Celeste Perkins is just the kind of SUNY Cortland student who Chancellor John B. King wants to see on campus: She plans to vote. Perkins, a junior conservation biology major from Cortland, was …
Thomas Turck says the work funded for the past few years helped “create a foundation” for the Homer Central School District for the coming years and decades. As he guides his pickup …
Learning water safety encompasses much more than just learning to swim, said SUNY Cortland swim coach Brian Tobin. SUNY Cortland and Tompkins Cortland Community College will share in a $700,000 …
The Groton Central Schools are focusing on ways to get students re-engaged with the district, now that the COVID-19 pandemic is past. The 1,770-student Homer Central School District hired four …
The influx of thousands of SUNY Cortland students will invigorate the Veracruzana Mexican restaurant, and owner Moises Guevara said he’s eager to fill their orders. Construction …
Homer Central School Students will return to school Wednesday, but renovations to three elementary school classrooms will not be complete. “The scope of work was much greater than (crews) …
ITHACA -- Not that long ago, Homer High School graduate Fletcher Kuiken was finishing his six-year career doing tactical-aircraft maintenance on U.S. Air Force F-35 fighters. But there was …
McGraw Central School District has a new superintendent, and he’s already worked as a teacher, coach, adviser, business administrator and assistant superintendent for the district. Troy …
DRYDEN – Forty incoming Cortland ninth-graders had their first day of college Wednesday. Cortland Enlarged City School District students began the new Early College High School program at …
If you say “Hi, Olivia” to any of the incoming SUNY Cortland students moving in on Thursday, you have a pretty good chance of being right. Nearly 1,900 new and transfer students will …
The cliche is that schoolteachers have their entire summers free from work. The reality is quite different. On Wednesday morning, plenty of teachers – and a number of students – were …
Homer Central School District Superintendent Thomas Turck outlined schedule modifications Tuesday to the school board that would give students more time with teachers, and increase safety when …
August is the time for back-to-school shopping – kids need new backpacks, notebooks, pens – but parents aren’t the only ones doing back to school shopping. Guthrie Cortland …
The ever-changing nature of the outdoors makes it a perfect learning environment, educators say. More than 30 teachers from 10 states gathered last week at Lime Hollow Nature Center in …
Providing child care is a challenge – Cortland County has too few slots, costs are increasing and staff retention is low. But raise salaries and parents’ costs rise with it. Bob …
GROTON — Students can watch a local cow grow up in real time. Fouts Farm, on Route 222 in Groton, is going to be the New York state farm for the Adopt A Cow Program, which is from the …
Sister Harriet Hamilton might’ve topped 5-foot-2, or maybe not, but she commanded respect when she walked into a room. Her students would sit at attention during assemblies, waiting for her to …
SUNY Cortland students have helped shape the creation of an award-winning new musical. The show “In Emily’s Words” follows the life of Emily Brontë, the author of …
Janelle Hess missed a lot in her first two years of high school: the pleasure of getting lost on the first day of her freshman year; hanging out with friends in the lunchroom; waiting for the bus or …
Nellie Randall came to Homer in 1909 from Scotland. She ran restaurants in Homer and Tully before she went to Washington, D.C., during WWII, where she was in charge of dining services for the joint …
Summer reading is coming in hot with challenges at local libraries to keep people’s heads in the books. “If you think reading isn’t for you, you just haven’t found the …
Before diverging into 128 separate paths, Homer High School graduates leave the incoming freshmen with some advice before Saturday’s graduation ceremony: anything’s possible. …
