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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...

Business News, News, NY State News

Siemens’ Horseheads site chosen for factory to build high-speed trains

Sep 10, 2024

HORSEHEADS — Trains for what is being called the nation’s first true high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area will be built at ...

News, Western New York

Freight locomotive flattens garage at home in Niagara Falls

Jul 22, 2024

NIAGARA FALLS (AP) — A freight locomotive ran off the end of its track and smashed into the side of a garage Monday at a home in the city of Niagara F...

NY State News

Rail’s rebound: Amtrak ridership at 75 percent of pre-pandemic levels in New York

EMILIE MUNSON Times Union, Albany

Dec 27, 2022

PLATTSBURGH (TNS) — Again this year there was no crush of suitcase-dragging, homebound college students gathered on the platform outside the historic ...

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State & Union: Turning back the clock on Olean

Aug 29, 2022

From the end of the largest rail strike to a good lunch for 17 cents thanks to Uncle Sam, from new homes for Agnes victims to a friendly football wage...

Cattaraugus County News

Salamanca teachers, more train for commercial drone test

Olean Times Herald staff

Jul 27, 2021

SALAMANCA — Educators, servicemen and retired hobbyists have spent 27 hours going through rigorous adult education drone training in preparation for t...

Cattaraugus County News, Local News, News

State & Union: Looking back on history of Hinsdale in its 200th year

Aug 03, 2020

The Town of Hinsdale had planned to mark its bicentennial with several events this year — and then the coronavirus pandemic struck. Most activities th...

Allegany County News, Business News

Federal agency OKs move of high-speed train from Hornell to Colo. for testing

Jan 22, 2020

HORNELL — The Federal Railroad Administration has signed off on Amtrak’s permit application for a one-time movement of its high-speed train from the H...

Cattaraugus County News, Local News, News, ...

State & Union: Did the Liberty Bell Express pass through here?

Apr 28, 2019

Phil Blair of Allegany stopped into the newsroom the other day with an April 2017 copy of Smithsonian magazine, which included an article on a 1915 na...

Cattaraugus County News, Here And Now, Local News, ...

WWII vet gets honored, rides train for 93rd birthday

TOM DINKI, Olean Times Herald

Aug 19, 2017

OLEAN — Charlie Brown has had what he calls “an interesting life.” The Westons Mills great-grandfather received five Battle Stars for his service in W...

Cattaraugus County News, Here And Now, Local News, ...

State and Union: Cloud 9 is latest Santa Claus Lane ornament

Jul 29, 2017

Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce has unveiled its newest Santa Claus Lane ornament, a depiction of the former Cloud 9 Park, an amusement park on...

Local News, News

Newspaper hawkers will be out early Friday for United Way

Jun 08, 2017

Good news will be on the streets Friday morning, as hundreds of volunteers with the United Ways in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties will be at major ...

Cattaraugus County News, News, Western New York

IDA won’t contribute to rail study for Buffalo-to-Jamestown line

RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald

Feb 03, 2017

ELLICOTTVILLE — The Cattaraugus County Industrial Development Agency’s board of directors voted Wednesday to not participate financially in a study fo...