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Cortland school board sets budget schedule for 2025-26

The Cortland Enlarged City School District Board of Education learned Tuesday night about the schedule for developing and putting to a vote the budget for the 2025-26 school spending plan, from …

Environmental issue may delay 1 housing project, help another

That an underground tank has been discovered at the site on Homer Avenue in Cortland of a proposed $24 million housing complex for income-restricted tenants can be a hurdle, or a help. It depends on …

LANSING — Lansgingville Road from Jerry Smith Road to the Tompkins County line will remain closed Wednesday for repaving, the Tompkins County Highway Department announced Tuesday. The …

VARNA — The Varna Volunteer Fire Co. has been named a winner of the 2024 New York State Innovation Award for Organizational Innovation in Emergency Medical Services. The award, from the …

The deadline is Friday for farmers to request technical and financial assistance in incorporating cover crops into their cropping systems is, the the Cortland County Soil and Water Conservation …

The Heterodox Dragons, BridgeCortland and SUNY Cortland’s Barbara A. Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement will present a conversation Sept. 26 on “Who needs safe spaces …

The Cortland Enlarged City School District will have a ceremony opening its new turf at Moiseichik Field immediately following the girls varsity field hockey game Thursday. The game starts at 5 p.m. …

The Homer Central School Board of Education will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Homer Training and Education Center.

Opioid overdose deaths drop — again

The number deaths attributed to opioid overdoses in Cortland County declined in 2023, compared to the previous year — the second consecutive year of declines — and leaders of two local …

The Cortland Common Council will discuss Tuesday setting a public hearing to amend its law over waste collection and recycling. The hearing, if the resolution is adopted, would be 6 p.m. Oct. 1 …

Students at Cortland High School will host Chalk the Walk, Have the Talk this week regarding suicide prevention. Each day, Students Against Destructive Decisions participants will have morning …

Albright Grange in East Homer will have a spaghetti and meatballs dinner starting 5 p.m. Saturday. The menu includes spaghetti and homemade meatballs, tossed salad, Italian bread, brownies with …

Homer to consider LED signs later this month

Homer village leaders will consider later this month a draft law governing LED signs in the village, even as a contract to allow them outside two schools in the village is about to expire. The …

Ladies Night invites women to pamper themselves in Dryden

DRYDEN – At Ladies’ Night, you can build-a-bouquet, get a feather put in your hair, get a massage and your usual bagel and coffee. The second annual Ladies’ Night will be …

Chefs Take a Stand Oct. 3

Will the cacio y pepe beat the Korean burger slider? Will the cowboy bean casserole do better than the potato latkes? Will the pumpkin pudding whallop the glazed tofu bites? Will the rivalries lead …

Four greater Cortland area libraries will get state grants as members of the Finger Lakes Library System, which Assembly Member Anna Kelles (D-Freeville) will announce Thursday in Groton. The …

Cayuga Health’s Sept. 7 gala in Ithaca raised more than $180,000 for the Cayuga Medical Center Foundation’s fundraising campaign, organizers announced. The event drew more than 500 …

Dwyer Park supporters seek stricter rule enforcement

Supporters of a park in northern Cortland County have met with county lawmakers recently to discuss ways of upgrading the park, and of policing the behavior of some of the people who use it. …

LANSING — Lansgingville Road from Jerry Smith Road to the Tompkins County line will be closed Monday and Tuesday for repaving, the Tompkins County Highway Department announced. The work …

Homer residents continue to oppose billboards

More than a dozen Homer residents brought their darkskyhomer.org signs to the town board meeting Wednesday. When there weren’t enough seats for the attendees, they stood, or sat on the floor. …

McGraw marks 9/11 as village honors native lost to the attack

The participants were a bit fewer than other ceremonies, the monument perhaps a bit smaller, but the sentiments were just as large Wednesday at McGraw’s first commemoration of the anniversary …

Divas take to the road for breast cancer awareness

Raising awareness for breast cancer can look a lot of different ways. For a group of Cortland women, it looks like a string of motorcycles riding across Central New York. The all-female …

Mini mule goes on hoof-about

Hazel McAllister has been searching for more than two weeks for her mini mule, which escaped from her land on Babcock Hollow Road in Harford with his companion, who was found a day later. …

Hollenbeck’s Cider Mill will open for the season Saturday, its website reports. The mill, marking its 92nd season, will have apple and Dutch apple pies, as well as pumpkin. Others will be …

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