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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For GOP, how big a check to Ukraine?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Mar 01, 2023
As the war in Ukraine begins its second year, a new Fox News poll shows Americans divided nearly down the middle over how much and how long the United...
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Depression doesn’t have to stop or kill John Fetterman
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JEFFERY MERRITT Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Feb 28, 2023
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I rarely feel connected to politicians, regardless of their party or platform. Like the blue-collar people I grew up with, I just d...
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Crypto fallout is far bigger than FTX
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 27, 2023
FTX was supposed to be a different kind of crypto currency exchange. Sure it was. It was new and safe and secure — really — and would allow even relat...
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The sad state of adolescence
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
GENE LYONS 
Feb 27, 2023
To hear people tell it, the kids are definitely not all right. According to The Washington Post, there’s “a crisis in American girlhood.” To Derek Tho...
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The absurd cleansing of Roald Dahl’s work
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 26, 2023
Like the rest of the sane universe, we couldn’t believe the gall of PuffinU.K.when word came out that the publishing house and theRoald Dahl Story Co....
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Second and third order effects for civil rights
Local Columnists, Opinion
ARTHUR G. AUSTIN JR. Special to Olean Times Herald 
Feb 26, 2023
The United States military has always been a test bed for social policies in American society. Regardless of the political or social climate throughou...
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GOP can’t decide if it’s for Ukraine or not
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JACKIE CALMES Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — For years Joe Biden has told audiences, “This is not your father’s Republican Party.” He’s right. And perhaps nothing better illust...
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Albany’s minimum-wage bidding war
New York, Opinion
Feb 24, 2023
It’s a bidding war in Albany when it comes to boosting the state’s minimum wage — with the needs of New York’s economy, and of the vast illegal-migran...
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On debt limit, time to end business as usual
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
PAUL WINFREE Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2023
President Joe Biden has called for an increase in the debt ceiling. To avoid another fight with Congress on the issue ahead of the 2024 elections, he ...
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The John Fetterman dilemma
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Feb 23, 2023
John Fetterman was sworn in as senator from Pennsylvania on Jan. 3. On Feb. 8, after 36 days in office, Fetterman was admitted to George Washington Un...
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Fox put profits over the truth
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 23, 2023
The evidence in a recent 159-page filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its lawsuit against Fox News for its role in 2020 election disinformation is so...
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Fears come in many varieties
Local Columnists, Opinion
DEB WUETHRICH - Special to Olean Times Herald 
Feb 22, 2023
I saw a spider in the cellar the other day when I went down to run the washer. It was a BIG spider and quick. Too quick for me. The sighting shattered...
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Biden ignores the ‘Deplorables’ in Ohio
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Feb 22, 2023
BOSTON (TNS) — If you want to know what disenfranchised America looks like, look no further than East Palestine, Ohio. Poor, sick, forgotten. Left out...
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We should learn from Ohio’s train disaster
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
Feb 21, 2023
If things had gone a bit differently, the chemicals on the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, could have exploded, killing people on the spo...
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EV ads in Super Bowl — an inconvenient history
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LARRY BEHRENS 
Feb 21, 2023
With an audience north of 100 million viewers, the Super Bowl is the most watched television event in the United States every year. As the game within...
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