Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break
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By JIM ECKSTROM jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...

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Who chose new speaker, Republicans or Trump?
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FRANCIS WILKINSON Bloomberg Opinion 
Oct 26, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The chaos of October has brought the House GOP back to where it began: Some guy is once again speaker of the House. His name is, fo...
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Trump’s lead and GOP decision-making
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BYRON YORK 
Oct 25, 2023
Former President Donald Trump’s support now stands at 59% among Republican voters nationwide in the 2024 presidential nomination race. His lead over F...
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Biden balancing act is only choice
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ROBIN ABCARIAN Los Angeles Times 
Oct 24, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Joe Biden’s voice may be more of a whisper than a roar these days, but on Thursday night, he was as loud and strong as he...
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The shameful gag order on Donald Trump
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RICH LOWRY 
Oct 24, 2023
If you’ve always thought that federal judges ought to determine what presidential candidates can and can’t say about political matters, you should lov...
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Sidney Powell guilty of lying to America
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Oct 24, 2023
Last week, attorney Sidney Powell pleaded guilty in Georgia to charges related to her role in the bizarre scheme to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidenti...
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Revisit NY’s Raise the Age law
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Oct 23, 2023
If you hear the same complaint enough, maybe it’s time to take it seriously and act on it. Last week, state legislators heard the same complaint again...
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No speaker? No problem
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NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Oct 23, 2023
You see a lot of “news” stories and editorials these days lamenting the “chaos” infesting the House of Representatives, which is without a speaker and...
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GOP infighting puts nation on hold
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Oct 22, 2023
Chaos among Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives has paralyzed the federal government, sending shockwaves across the country. Am...
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Olean Library more than books for teens, young adults
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MICHELLE LA VOIE Special to Olean Times Herald 
Oct 21, 2023
OLEAN — Walking into the Olean Public Library, the first thing you probably notice is the smell of books. The second thing is most likely the “Inchy” ...
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‘I feel only empathy and pain’
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JESSICA KUNTZ Los Angeles Times (TNS) 
Oct 20, 2023
During the two years I lived in Israel serving as a junior U.S. diplomat, I used many words to describe the country that I somewhat reluctantly called...
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New York dazed and confused on legal weed
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Oct 20, 2023
In yet a new dysfunctional turn in New York’s rollout of legal cannabis sales, city community boards now face a mad rush of applicants for OKs to open...
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The superpower that can’t arm itself
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RICH LOWRY 
Oct 20, 2023
No matter how much we’d like to believe in the inevitably of human progress and the spread of enlightened norms, we’ve learned the past couple of year...
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You call this transparency in New York?
Commentary, New York
Oct 19, 2023
Imagine one state agency deliberately obstructing the work of another in order to shield itself from scrutiny. If that’s how Gov. Kathy Hochul’s admin...
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Inflation not so bad? Don’t buy it
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E.J. ANTONI 
Oct 19, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — “The war on inflation is over,” economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist, wrote recently on X/Twitter. “We won, at very l...
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