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Early turnovers sink Olean as Lady Gators tally win No. 5
By HUNTER O. LYLE lyleoleanstar@gmail.com OLEAN, NY – Testing their luck on the road, the Allegany-Limestone girls’ basketball team stretched their win streak to four with a wire-to-wire 48-31 win

Bona women’s hoops set for big test at red-hot Richmond
By SPENCER BATES batesoleanstar@gmail.com RICHMOND, VA — The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team will look to limit its self-induced mistakes as it hits the road to face Richmond, one of

Bona men’s hoops look to ‘grow together’ ahead of Richmond fixture
By SPENCER BATES batesoleanstar@gmail.com ST. BONAVENTURE — After the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team dropped its second conference game in a row, co-captain Noel Brown mentioned how this is a

LYLE: Steelers bow out of season, leave locker room full of questions
By HUNTER O. LYLE lyleoleanstar@gmail.com At the end of the road, the Pittsburgh Steelers saw a culmination of all their faults. All their glaring, mounting problems came to a head
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
Olean Common Council votes to continue solar moratorium
By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — The Olean Common Council voted 5-1 Tuesday for a local law extending a city moratorium on new solar farms or facilities. Alderman Vernon Robinson Jr.,












