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OLEAN — Free parking is coming back to downtown for the holiday season. The Common Council unanimously passed a resolution declaring that all city-own...

OLEAN — Two political newcomers are hoping to fill in for a retiring alderman in January. Clarissa Ivan is on the Democratic line in the Nov. 8 electi...

OLEAN — Members of the Common Council expressed their support for Olean City School District students following controversy over a principal and subse...

OLEAN — After years of false starts, city officials have approved a new noise ordinance. On Tuesday, the Olean Common Council approved a revision to C...

OLEAN — While most attention is on federal-level races, city voters are seeing several local decisions on the ballot. Along with the Ward 1 alderman r...

OLEAN — After nine months and other government bodies holding meetings online, the Olean Common Council is expected to follow suit next week. Alderman...

OLEAN — Familiar faces will be on the ballot in the city’s Common Council elections this fall. The Cattaraugus County Board of Elections reported that...

OLEAN — The majority of city aldermen threw their support behind the Black Lives Matter movement on Tuesday. In a 5-2 vote, the Common Council approve...

OLEAN — A city alderman is under fire for lambasting a local business for enforcing a COVID-19-related executive order. On Wednesday, Kevin Dougherty,...

OLEAN — The city’s Sixth Ward is without a voice on the Common Council after Alderman Nate Smith resigned abruptly Tuesday evening. The five-term Repu...

OLEAN — Design work on $6 million in repaving at the Cattaraugus County-Olean Airport will move ahead, but questions remain over the long-term future ...

OLEAN — The new Common Council president should not take long to adapt to the role — he’s been there before. In a 4-3 vote during a special meeting Mo...

OLEAN — A one-purpose meeting next week should choose the next Common Council president. The Olean Common Council will host a special meeting Monday e...

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 — Aldermen will decide on whether to ban smoking in city parks next month. The Common Council’s public safety committee on Tuesday forwarded on ...

OLEAN — A third entrance into Franchot Park might help improve the South Olean neighborhood, city officials said Tuesday. During a Common Council stra...

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...