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Housing market returns to normal after boom

Steve DiPaolo and his family navigated a rapidly changing housing market over two years, seeking a house to return to their hometown. They closed on it Wednesday. It’s in Cortlandville. …

Vets to repair WWI memorial

The engraving around the circular white limestone World War I memorial in Courthouse Park in Cortland reads “Lest we forget Cortland County’s sons and daughters who served in the World …

Pavilion honors patron of play

For decades, if kids could play, Bob SanJule helped make it happen as chairman of the city Youth Advisory Commission. Two years after his death, his family has donated a pavilion at Suggett Park in …

Parker School in limbo after child-care project collapses

The city of Cortland will study its options for the former Parker Elementary School after two groups planning to convert the building to a child-care center announced they are dropping their project due to …

Parker project dies

A plan to re-purpose the former Parker Elementary School in Cortland as a child-care facility operated by CAPCO and the YWCA of Cortland has died, organizers announced Tuesday. "All three partners …

The 2023 budget challenge

Municipalities are finally getting beyond the uncertainty and financial challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years as they draft their 2023 budgets. Still, they feel the pressure of …

Committee mum on Parker School project

The Parker School Committee, which has been planning a project to convert the former school into a child care center, met behind closed doors Monday and declined afterward to comment on their …

Taylor activists reunite after 30 years

They ate; they sang; they laughed; they cried; and they remembered the fight that changed their lives and homes. The Cortland County Historical Society had its Dumpbusters Reunion Saturday morning for participants and supporters of the Taylor low-level radioactive waste dumping protests to celebrate 30 years since a Supreme Court victory pivotal to keeping the waste out of Cortland County.

Molinaro visits downtown Cortland

Business owners on Cortland’s Main Street told Congressional nominee Marc Molinaro of their problems Friday: difficulties hiring, child-care problems and more. Molinaro, a Republican and …

Cortland folks show they care

Many hands make light work. United Way for Cortland County had its 27th annual Day of Caring Wednesday, welcoming county residents from all walks of life to beautify and restore community …

Unexpected obstacles slow Clinton Ave. rebuild

Things that hold up reconstruction of Clinton Avenue in Cortland: electrical ducts where nobody expected them; a lot of groundwater near the railroad tracks; and the tour bus weaving its way along a …

City plans hearing today on city manager job

The Cortland City Common Council plans to set a public hearing tonight to create a city manager position that would oversee the daily operation of the city. The vote comes five days after the …

Fuel, other costs, pile up on municipalities

The Cortlandville Town Highway Garage is a microcosm of many of the nation's economic hardships, where the cost of truck tires has doubled, rising fuel costs slashed seasonal road work and jobs go …

Seedstock sprouts again after hiatus

The sun shone down Saturday afternoon as musicians on stage entertained crowds gathered on a grassy hillside behind a Cortlandville house as the Seedstock music festival resumed after a two-year …

The woodchucks win

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 …

Marathon's Union Fair uses the past to inspire the future

The town of Marathon hopes to inspire its next generation by exploring its distant past. Marathon had its annual 1890 Union Fair Saturday, celebrating its rural and agricultural history with …

The cemetery up the hill

Hidden above McGraw High School, just beyond the baseball diamond, is a piece of national history. In 1848, McGraw baptists founded New York Central College as the America’s first …

Never forgotten

City creates New Year's event despite First Light

The city will host a New Year's Eve celebration this year, creating a new version of an event canceled for the past two years during the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision drew objections from Tim …

Downtown businesses learn to adjust to construction

Sandro Mironti has learned to adjust: the noise of heavy equipment; the difficulty accessing his business on Main Street; the occasional hole or trench nearby. His neighbors are doing the …

How would you help Homer with $10 million?

Firefighters wanted the Homer Fire Station refurbished. Someone else wanted accessibility for people with disabilities improved. A Cortland County legislator wanted the village of Homer’s …

Cortland looks to end blue bags, adopt city-funded bins

Cortland’s Common Council approved a plan Tuesday night to seek proposals for large bins that would be distributed to residents for household waste and recycling, moving the cost of …

'A nice celebration of Cortland'

Toddlers chased soap bubbles. Older children wore crowns of balloons. Others petted a tortoise, or were draped with a snake. A pair of boys swung for the fences, and would have sent the ball to …

'Unroom' opens for sale

The dilapidated appearance of the red and white building along the southern end of the quaint row of homes in the village of Homer belied its role in local history. The shop had appeared closed …

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