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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...

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Trump withdraws Stefanik nomination for UN ambassador, citing tight GOP House margin

FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press

Mar 27, 2025

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was pulling New York Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the Unit...

Commentary, Nation World

Israel vote proves UN as irrelevant as a campus protest

DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal

Sep 25, 2024

WASHINGTON (TNS) —Public opinion on theOct. 7attacks that killed 1,200 inIsraelhas flipped among Gazans, according to a recent poll by thePalestinian ...

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

Ozone layer good news for us all

Jan 13, 2023

There’s good news about climate change — for a change. A United Nations study shows that steps to repair the Earth’s ozone layer are working. These ar...

News

Most of the world lines up against Moscow, attacks intensify

JIM HEINTZ, YURAS KARMANAU, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press

Mar 02, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine — Most of the world lined up against Moscow in the United Nations on Wednesday to demand it withdraw from Ukraine, as invading Russian f...

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

The UN combats Holocaust denial

Jan 24, 2022

Israel became the United Nations’ 59th member on May 11, 1949. In the seven decades since, the General Assembly, now numbering 193 countries, has pass...

Letters To Editor

Free the world of nuclear weapons

Aug 11, 2021

Seeing the first atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima, Japan, 76 years ago should have been the end of nuclear warfare. How could one look at the devastation...