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St. Bonaventure men’s hoops 2025-26 non-conference schedule breakdown

July 25, 2025

By SPENCER BATES batesoleanstar@gmail.com ST. BONAVENTURE — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team has officially unveiled its non-conference schedule for the upcoming 2025-26 season. Fixtures against Youngstown State (Nov. 15),

THURSDAY ROUNDUP: Shamrocks, Mickey’s exchange blows in high-scoring OSWL Playoffs

July 25, 2025

OLEAN, NY — It was a back-and-forth, high-scoring affair between Shamrocks and Mickey’s with the former winding up the victors at the end of the day. Shamrock’s defeated Mickey’s by

Deering, Houser set to lead ‘high quality,’ ‘exciting’ New York rosters into Corporate Cup

July 25, 2025

By SPENCER BATES batesoleanstar@gmail.com BRADFORD, PA — The ninth annual NY/PA Corporate Cup Soccer Showcase is set to take center stage on July 27, bringing together the best local talent

FILE -- Josh Wilson at the plate during the Oilers' double-header against Dansville on Monday. Seeing the Gliders again on Thursday, Wilson finished 1-for-2 at the plate, scoring twice. | Photo by Hunter O. Lyle

Dansville hops Oilers in standings with makeup win

July 24, 2025

By HUNTER O. LYLE lyleoleanstar@gmail.com OLEAN, NY – In their first taste of postseason action – technically – the Olean Oilers fell to the Dansville Gliders 9-4, shifting the balance

(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.

Olean High School graduates 116 seniors at 142nd annual commencement Saturday

June 24, 2024

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.

Olean Police officers help to rescue cat from under hood of woman’s car

June 24, 2024

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.

Senecas threaten legal action on overflows

June 24, 2024

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.

Allegheny River paddle by activist upstaged by big sewage overflow

June 21, 2024

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