Farmers market farmers face enough challenges: Varmints got Joan Franklin’s first broccoli crop this year; she missed a week of picking and lost hundreds of pounds of summer and pattypan …
Fred Forbes Sr. drove his gray Dodge pickup truck up a Cortlandville hill, past fields of soybeans and corn, climbing as the path dissolved from asphalt to dirt, then nothing more than …
A drought watch was issued Friday for 21 counties in the state — including Cayuga, Tompkins and Onondaga counties — at the direction of Gov. Kathy Hochul, her office announced. …
Branden Brown, the owner of Trinity Valley Dairy in Homer, is considering providing his dairy products to children at schools in Cortland County to support a farm-to-school program. “I mean, …
Cortland County’s beech trees are under threat from a largely unknown disease, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation and forestry experts. Beech Leaf Disease has …
NILES — The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Tuesday it has completed a $1.27 million project to improve access to the Carpenter Falls Unique Area in …
The Finger Lakes Trail stretches nearly 1,000 miles across New York State, and it may just get few more in Harford. Alex Gonzalez and his wife, Michele are looking to construct the first new …
JAMESVILLE — Assembly Member John Lemondes announced a bill Wednesday to require New York public schools to increase agriculture-related instruction in an effort to help students understand …
The village of Homer and the town of Cortlandville are promoting a private company’s solar power project, which the municipalities partnered with separately.
Courtney Harrington has two children who attend Truxton Academy Charter School -- both Hunter and Jessa Harrington will be in third grade this fall. That's why, after the founding head of School …
Scott Steve looked over the side of the rail on Interstate 81 and wondered. The night, June 16, was dark, but he knew the tractor-trailer tipped on the bridge was carrying an herbicide suspected of …
DRYDEN – Electric heat pumps, energy efficient electrofits and a fuel efficient vehicle policy are on a list of actions the town of Dryden hopes to take to combat climate change by reducing …
Rats scurry through the 9-acre former industrial site along River and Cleveland streets in the city of Cortland. Police moved two homeless people living there on Thursday. Cortland Mayor Scott …
Jayne Farkas of McGraw was caught between a petroleum-powered car and an electric one. “The gas price is ridiculous,” she said Monday at the Price Chopper supermarket parking lot on Route 13 in Cortlandville. “But electric cars are expensive.” The town of Cortlandville decided to install electric charging stations at multiple spots, but the timing of the installation remains undecided, said town Supervisor Tom Williams.
A cloud of dust obscured the vision of the audience as young Western and English horseback riders warmed up in the corral shortly before noon Saturday. The sound of horses trotting and the sight of kids bobbing up and down on their saddles signaled the start of the Open Horse Show at the Cortland County Junior Fair.
Seven Valleys Food Rescue opened the doors Tuesday to its storage and distribution center on Homer Avenue in Cortland to show supporters and community leaders the progress made to date. The …
An exhibit will be on display in the 4-H Youth Building during the Cortland County Junior Fair through Saturday to mark 50 years of the Robert P. Blatchley Cortland County 4-H Foundation supporting …
For Alice Tylutki of Corltand, the competition goes beyond a well-socialized animal, a glossy coat or clear eyes. She's competing to become the fair queen as the Cortland County Junior Fair and that …
TULLY — More than 1,000 acres that once belonged to the Onondaga Nation in Tully will be returned to the Onondagas under an agreement the Onondagas, the federal Department of the Interior and …
Many lakes and ponds are scattered across New York. Slow-moving glaciers carved the landscape as they advanced across New York. As they retreated, they left behind lakes of various shapes and sizes. …
Some people, when they visit a foreign land, want to tour the sites, experience the food and entertainment, immerse themselves in the culture. Fermin Villar visited farms. In Dryden.
The state is investigating a large fish kill in the Tioughnioga River downstream as far as Marathon from the site of a June 16 tractor-trailer crash in Cortland that spilled 750 gallons of herbicide into the river, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Due to the heat the past few weeks, many people might believe summer has long since arrived. However, the summer solstice is the true marker of summer’s arrival, and that came just at 5:14 a.m. Tuesday.
Carla Plunkett kept a sweatshirt on Saturday as an unseasonably cold day chilled the Cortland City Farmers Market. The chill kept customers away, Plunkett said – in fact, other vendors left early, too. But it was only the second Saturday this season the market was open at a new location, in front of Grace and Holy Spirit Episcopal Church on Court Street. She expected the sales, like the season, will warm up.
