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Memorial Day traditions return

Gary St. John adjusted the pad, kneeled down and scrubbed the gravestone.A splash of water, a switch to a smaller brush to clean a year’s worth of dirt, dust and grass from the engraved …

Helping to plant the Seeds of Hope

Ragtime music filled the air Saturday at Rose Hall in Cortland as Jazz Happens Band lew horns, plucked banjos and jammed keyboards before more than 30 people. In front of the stage, organizations …

Food Sense makes cents

Greater Cortland area food pantry officials report a program to help people — regardless of income — is seeing increased use as the prices of food escalate across the nation. Food …

At the top of her game

Sitting in her new office, Andrea Piedigrossi is excited, even though she has worked in the same place for 18 years. She could not have imagined herself as the head of the Cortland Youth Bureau …

Marking history

Obtaining a New York State historical marker for the former Cincinnatus Academy was a yearlong process for Sharon Pesesky. “This was a killer,” said Beth MacRae, co-chairwoman of the …

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 …

More activity options

The Truxton senior center has expanded its hours from one to two days each week and plans to add more programs and activities, such as fundraising and summer camp, this year, said the center …

Historic exhibit

Echoing in the Cortland County Courthouse rotunda are voices highlighting an historical event through an exhibit that the county is hosting — for a short time. The exhibit, titled: …

Crowd along the creek

Dry Creek in Suggett Park was lined Saturday morning with hundreds of people as they waited anxiously for the start of the Corn Ducky Derby. Children flocked to the creek banks in the city park …

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 …

$700K to bridge the gap

DRYDEN — Bob O’Malley stood at the edge of a crowd Friday as U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced a $700,000 federal grant to close a funding gap and build a bridge completing the …

The Zonta Club of Cortland has awarded $6,600 to Cortland area organizations, the club has announced. Recipients this year include the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, YWCA Aid to Victims of …

Corn Ducky details

Volunteers ankle deep in Dry Creek at Suggett Park in Cortland on a sunny, temperate Thursday hammered plywood into the creekbed, the sound echoing from half a block away. The goal was to build …

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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