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    Treasurer GOP contest leads June Allegany County primaries
    Articles, Local News, News
    Treasurer GOP contest leads June Allegany County primaries
    BOB CLARK bclark@oleantimesherald.com 
    Jun 02, 2025
    BELMONT — A countywide race to head finances tops the ballot in Allegany County primaries this month. The Allegany County Board of Elections reported ...
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    Deadline for mayoral debate questions is Wednesday
    Articles, Local News, News
    Deadline for mayoral debate questions is Wednesday
    May 29, 2025
    OLEAN — The deadline to submit questions for the June 11 debate between the candidates running in the Republican primary for mayor is 7 p.m. Wednesday...
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    Food truck applications on agenda in Wellsville village
    Articles, Local News, News
    Food truck applications on agenda in Wellsville village
    KATHRYN ROSS news@oleantimesherald.com 
    May 28, 2025
    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 ...
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    Two new Olean Board of Education members sworn in
    Articles, Local News, News
    Two new Olean Board of Education members sworn in
    Brian McClellan bjm2herzen@yahoo.com 
    May 21, 2025
    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....
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    Voters pass school budgets, elect board members in Cattaraugus, Allegany counties
    Allegany County News, Articles, Cattaraugus County, ...
    Voters pass school budgets, elect board members in Cattaraugus, Allegany counties
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    May 21, 2025
    School districts across New York state held their annual budget votes and board elections on Tuesday. The following unofficial results were received f...
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    Unpopular Democrats can still win midterms
    Commentary, Nation World
    Unpopular Democrats can still win midterms
    DAVID M. DRUCKER Bloomberg Opinion 
    May 15, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — TheDemocratsare leaderless; theDemocratshave an identity crisis; theDemocratshave lousy approval ratings. None of that precludes them...
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    Aiello and Sherburne will debate June 11 ahead of Olean GOP primary
    Local News, News
    Aiello and Sherburne will debate June 11 ahead of Olean GOP primary
    Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
    May 14, 2025
    OLEAN — The two candidates running in the June 24 Republican primary for mayor of the city will take part in a debate at 7 p.m. June 11. Incumbent May...
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    Olean school district highlights $53M in proposed capital improvements
    Daily Headlines, Local News, News
    Olean school district highlights $53M in proposed capital improvements
    Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
    May 02, 2025
    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...
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    GOP candidate for Olean mayor among Cattaraugus County primary races
    Cattaraugus County, Daily Headlines, Local News, ...
    GOP candidate for Olean mayor among Cattaraugus County primary races
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Apr 30, 2025
    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...
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    Demonstrators in Wellsville: ‘Hands Off’ equal rights, safety net programs
    Allegany County News, Local News, News
    Demonstrators in Wellsville: ‘Hands Off’ equal rights, safety net programs
    KATHRYN ROSS news@oleantimesherald.com 
    Apr 27, 2025
    WELLSVILLE — Ally Fesmire, children's librarian at the David A. Howe Library, organized a "Hands Off" rally Saturday in the Fassett Green Space, with ...
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    Salamanca schools make absentee, early voter ballots available
    Local News, News
    Salamanca schools make absentee, early voter ballots available
    Apr 24, 2025
    SALAMANCA — The Board of Education of the Salamanca City Central School District has announced the availability of absentee voter ballots and early ma...
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    Salamanca school announces absentee ballot availability
    Cattaraugus County, Local News
    Salamanca school announces absentee ballot availability
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Apr 24, 2025
    SALAMANCA — The Salamanca School Board of Education has announced the availability of absentee ballots and early mail voter ballots for the annual sch...
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    League of Women Voters recognized as ALL IN award winner
    Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News
    League of Women Voters recognized as ALL IN award winner
    Olean Times Herald staff 
    Apr 14, 2025
    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...
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    Alfred State designated as a voter-friendly campus
    Allegany County News, Local News
    Alfred State designated as a voter-friendly campus
    Apr 04, 2025
    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...
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    Did elections in Fla., Wis. reflect changed political environment?
    Commentary, Nation World, New York
    Did elections in Fla., Wis. reflect changed political environment?
    NATHAN L. GONZALES CQ-Roll Call 
    Apr 03, 2025
    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...
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    Bump the Dump anniversary celebration Saturday in Belmont
    Allegany County News, Daily Headlines, Local News, ...
    Bump the Dump anniversary celebration Saturday in Belmont
    KATHRYN ROSS news@oleantimesherald.com 
    Apr 01, 2025
    BELMONT — Thirty-five years ago this week, Allegany County made history by writing its own chapter of civil disobedience engagement. The fight to keep...
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    Salamanca school district Voter Registration Day is April 22
    Cattaraugus County, Local News
    Salamanca school district Voter Registration Day is April 22
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Mar 26, 2025
    SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Board of Education announces Voter Registration Day will be held Tuesday, April 22, in the Superintendent’s Office conferenc...
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    New York’s top court blocks NYC from letting noncitizens vote
    News, NY State News
    New York’s top court blocks NYC from letting noncitizens vote
    Mar 20, 2025
    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...
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    Hochul widens the opening — can GOP capitalize?
    Commentary, New York
    Hochul widens the opening — can GOP capitalize?
    RYAN SILVERSTEIN RealClearPolitics 
    Mar 18, 2025
    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...
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    McCall announces Olean Ward 4 re-election bid
    Daily Headlines, Local News, News
    McCall announces Olean Ward 4 re-election bid
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    Mar 12, 2025
    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...
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    Iran can’t have nuclear weapons
    June 16, 2025
    Promising an apocalypse by the ayatollahs who were getting ever closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon to carry out that diabolical wish, Israel had eve...
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    Commentary, Opinion
    Readers’ Turn to Write: Americans face a choice at the ballot box
    June 16, 2025
    Growing up, my family was destitute. If not for food stamps, we would have had little food — even so, there were times when our refrigerator was empty...
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    What’s wrong with enforcing the law?
    Commentary, Opinion
    What’s wrong with enforcing the law?
    By SUSAN SHELLEY Los Angeles Daily News 
    June 16, 2025
    LOS ANGELES (TNS) — President Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law, and for the first time in many decades immigration enforcement does not resem...
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    Belfast celebrates reopening of County Road 26 bridge
    Local News, News
    Belfast celebrates reopening of County Road 26 bridge
    By Olean Times Herald staff 
    June 16, 2025
    BELFAST — A newly constructed and reopened bridge on County Road 26 in the town of Belfast has been named the William “Bill” A. Nichols Bridge. Allega...
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    Donald L. Thierman, Sr.
    Donald L. Thierman, Sr.
    Julie Keim 
    June 16, 2025
    Donald L. Thierman, Sr. OLEAN --- Donald L. Thierman, Sr., 86, passed away peacefully Friday (June 13, 2025) at The Pines of Olean. Born August 14, 19...
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