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OLEAN — It will be almost two weeks before the Olean Common Council selects its leader for the year. At the panel’s reorganization meeting Thursday, a...

OLEAN — Some improvements could be made to downtown landscaping, said one of the volunteers with his boots on the ground. Dr. John Balacki, who worked...

Citizens of Olean have the opportunity to elect three people to represent us in the Cattaraugus County Legislature. It is very important that we elect...

OLEAN — LGBTQ Oleanders and allies — including two openly gay candidates for the Common Council — denounced homophobic language used in the lead-up to...

OLEAN — After a month of delay, the contract is getting signed to fix a priority water project in the city. The Common Council on Tuesday unanimously ...

OLEAN — Officials hope to get residents out into their neighborhoods to clean up this fall. Common Council members were enthusiastic Tuesday about a c...

OLEAN — The optics of hiring an attorney at the center of a sexual harassment probe are not sitting well with the president of the Olean Common Counci...

OLEAN — Looking at repairing the pavement at the Cattaraugus County-Olean Airport, Olean city aldermen had a bigger question: what is the future of th...

OLEAN — City officials hope to find some way of dealing with the long-term congestion on North 12th Street. The Common Council’s Public Safety Committ...

OLEAN — The list of houses torn down by the city to fight blight is getting a little longer. On Tuesday, the Common Council unanimously backed a propo...

OLEAN — New cop cars, more money for fixing sidewalks and other expenditures received the go-ahead Tuesday night. The Common Council unanimously appro...

LITTLE VALLEY — A state Supreme Court judge ruled Thursday that Donna Vickman cannot run on the Conservative Party line for a one-year vacancy on the ...

OLEAN — Censure and ethics investigations have not been ruled out in response to a video allegedly depicting Alderman Kevin Dougherty smoking marijuan...

OLEAN — For homeowners with broken, dislodged or cracked sidewalks, now’s the time to get cracking. The Olean Common Council created the City of Olean...

OLEAN — Average homeowners can expect a single-digit increase in their city property taxes on June 1. In a 15-minute meeting Wednesday afternoon, the ...

OLEAN — Officials hope to use a special meeting today to iron out just how much city property taxes will go up in June. The Common Council is set to m...

OLEAN — As a deadline approaches, city officials continue to hammer out the next budget agreement. The Common Council’s finance committee met Tuesday ...

OLEAN — Help for homeowners to fix up bad sidewalks may be on the way. Common Council President John Crawford, D-Ward 5, presented a sidewalk rebate p...