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    Food truck applications on agenda in Wellsville village
    Articles, Local News, News
    Food truck applications on agenda in Wellsville village
    KATHRYN ROSS news@oleantimesherald.com 
    May 28, 2025
    WELLSVILLE — Chickens were back on the agenda for Tuesday’s village board meeting — but it was the serving of, not the raising of fowl. In April, the ...
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    Two new Olean Board of Education members sworn in
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    Two new Olean Board of Education members sworn in
    Brian McClellan bjm2herzen@yahoo.com 
    May 21, 2025
    OLEAN — In a brief and cordial meeting Wednesday evening, two new members were sworn in to serve on the Olean City School District Board of Education....
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    Voters pass school budgets, elect board members in Cattaraugus, Allegany counties
    Allegany County News, Articles, Cattaraugus County, ...
    Voters pass school budgets, elect board members in Cattaraugus, Allegany counties
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    May 21, 2025
    School districts across New York state held their annual budget votes and board elections on Tuesday. The following unofficial results were received f...
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    Trump’s polling better than media thinks
    Articles, Commentary, Nation World
    Trump’s polling better than media thinks
    J.T. YOUNG RealClearPolitics 
    May 20, 2025
    The dispersed shot-pattern of President Trump’s approval ratings proves he’s still confounding pollsters. For weeks, and especially since Trump’s anno...
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    Olean school board could extend Morris’ contract Tuesday even as district votes on new board members
    Local News, News
    Olean school board could extend Morris’ contract Tuesday even as district votes on new board members
    Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
    May 19, 2025
    OLEAN — At 5:30 p.m. Tuesday the Olean City School District Board of Education will sit for a special meeting in which they could vote to extend the c...
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    Unpopular Democrats can still win midterms
    Commentary, Nation World
    Unpopular Democrats can still win midterms
    DAVID M. DRUCKER Bloomberg Opinion 
    May 15, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — TheDemocratsare leaderless; theDemocratshave an identity crisis; theDemocratshave lousy approval ratings. None of that precludes them...
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    Olean school district highlights $53M in proposed capital improvements
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    Olean school district highlights $53M in proposed capital improvements
    Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
    May 02, 2025
    OLEAN — While much of the focus of the last Olean City School District capital project was on athletic fields adjacent to the Intermediate Middle Scho...
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    GOP candidate for Olean mayor among Cattaraugus County primary races
    Cattaraugus County, Daily Headlines, Local News, ...
    GOP candidate for Olean mayor among Cattaraugus County primary races
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Apr 30, 2025
    LITTLE VALLEY — Who will represent the Republican Party in the race for mayor of Olean is among the four primary races to be decided June 24 in Cattar...
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    Salamanca schools make absentee, early voter ballots available
    Local News, News
    Salamanca schools make absentee, early voter ballots available
    Apr 24, 2025
    SALAMANCA — The Board of Education of the Salamanca City Central School District has announced the availability of absentee voter ballots and early ma...
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    Salamanca school announces absentee ballot availability
    Cattaraugus County, Local News
    Salamanca school announces absentee ballot availability
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Apr 24, 2025
    SALAMANCA — The Salamanca School Board of Education has announced the availability of absentee ballots and early mail voter ballots for the annual sch...
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    League of Women Voters recognized as ALL IN award winner
    Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News
    League of Women Voters recognized as ALL IN award winner
    Olean Times Herald staff 
    Apr 14, 2025
    OLEAN — The League of Women Voters of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties has been honored as one of 37 ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge champion award...
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    Alfred State designated as a voter-friendly campus
    Allegany County News, Local News
    Alfred State designated as a voter-friendly campus
    Apr 04, 2025
    ALFRED — Alfred State was one of 272 campuses named a Voter Friendly Campus by Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA–Student Affairs Ad...
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    Did elections in Fla., Wis. reflect changed political environment?
    Commentary, Nation World, New York
    Did elections in Fla., Wis. reflect changed political environment?
    NATHAN L. GONZALES CQ-Roll Call 
    Apr 03, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — With 19 months to go before the midterm elections, it’s too early to know what the political environment will be like inNovember 20...
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    Salamanca school district Voter Registration Day is April 22
    Cattaraugus County, Local News
    Salamanca school district Voter Registration Day is April 22
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Mar 26, 2025
    SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Board of Education announces Voter Registration Day will be held Tuesday, April 22, in the Superintendent’s Office conferenc...
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    New York’s top court blocks NYC from letting noncitizens vote
    News, NY State News
    New York’s top court blocks NYC from letting noncitizens vote
    Mar 20, 2025
    NEW YORK (AP) — New York state's top court put an end Thursday to New York City's effort to empower noncitizens to vote in municipal elections. In a 6...
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    Hochul widens the opening — can GOP capitalize?
    Commentary, New York
    Hochul widens the opening — can GOP capitalize?
    RYAN SILVERSTEIN RealClearPolitics 
    Mar 18, 2025
    March Madness still afflicts the Empire State’s politics, as Gov. Kathy Hochul has doubled back to Elise Stefanik’s soon-to-be empty congressional sea...
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    Democracy’s principles and values are our civic lifeblood
    Commentary, Local Columnists
    Democracy’s principles and values are our civic lifeblood
    JOHN M. CLELAND 
    Mar 14, 2025
    When the county is in turmoil and awash in frustration, suspicion and anger it may help to think about basic principles — to think about those ideas t...
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    McCall announces Olean Ward 4 re-election bid
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    McCall announces Olean Ward 4 re-election bid
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Mar 12, 2025
    OLEAN — Incumbent of the Ward 4 seat on the city’s Common Council has officially declared her intention to run for re-election this year. Sonya McCall...
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    Court affirms Allegany County vacating legislature seat
    Allegany County News, Daily Headlines, News, ...
    Court affirms Allegany County vacating legislature seat
    Olean Times Herald staff 
    Mar 06, 2025
    An Allegany County Supreme Court ruling has affirmed that former legislator Adam Cyr vacated his seat by moving from the district he represented. Legi...
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    Olean school board nominating petitions available
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    Olean school board nominating petitions available
    Olean Times Herald staff 
    Mar 01, 2025
    OLEAN — The Olean City School District’s annual board election and budget vote will be held May 20 in the Olean Intermediate Middle School between 7 a...
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    Skatepark in Allegany River Park
    Local News, News
    Skatepark in Allegany River Park
    June 13, 2025
    Zach Chisewick (left) and Josh Munday, both of Bradford, Pa., use the skatepark ramps at Allegany River Park as some of the best weather of the otherw...
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    Village of Cattaraugus seeks input for Downtown Revitalization Initiative
    Local News, News
    Village of Cattaraugus seeks input for Downtown Revitalization Initiative
    By Olean Times Herald staff 
    June 13, 2025
    CATTARAUGUS — The first public workshop on the village of Cattaraugus Downtown Revitalization Initiative is set for 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Wednesday in the...
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    Allegany County rider earns equestrian national titles in Tenn.
    Local News, News
    Allegany County rider earns equestrian national titles in Tenn.
    June 13, 2025
    Jesse Heffley, senior at Alfred-Almond Central School, won national titles June 7 at the Youth Equestrian Development Association (YEDA) National Cham...
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    Pfeiffer Nature Center plans membership event
    Local News, News
    Pfeiffer Nature Center plans membership event
    June 13, 2025
    PORTVILLE — Pfeiffer Nature Center will host a membership drive event 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the Pavilion, 1974 Lillibridge Road. There will be a gar...
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    Sempolinski sponsors Summer Reading Challenge
    Local News, News
    Sempolinski sponsors Summer Reading Challenge
    June 13, 2025
    ALBANY — Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski has launched a Summer Reading Challenge for school children in kindergarten through seventh gradE. “I wanted to d...
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    Olean youth fishing derby set for June 28
    Local News
    Olean youth fishing derby set for June 28
    Bob Clark 
    June 13, 2025
    OLEAN -- The city of Olean youth fishing derby is returning again this year, set for the morning of June 28. Kris Shewairy, coordinator of the City of...
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