ULYSSES – It’s very hard to find a home for a snapping turtle, the staff of Cayuga Nature Center has discovered. The Cayuga Nature Center in Ulysses has had trouble coping with …
Homer middle school girls did ballet warmups in the gym. First position, second. Adjust feet, extend arms. They weren’t doing ballet; they were preparing to throw guns in the air. The …
At McGraw Elementary school, 3-year-olds created crafts and played with Legos on Thursday morning. The 4-year-olds played outside in their puffy coats and snow pants. By the time they reach …
In 2023, school seemed to return to normal post-pandemic. Some students and teachers went past normality, however. New programming arose, and educators and students alike worked to make their schools …
2023 has been another year of growth for the arts in the Cortland area. From new venues, to new shows to reinventing historical concepts. Duck and Red Octopus Short film fest The Ake …
In 2019, Westley, a black lab, was guiding the CEO of Guiding Eyes for the Blind through the New York City Marathon. Now he spends his time guiding Cortland High School students to an emotionally …
The fans drifted in in ones and twos nearly two hours before the team arrived. They weren’t sure what to expect, not even sure when the champions would show up. They complained of the cold …
Dryden students grow vegetables for school lunches DRYDEN — Dryden High School students aren’t eating the same squares of pizza every day in the cafeteria. They’re …
How would Cortland Mayor Scott Steve look wearing a cardinal? Would you rather Naperville, Ill., Mayor Scott Wehrli wear a dragon? The two mayors have a bet: The mayor of the city of the losing …
Two years ago, Alison Sharpe introduced the agriculture program to Homer Junior High School. This month, the National Association of Agricultural Educators deemed her the best new agriculture teacher …
A new math program at Cortland Enlarged City School District has fourth-graders calculating the area of pentominoes, and kindergartners learning fractions. The Bridges Math program was …
GROTON – Groton Central School District graphic design students got creative with their interpretations of a grizzly bear, showing the bear waving, popping out of a “G,” scratching …
Security systems, an automated external defibrillator and improved facilities are among many benefits anticipated for nonprofit education programs in Cortland County that will share $57,000 in grants …
DRYDEN – Publishing a magazine isn’t just a bunch of writing. It’s more than art, too. It’s understanding design and technology, planning, organization, analyzing both the …
It was 8 a.m. The high schoolers skipped their morning coffee – they didn’t need it. They were rocking out, tuning basses, cheering friends and debating whether the color of the stage lighting matched the vibe of the song.
DRYDEN – Look in the trash cans of the Dryden High School cafeteria: You’ll find 5,000 plastic forks, tossed away every month. Students will soon reduce that number to zero, said …
SUNY Cortland will address a larger-than-expected budget deficit – $8.6 million – without layoffs of program cuts, the college announced this week. The projected deficit for this …
DRYDEN – While doing holiday shopping, anyone can go to Walmart or Target and pull something off the shelf, said Jonathan Majka, a graphic design student and peer tutor at Tompkins Cortland …
Homer tenth-grader Loralie Austen’s account for school meals was just in the negatives, she said, but she recently got funds added in, so she can still eat. Starting Dec. 1, she’ll no …
Developer Stephen Terwilliger announced Thursday that he has closed on the purchase of the former Virgil Elementary School, completing a two-year process, and he will convert it to 19 apartments and …
A student’s daily milk carton is no longer a promise at some greater Cortland area schools because of a nationwide shortage of half pint cartons, in which the milk is delivered. Officials …
Ava Armstrong was 11 years old when her mom, Brandy Armstrong, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. “It was a hard conversation,” Ava said, thinking back to before she was told …
The story of Grace Brown of Cortland, who was murdered in 1904 by her boyfriend, Chester Gillette, after she told him she was pregnant, has been used in an opera, two plays, the film “A Place in the Sun” and a novel. Now a new play is being staged, using no fiction, only the letters Brown and Gillette exchanged. The curtain goes up next week at the Lab theater of the Dowd Fine Arts Center at SUNY Cortland.
Homer High School students will take some classes outside next spring. Not for a field trip, or biology demonstration – just to be outdoors. Jason Graves, an earth science teacher and …
