By JOHN BARTIMOLE October 3, 2026 CUBA — Aaron and Carly Santangelo are living proof that hundreds of miles and different passions are no match for fate. The owners of Bellhurst Farm in Cuba, the couple have crafted a surging business featuring dairy goats, transforming a once-dormant fifth-generation family farm into one that now boasts a lineup of products made with pasteurized goat milk cheese. Carly’s involvement with dairy goats began at age 7 in her first registered dai

By JOHN BARTIMOLE September 26, 2026 OLEAN — Karan Turnquist’s career road map may have included many stops, twists and turns, but it always has had the same unwavering destination: to help people, especially children and their parents. And with the opening of her own business, Mindful State Therapy Services, she has more than arrived where she was always destined to be. Turnquist, who ironically started out as a literature major in college, said her first experience with a c

By JOHN BARTIMOLE August 15, 2026 OLEAN — Olean Business Development Corporation announced the selection of eight businesses for the sixth cohort of its signature program, the Laine Business Accelerator, continuing the entrepreneurial legacy of Erick Laine, former CEO of Cutco Corporation. The 2026 cohort brings together eight businesses representing a diverse range of industries from across the region. Each participating business will receive $5,000 in seed funding and take