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Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break

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...

Local Columnists, Opinion

In face of evil, right is always right

ARTHUR G. AUSTIN JR. Special to Olean Times Herald

Mar 23, 2022

With the situation in Ukraine unfolding every day, not a day goes by that someone doesn’t ask my opinion as a retired U.S. Army general officer. It’s ...

Germany makes historic shift on weapons policy to ship Ukraine arms

ARNE DELFS and MILDA SEPUTYTE Bloomberg News

Feb 26, 2022

BERLIN (TNS) — Germany upended years of policy and agreed to supply Kyiv with weapons and consider ways to shut out Russia from the SWIFT financial me...

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

America’s worst ally

RICH LOWRY

Jan 26, 2022

President Joe Biden’s press conference last week was atrocious, but one of his worst missteps amounted to telling the truth about Germany, if not by n...

Football, Sports

Fuentes continues to live out gridiron dream in Germany

Aug 21, 2021

STRAUBING, Germany — He’d always dreamt of a different kind of life adventure. He’d always wanted to continue his football career, to keep playing the...

Local News, News

State & Union: Turn those clocks ahead Saturday night

Mar 12, 2021

Daylight Saving Time 2021 will start on Sunday at 2 a.m., which means at bedtime the night before, most people will “spring ahead” and set their clock...

Local News, News

State & Union: V-E Day was 75 years ago today

May 08, 2020

Victory in Europe. At 6 p.m. on May 8, 1945, Germany officially surrendered to the Allies. It was cause for relief and satisfaction that a heinous foe...

Leters to the Editor

Letter: Rhetoric evoking Nazis is unacceptable

Mar 10, 2020

It is safe to say that the state of our country can be described as divided. I would take it one step further and categorize our country as fractured....

Local News, News

Director to speak at Eldred WWII Museum Thursday

Nov 18, 2019

ELDRED, Pa. — The Eldred WWII Museum will be hosting writer and director Mark Frederick at 7 p.m. Thursday. Frederick will discuss his travels to the ...

Todd Martens: In the Trump era, can videogames about killing Nazis be just ‘for fun’?

Todd Martens Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Aug 23, 2019

Part history lesson, part warning that history may repeat itself, the upcoming strategy game “Through the Darkest of Times” is driven by news headline...

Cattaraugus County News, Local News, News

State & Union: Olean rabbi returned to Germany to dedicate Jewish memorial

Nov 28, 2018

In 1965, Dr. Kurt L. Metzger, rabbi of Temple B’Nai Israel in Olean, was visiting Landau in what was then West Germany, where he had served as the las...

Cattaraugus County News, Local News, News

Rep. Tom Reed supports Trump’s ‘disruptive style’ at NATO

RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald

Jul 12, 2018

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed on Wednesday said he supported President Donald Trump’s apparent antagonistic actions toward European leaders as North Atlantic Tre...

Commentary, Nation World

Lessons of Pearl Harbor and an ‘end to illusions’

WILLIAM INBODEN

Dec 07, 2016

(TNS) As we remember and mourn those servicemen and women who died when Imperial Japan launched a surprise attack on the American military installatio...