In the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel Saturday, and the Israeli response, more than 2,200 people have died on both sides, 22 of them Americans. Seventeen American remain unaccounted for. …
Soon, maybe, at a Homer near you: a cannabis dispensary. State law requires businesses to notify the local municipality 30 days before filing for their dispensary licenses with the state, which …
Just a couple of months after a convenience store closed on Groton Avenue in Cortland, a pair of Cortland entrepreneurs plans to open another across the street. Jeffrey and Pimjai Constantino …
Jen Fuller felt alone running her salon in her little corner of Homer – until another women-owned business opened up next door. Then another. Then one across the street. Soon, another will …
Tori Ideman faced a choice right after high school: Stay in Moravia, where people knew her as a boy before she began transitioning; or move to Indiana, where her father lived. Her parents …
Seven-year-old Felix Leroux-Caminiti would like to renovate the Circus House in Homer, making it accessible to the public, but proposed renovations for the village of Homer’s $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative would turn the building into private office space and apartments.
A local law passed Tuesday night by the Cortland Common Council creates a $35 fee for parking in municipal lots overnight without a valid residential permit. On Sept. 19, the council passed a …
After moving from the Netherlands to Homer in 2010, Martsje Vanderschaaf-Riehlman found herself looking for community. She found it at Phillips Free Library, and more than 10 years later, she’s …
DRYDEN — After a full day at school, Dryden high schoolers Kate Lee and Mckenna Crocker would go to the Dryden Climate Smart Task Force and vote on environmental decisions in their community. …
For first-generation graduate Jahlil Granum, college was a no-brainer. But for some students, going to college isn’t on the map. College enrollment has declined nationally by 9.6% …
A state judge Thursday temporarily blocked the Cortland County Legislature from switching county retirees’ Medicare plan to a private plan, pending further litigation. State Supreme Court …
Andrew Holden, an employee of Power and Construction Group, based in Scottsville, Monroe County, installs temporary lights Thursday afternoon along Main Street in Cortland near Clinton Avenue for the …
A man accused of attempted murder is trying to get evidence suppressed, as his attorney believes it was an illegal search. Tyshawn Pittman, 37, was charged in December with attempted …
Before the Center for the Arts of Homer was a church, it housed a coffin maker, who died when the building caught fire. His remains were never found. What remains? Ashes? Ghosts? Something spooky?
A year-round farmer’s market would bring a second grocery store to the village of Homer, but first, the project needs backing from the Downtown Revitalization Initiative. “We would …
‘We’re back’ By MARGARET MELLOTT Staff Reporter mmellott@cortlandstandard.com After three years with no Homer WinterFest, …
The Interfaith Center at SUNY Cortland has been rattling around inside too much space for too long, so it has sold its building and will move into space across the street. The building at …
Incumbent Cortland Mayor Scott Steve will face his challenger, Luke Stevenson, in the only forum the League of Women Voters will have this year, because so few candidates responded to a request to …
DRYDEN – By October of next year, Dryden will have 82 new high-end apartments in Dryden. Ground will break in October on three townhouses at the vacant lot located at 1061 Dryden Road in …
Cortlandville voters will decide in November whether to reduce town court to one part-time justice, even though the caseload now is greater than when the town created the second justice position in …
The Alvena Avenue entrance to Guthrie Cortland Medical Center in Cortland will be closed to traffic for parts of the afternoons on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to allow for work on a project to …
It’s not the number of people in the poll, it’s the number of people at the PumpkinFest that’s important, but for the second time in less than five years, a USA Today readers poll has put the Great Cortland Pumpkinfest among the top 10 fall festivals in America.
Increasing costs and changes in court procedures that make the system more efficient were cited by Cortlandville Town Supervisor Tom Williams to justify a plan to eliminate one of two part-time town …
