finance

OLEAN — Almost a year after being slapped with a $1.03 million judgment, the city will be heading back to court on claims of not paying for the Walkab...

OLEAN — A farmer’s market will be built in Lincoln Park. The Common Council on Tuesday awarded three contracts for $1.06 million in construction for t...

OLEAN — The first draft of the city’s 2019-20 spending plan will be released this week, but Mayor Bill Aiello said it likely won’t contain many surpri...

OLEAN —Mayor Bill Aiello will be in Albany Monday for the New York Conference of Mayors’ annual winter legislative meeting, in which he will join in u...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cattaraugus County Industrial Development Agency board members reacted with interest Thursday to an application for tax breaks for a $...

OLEAN — City officials are confident that new bids for the Lincoln Park farmers’ market will allow the project to be completed this summer. On Wednesd...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Public Works officials presented an aggressive schedule Wednesday to construct a new Franklinville Highway Barn by ...

OLEAN — The $1,000 overweight truck fee introduced for this year will be re-examined by the Common Council following flak from several firms. Mayor Bi...

OLEAN — When Della Moore began setting up displays and making plans for Black History Month activities in Olean this week, she also reflected on how t...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Travis Mayer trained at Holiday Valley before he won the silver medal for moguls in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. He’s lo...

When a large-scale wind turbine project was proposed for the town of Allegany several years ago, I wrote a column arguing against it. My main objectio...

OLEAN — In 2018 funds at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation made possible a record $1.1 million in grants to support charitable causes and no...

First of all I thank Kathleen Kellogg for her column on the town of Farmersville (“Residents Should Direct Future of Their Town”) in the Jan. 13 editi...

OLEAN — A Cuba business is balking at a city fee for oversized truck traffic — a permit that until this year was free. Meanwhile, city officials are c...

OLEAN — Locals are spending more — and local governments are collecting more in sales tax revenue. Local sales tax collections continued to climb in 2...

New York State Farm Bureau President David Fisher outlined the agriculture lobby group’s legislative goals for 2019 in a media call last week. Income ...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County officials hope to learn more about the local impact of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2019-20 state budget at next we...

SALAMANCA — Ten new properties came into the ownership of the city of Salamanca Wednesday following foreclosure due to unpaid taxes for at least three...