year ago, then-alderman candidate Linda Witte said she had no intention of running again for mayor. But that all changed after less than a y...

OLEAN — After a year behind the mayor’s desk in the Olean Municipal Building, Bill Aiello hopes to keep the seat for another four years. And Olean’s c...

OLEAN — For the last three years, Kelly Andreano has been walking the sidewalks of the Second Ward, trying to help her neighbors. “I really do enjoy t...

FREEDOM — Friday the 13th: a date that fills some with dread and attracts attention from those interested in the paranormal. In the far northern reach...

OLEAN — A large, fresh-air market tying into the heart of Olean could be the ticket to make the city a destination, the brain behind a proposal said T...

OLEAN — City officials hope to discuss a new idea for the $1.25 million farmer’s market project next week — moving it downtown. The Common Council app...

ALLEGANY — Visitors to gallery shows at the Cattaraugus County Arts Council have often had to step around or between art easels, pottery wheels and sh...

OLEAN — For a second time, neighbors, landlords and tenants sounded off on a proposal to inspect the city’s roughly 2,700 rental dwellings. Around thr...

OLEAN — Can Linda Witte break the city’s apparent curse on re-electing a mayor? Witte, an alderman and retired nurse who served as the city’s first wo...

OLEAN —City officials are re-warning motorists to watch for congestion as a result of several street projects underway near Wayne Street and Buffalo S...