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(Rick Miller/Olean Star) The number of local protesters in Olean to policies of President Trump have grown from a few dozen to more than 450.

Saturday protest in Olean will focus on Iran, Supreme Court

July 1, 2025

OLEAN — There are national protests for Fourth of July weekend. Olean will be having

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Olean High School Valedictorian Evan Snyder gives the valedictory address at the 143rd Olean Commencement on Saturday.

105 seniors graduate Saturday At 143rd Olean Commencement

June 30, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — One hundred and five Olean High School seniors

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Allegany-Limestone Valedictorian Ipshita Patra gives her Valedictory Address Saturday afternoon at tghe school's 30th Commencement.

85 Allegany-Limestone seniors graduate in 30th Commencement

June 30, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star ALLEGANY — Eighty-five Allegany-Limestone seniors graduated in the school’s 30th

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Portville Senior Class President Zya Rayne DeGolier addresses her classmates and family and friends attending commencement exercises Friday evening in the school gymnasium.

81 Portville seniors graduate at commencement Friday

June 28, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star PORTVILLE — Eighty-one Portville Central School seniors graduated at commencement

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Hinsdale Valedictorian Tyler Richards (right) and Salutatorian Peyton Keller stand in front of a Bobcat mural at the school’s main entrance Friday night. Twenty-eight seniors graduated in the school auditorium.

28 seniors graduate at Hinsdale commencement exercises Friday

June 28, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star HINSDALE — Twenty-eight seniors graduated during commencement exercises at Hinsdale

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) This airplane owned by Duflo Spray Chemical Co., parked at the Great Valley Airport, has been spraying mosquito larvicide across wetland areas in southern Cattaraugus County due to the high number of mosquitoes from heavy rains this spring.

Aerial larvicide spraying to bring mosquito relief

June 27, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star Relief from those pesky mosquitos is on the way in

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) St. Bonaventure public health students (from left) Ben Vitale, Molly Gipson and Kevin Eberth present their findings on Social Determinants of Health in Cattaraugus County to members of the Board of Health on Wednesday.

St. Bonaventure students share study findings with Board of Health

December 22, 2024

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — A trio of St. Bonaventure University public health students shared

Aiello: City not ignoring sewage overflows into river

December 20, 2024

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — Mayor Bill Aiello on Thursday detailed steps the city has

(Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office) David Dille, 51, of Great Valley was charged with drug and weapons possession after the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force served a search warrant at his home. Suspected methamphetamine and a 30-30 rifle were seized.

Suspected methamphetamine is seized in Great Valley raid

December 20, 2024

By RICK MILLER Olean Star GREAT VALLEY — A Great Valley man is facing drug and weapons

(Olean Historical and Preservation Society) This is the monument to President Teddy Roosevelt and New York Gov. Frank W. Higgins the Olean Historical and Preservation Society hopes to make from a Lincoln Park oak tree the two leaders planted in 1906.

Historical Society seeks monument for Roosevelt-Higgins tree in park

December 19, 2024

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — The tree in Lincoln Park planted 118 years