![(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Olean High School Valedictorian Aila Shoup addresses classmates, parents, family and school officials during her Valedictory Address Saturday at the 142nd annual Commencement in the high school auditorium.](https://i0.wp.com/oleanstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_6762.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1)
Olean High School graduates 116 seniors at 142nd annual commencement Saturday
By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — One hundred sixteen Olean High School seniors graduated Saturday in a sea of red robes and mortar boards at the 142nd annual Commencement
![(Photo provided) It was a happy ending for a kitten stuck under a car hood Monday. From left are: Patrolmen Zack Spears and Joe Cottone; Sgt. Chris Lickfeld (holding the kitten) and Cordell Hill, an auto mechanic who helped remove panels so Lickfeld could grab it.](https://i0.wp.com/oleanstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_7780.jpeg?fit=300%2C237&ssl=1)
Olean Police officers help to rescue cat from under hood of woman’s car
By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — A Bolivar-Richburg Central School teacher on her way to work on Monday heard a kitten meowing under her hood as she drove down
![(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Degaweno:da’s, a Seneca activist, kayaks past the Fourth Street pumping station outflow on the Allegheny River on Thursday. The night before, 200,000 gallons of untreated sewage overflowed from the station into the river.](https://i0.wp.com/oleanstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_6605.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1)
Senecas threaten legal action on overflows
SALAMANCA – Seneca Nation President Rickey Armstrong Sr. asked the legal department to look into legal action against the City of Olean over its latest discharges into the Allegheny River.
![(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Degaweno:da’s, a Seneca Indian member of Defend Ohi’yo, departed from the South Union Street canoe and kayak launch Thursday morning to thank Olean city officials for taking steps to stop sewage overflows into the Allegheny River. He later found heavy rains Wednesday night had produced record sewage overflows into the river.](https://i0.wp.com/oleanstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_6609.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1)
Allegheny River paddle by activist upstaged by big sewage overflow
By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — For the Summer Solstice Thursday, Degaweno:da’s, a Seneca environmental activist, paddled his kayak on the Allegheny River from Olean to Allegany to recognize
![(Rick Miller/Olean Star) State Sen. George Borrello (left) speaks at the Right Thinkers meeting on agriculture Monday. At right is House Agriculture Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson.](https://i0.wp.com/oleanstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_6529.jpeg?fit=300%2C165&ssl=1)
House Ag Committee chairman Thompson touts dairy bill that cuts $28B in food stamps, claims inflation hurting farmers despite drop in inflation
By RICK MILLER Olean Star ALLEGANY — The U.S. needs small and medium-sized farms to spread the risk, but inflation is killing everybody and stalking our farmers, House Agriculture Committee
![(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Pastor Tyrone Hall of the Church Without Walls holds boxes of sneakers that have already been donated for Feet Heat 5, the church’s annual sneaker giveaway for area youths.](https://i0.wp.com/oleanstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_6510.jpeg?fit=300%2C214&ssl=1)
Feet Heat 5 is underway by Church Without Walls
By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — Feet Heat 5 is underway! The Church Without Walls has begun its annual drive to collect quality sneakers for area youths. This year’s