democracy

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 ...

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....

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...

NEW YORK (TNS) — TheDemocratsare leaderless; theDemocratshave an identity crisis; theDemocratshave lousy approval ratings. None of that precludes them...

OLEAN — Nominating petitions for election to the Olean Public Library Board of Trustees are available at the Library. There is one five-year term to b...

“And it’s one, two, three, what are we fightin’ for?..." Country Joe and the Fish sang those words from a protest song to half a million rain-soaked p...

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...

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...

SALAMANCA — The Board of Education of the Salamanca City Central School District has announced the availability of absentee voter ballots and early ma...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca School Board of Education has announced the availability of absentee ballots and early mail voter ballots for the annual sch...

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...

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...

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...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Board of Education announces Voter Registration Day will be held Tuesday, April 22, in the Superintendent’s Office conferenc...

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...

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...

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...

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...