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Where green begets green(backs)

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.

Two opinions, a mile apart

Surrounded by a proposed 90-megawatt solar project, a mile apart, two men living on the same road have different views of the project. The 90-megawatt project by EDF Renewables Development LLC …

Cafe’s owner to rebuild

Scott Reilly, owner of Reilly’s Cafe in Marathon, said he plans to rebuild the diner damaged in a fire last month, a process he hopes will take only a couple months. Reilly said on …

Blaze damages cafe

Two cats were rescued, and no injuries were reported in a fire Wednesday morning that heavily damaged Reilly’s Cafe on Main Street in the village of Marathon. Firefighters extinguished the …

Females flourish in agriculture

Maryrose Livingston was 9 years old on a trip to Ireland with her family when she realized she wanted to become a farmer. “I saw a guy milk a cow and I just thought that was the coolest …

Enjoying the dog days

Tammy Barrows-Goddard wanted to remember her chocolate lab, Josie, in a special way. When the dog died, the Cortland woman started a canine comfort service – called “Josie’s …

‘It affects everything’

As prices rise for seemingly all consumer products, the added costs are putting pressure on business owners and residents in the greater Cortland area. The annual inflation rate was 8.3% in …

Flower shop’s roots run deep

A crowd gathered Tuesday outside Arnold’s Florist on Cayuga Street in Homer to commemorate a 130-year tradition that continues to bloom to this day. A blue marker had been erected along …

Grad weekend a boon

On a warm, sunny Saturday in the city of Cortland, Main Street was filled with visitors for SUNY Cortland graduation weekend Restaurants such as Hairy Tony’s, Brix pizza place, Bru 64 and …

Opportunity for growth

Landscaping and greenhouses in the greater Cortland area are full of blooming flowers and other plants this spring, and while they are seeing more business, their costs are also growing. …

Imagination takes flight

Entering the Cortland Corset Building is reminiscent of entering a superhero hideout in the comic books. The creaking floors that sound hollow to walk across and the pungent smell of incense from …

Health care as it's happening

All Wanda Rawson and her crew at Guthrie Cortland Medical Center wanted to do was walk into a patient's room and get a meal order, maybe make the stay just a little more pleasant. But they couldn't. Patients were isolated: COVID-19.

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