By BOB CLARK bclark@oleantimesherald.com    December 10, 2025 The 2025 cohort poses with dignitaries during the Laine Business Accelerator Showcase on Tuesday at Cutco Theater in Olean OLEAN — The fifth round of businesses graduated from the Laine Business Accelerator on Tuesday with the annual entrepreneurial showcase. Held at Cutco Theater, the heads of 1907 Wax, Adored Boards, Fuller’s Fabrication, MDA Consulting Engineers, Olean Carpet Cleaning, Pine Hill Cattle Company, Preston Personal...

By JOHN BARTIMOLE Special to Olean Times Herald | December 5, 2025 OLEAN — The eight businesses from the 2025 Laine Business Accelerator program will make their presentations at the Fifth Annual LBA Community Showcase at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Jamestown Community College’s Cutco Theater at 305 N. Barry St. The event is free and open to the public and is followed by a reception at the JCC Student Union, located a short walk across the JCC campus. The eight businesses are 1907 Wax, Adored Boards,...

By JOHN BARTIMOLE Special to Olean Times Herald | November 29, 2025 (Editor’s note: This is the eighth and final feature in a series spotlighting the businesses making up the 2025 Laine Business Accelerator cohort. The businesses will be highlighted at the 2025 Community Showcase, which starts at 6 p.m. Dec. 9 in the Cutco Theater on Jamestown Community College’s Cattaraugus County Campus in Olean. ) ALLEGANY — “Be yourself,” Oscar Wilde once wrote. “Everyone else is taken.” A version of that...