Fall is here — think apple cider, doughnuts, pumpkins and most important the long drives through Central New York to see the beautiful, vibrant foliage.The reds and oranges of oaks and maples, …
The wind was brisk, but the sky was blue and the hills dappled in yellows and orange as people descended on Anderson’s Farm Market to pick pumpkins, bowl with apples and shop at vendors at the …
Come for the corn maze. Stay for the robotic cow milking. Trinity Valley’s corn maze on Route 13 in Truxton helps people get lost for an hour or two, but on the other side is a chance to see …
Four Kune Kune pigs sat squealing in a small fenced enclosure as Marathon students as Faith Baker told the pigs’ story. “The Kune Kune are natural grazers,” said Baker, a …
With the help of state grants, three Cortland County farmers hope to reduce their environmental effect and prepare for increasingly turbulent weather driven by climate change. Gov. Kathy …
SPECIAL CONTESTS Tree ID: 4-H: Ruby Metcalf FFA: Hunter Bennett, Maddy Bennett, Addison Brown, Clara Currie, Sidney Glover, Kaylee Muters. 4-H Jr. Iron Chef: Team Results: 1st — The …
People told Cortland County Legislator Linda Jones recently they worried that trees marked with paint at Dwyer Memorial Park in Little York were destined for removal. They are. But there's …
PROMOTION OF DAIRY & LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS Promotions: Blue ribbon to Dairy Dreamers 4-H Club HORTICULTURE RESULTS WINDOW BOXES AND CONTAINERS: Cloverbuds: Leah Bottle, Luca Cox, Weston …
Seven DeRuyter Middle School sixth-graders stood in a row Friday morning, their right feet on a long 4- by 4-inch wide wooden post, their left feet on a similar post parallel to the first. They …
DAIRY CATTLE BREEDS Cloverbud Classes: Spring Calf (March 2 - April 3, 2022) Ayrshire: 1st Rhett Petri Holstein: 1st Jamie Mendez-DelaCruz, 2nd Blake Sherman, 3rd Troy Sherman, 4th Johnathon Lawton, …
They came to fight. They came dressed as woodchucks. Thirty years later, the people who stopped the state and federal governments from placing a low-level radioactive waste facility in Taylor …
Most of this summer has been hot and dry and, with that type of weather, the majority of crops are being harvested now. Agricultural fields tend to look barren, with plenty of bare soil and crop …
DAIRY CATTLE SHOWPreliminary Showmanship:Ages 16 andolder: Blue ribbons to Caleigh Stone, Hannah Slade, Evan Butts, Sophia Wilbur, Mason Slade, Aleta Gross, Marah Ripley. Red ribbons to Sierra …
ZUCCHINI CAR RACE:Ages 5-8: Jacob Wheeler, Zander Stevens, Carley Schiff, Shelby Scanlon, Carter Stone, Sterling Scanlon, Jorian Phelps, Morgan Keith, Carter Myrto and Lyla Bottle. Top Winners: …
While a state proposal moves forward to lower the threshold at which farmers must pay overtime to workers, the labor market has already been pressuring the industry to move in that direction, a …
Hollenbeck's Cider Mill in Virgil products up to six tons of apple pomace a week, and it's free for the taking, the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cortland County has announced. You do, however, …
The first phase of a project by the Cortland County Industrial Development Agency to clean the former Apex site in Cortland was completed Wednesday, the IDA reported.
According to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the Painted Turtle is the most common fresh water turtle species in New York. Adults can vary in length between 5 to 10 inches, …
A spike in milk prices paid to farmers in the past year — after years of depressed payments — is allowing them to pay off debt from the lean times, catch up on deferred maintenance and …
Employees of Sherman Farm in Dryden were gathering freshly cut hay Thursday afternoon in a field off Route 13. It was a far cry from a month ago when abnormally dry weather rendered hay useless …
SYRACUSE — Old Chatham Creamery of Groton won gold medals at the New York State Fair for its plain yogurt and flavored natural cheese, Agriculture and Markets Commissioner Richard A. Ball …
Allan Stauber was historically skeptical of a plan to run pipes from the Cortland County Landfill, through McGraw, then to Cortland to treat the landfill's leachate. He recently shifted his …
Gus Barn at Lime Hollow Nature Center in Cortlandville will reopen next month as BOCES classroom space following a nearly four-month renovation funded, in part, with $100,000 in American Rescue Plan …
They’re in Onondaga County. And Tompkins. Broome, too. And if the state has called for the immediate stomping of any Spotted Lanternfly you might encounter, they’re not in Cortland County – yet.
Some kids spend summer vacation at the park, or swimming, or vegetating in front of the video game device trying to forget a year’s worth of learning. Christopher Slade spent his summer in the …
