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Legislature unanimously approves record $293.7 million budget
By RICK MILLER Olean Star LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers unanimously approved a record $293.7 million county budget for 2025 on Tuesday. The budget contains a 7.29% decrease in the full
Great Lakes Cheese Co. makes first cheese at Franklinville plant
By RICK MILLER Olean Star FRANKLINVILLE — Great Lakes Cheese Co. employees have made the first cheese at the new $700 million plant in Franklinville — an Italian cheese. The first tanker
Cattaraugus County overdose deaths take a nose dive in 2024
By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — With a month to go in 2024, overdose deaths in Cattaraugus County are down for the third year in a row. So far this year,
My Turn: DEC’s Zoar Valley timber plans for bird habitat is threat to old growth
By Lily Harrington So, yes. Technically, the DEC is correct with their white-knuckled, redundant rebuttal: “We’re not cutting old-growth trees.” For the damage the old growth will suffer on their

MONDAY ROUNDUP: Portville opens with shutout; O-E, A-L softball dominate
GOWANDA, NY – Unable to get past Gowanda’s ace, the Portville baseball team opened their season with a shutout loss, falling 9-0. As Portville failed to find contact at the

Randolph homers in extra innings, spoils Olean’s season opener
By HUNTER O. LYLE lyleoleanstar@gmail.com OLEAN, NY – Despite plugging in two runs in the bottom of the seventh, the Olean softball team fell short of a comeback to open

Chuck Gray Selected as NPRC’s 2025 Commencement Speaker
CORRY – Charles “Chuck” Eurydice Gray has been selected as the commencement speaker for NPRC’s2025 Commencement Ceremony slated to be held on Saturday, May 17 at Enchanted Beginnings inCorry. Gray

Weekend Wrap: Salamanca rolls past Ellicottville 15-6
SALAMANCA — The Salamanca baseball team, playing the second game of a season-opening weekend with back-to-back games, showed no signs of fatigue and rolled past Ellicottville to move to 2-0












