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(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

(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

Pollock: Good and sad news on high school hoops; remembering boxing’s grillmaster

March 25, 2025

A column by CHUCK POLLOCK, Senior Sports Columnist Some thoughts

Denise Marie Winsor-Booth

March 25, 2025

Denise Marie Winsor-Booth, age 50, passed away in her home

Great Lakes Cheese Co. makes first cheese at Franklinville plant

November 29, 2024

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

November 29, 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,

Freya Rose Lopus

November 29, 2024

May 8, 1979 – October 21, 2024 Freya Rose Lopus, 45, of Bradford passed away Oct. 21, 2024, at her home. She was born May 8, 1979, in Bradford, a

Walter M. Makin

November 29, 2024

December 20, 1936 – November 24, 2024 Walter M. Makin, 87, of Bradford, passed away on Sunday, November 24, 2024 at UPMC Hamot, Erie. He was born on December 20,