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OLEAN — Four hopefuls filed petitions to run for three city Common Council seats in November. Thursday was the deadline to file petitions for party no...

OLEAN — As the city eyes fixing the water line along Washington Street, officials hope to get the rough street taken care of, as well. The Common Coun...

OLEAN — Common Council members will re-examine the Walkable Olean Phase 2 project after the first of the year. The council’s committee of the whole ta...

OLEAN – An attorney on the Genesis House board stated Saturday that a men’s homeless shelter on South Second Street, which had been ordered to close b...

When a mayoral candidate on the short end of the vote takes the time to drop by her opponent’s election-night headquarters to offer congratulations an...

OLEAN — Bill Aiello has made history as Olean’s first full-time mayor to be re-elected. In a rematch of the 2013 mayoral race, Aiello, a Republican, d...

OLEAN — Oleanders will hit the polls to decide their next mayor on Tuesday, while most of the city’s wards will see their aldermen up for unopposed ne...

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 — Questions over economic development, budgeting and housing caused civil but sometimes pointed, verbal blows to be exchanged Wednesday night be...

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 — With a rematch of the 2013 mayoral race on the ballot in November, the candidates will again face off in debate this month. The debate between...

OLEAN — A candidate for mayor who failed twice to get on the ballot feels a write-in campaign could give Olean voters another choice on Election Day. ...

OLEAN — Election Day 2017 will be a repeat of Election Day 2013. Linda Witte, a Common Council member representing the city’s 1st Ward who served as O...

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 — A former city employee will come back to the area to lead his old department. Aldermen unanimously approved Tuesday the hiring of Bob Ring Jr....

OLEAN — A West Olean man has thrown his hat into the ring in a bid for the mayor’s job, hoping to get a spot on the November ballot. Joe Duplechian, o...

OLEAN — Four primaries in three races will greet some Olean voters on Sept. 12. The only city-wide primary, for Democratic Party members only, will be...

OLEAN — The city’s public safety committee will get a new draft of a proposed rental housing inspection law in the near future, and the public will be...