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(YouTube) During a public comment session of the Olean Common Council Wednesday a speaker who offered Olean coins to help stop sewage overflows into the Allegheny River was arrested for disturbing a public meeting.

Man arrested after offering coins to city to stem sewage overflows

March 26, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — A man who approached the speaker’s podium with silver coins

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Members of the Cattaraugus County Industrial Development Agency met in its Ellicottville offices on Tuesday.

Cattaraugus County IDA OKs $9.6 million in tax inducements, does not approve Alle-Catt PILOT

March 26, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star ELLICOTTVILLE — Tax breaks for business expansion projects in Olean, Allegany and

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca at his inauguration last November at the Seneca Allegany Casino and Event Center in Salamanca.

Seneca president, councilors meet with governor who will issue apology over state role in Thomas Indian School abuse

March 26, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca and Seneca tribal councilors met earlier

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Construction work on Walkable Olean 4 — South Union Street from Franchot Boulevard to State Street — resumed Monday by Millennium Construction.

Walkable Olean 4 construction resumed on South Union Street Monday

March 26, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — Millennium Construction resumed work Monday on Walkable Olean 4 —

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Bob Wright of Wright’s Farms, Farmersville, keeps watch over the wood-fired evaporator boiling down maple sap into syrup in the farm’s sugar house on Laidlaw Road. The farm has been making maple syrup since 1840.

Wright’s Farms has been in maple business since 1840

March 26, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star FARMERSVILLE — Wright’s Farm on Laidlaw Road in Farmersville has been producing

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) The developer of Olean Town Centre is seeking to redevelop Olean Center Mall in a $40 million program that includes the city using eminent domain to obtain site interest rights.

Common Council votes 4-3 for public hearing on using eminent domain for Olean Mall

March 25, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — The Olean Common Council voted 4-3 at a

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Scott Warner of Olean plays guitar and sings outside of Color It Creative, 124 N. Union St., Olean during the last Uptown Olean Music and Art Walk Friday. Walking by is Tony Costa.

Last Uptown Olean Music & Art Walk of season held Friday

October 3, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — The last Uptown Olean Music & Art Walk

The Cattaraugus County Board of Health marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month with somber report.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month in county focuses on prevention

October 3, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — As many as 62 women in Cattaraugus County

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Revolution Rail CEO Rob Harte (left) and Rocketcup Coffee CEO Tom Cullen ride a rail bike along railroad tracks of the former Erie Railroad near Cattaraugus Thursday. There will be pop-up rail bike rides on the next three weekends in Cattaraugus.

RocketCup Revolution Rail Fest to feature pop-up rail bike rides

October 2, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star CATTARAUGUS — It’s a Pop-Up Weekend for Revolution Rail and

(Rick Miller/Olean Star) Jason Casper, president and program manager of the West Valley Cleanup Alliance, updates the Cattaraugus County Board of Health on cleanup at the West Valley Demonstration Project on Wednesday.

New company to oversee Phase 1B cleanup of West Valley Demonstration Project

October 2, 2025

By RICK MILLER Olean Star OLEAN — Earlier this year, after three years of painstaking