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Guthrie’s Community Benefit Program will give $9,000 to Racker to support as program to provide Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy to students with severe emotional …

Cayuga Health will have a free, interactive webinar, “Digestive Health and Colon Cancer Prevention,” at 5:30 p.m. march 26. The webinar features a panel of healthcare experts who …

‘You don’t stop trying’

Perceptions about homeless people need to change, greater Cortland area leaders said at Wednesday’s Cortland Counts Community Forum. “Perception is how we interpret our environment …

Seven Valleys Health Coalition will give away locally sourced breakfast boxes March 29, the agency announced via social media. The food will be distributed from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Seven Valleys …

Six vehicles collide in Route 13 accident

At least two people were injured Tuesday morning in a six-car collission on Route 13 at Byrne Hollow Road in Cortlandville. "It just happened so fast," said Jennifer Cole-Spano, who was stopped …

Twenty social service and other agencies will staff Cortland County’s first Community Resource Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the Cortland County Office Building. Agencies for …

Consolidating seniors

Joan P. Greene, 75, travels about four miles nearly every weekday from McGraw to the Cortland County Age Well Center. She takes its bus. “I used to drive and I have my license, but my leg …

Opioid deaths stable, but fentanyl spikes

Each of the 10 overdose-related deaths in Cortland County in 2023 involved opioids; nine of them were fentanyl – a topic for Wednesday’s Cortland Counts Community Forum. Sara Watrous …

Closest in-patient addiction service to Cortland closes

LANSING – An in-patient addiction facility just 20 miles from downtown Cortland that opened in July will close its doors following the closure of the Alcohol & Drug Council of Tompkins …

Phillips Free Library in Homer has added a naloxone distribution box just outside the side entrance – the latest addition to a Healing Cortland initiative. Healing Cortland, a …

Sen. Charles Schumer was in Ithaca Monday to call on the federal government to help New York hospitals affected by the Feb. 21 cyber attack on a hospital affiliated with Change Healthcare, leaving …

State plans employment first for people with disabilities

A state plan to encourage hiring of people with developmental disabilities is a good start, said Cortland’s top advocate for people with disabilities. Next, help the rest. A provision in …

Tompkins County Whole Health announced Friday guidance from the Centers for Disease Control easing the amount of time people with COVID-19 should isolate before they can return to normal activities. …

Nearly 80% of the residents ages 50-64 in Cortland and most nearby counties have been screened for colorectal cancer, the current New York State health data show. That’s well above the …

How Cortland’s economy affects your health

The economic status of a community may not be your first thought when you think of a person’s individual health, but it is a factor, experts said. To understand how economy and health …

Proposed state budget cuts addiction services 16%

A 16% cut to addiction services in the proposed state budget doesn’t come as a surprise, said Lisa Hoeschele, executive director and chief executive officer of Family and Children’s …

Cortland CrossFit clients, owner save a life

One of the first things Amanda Giles bought for her business, Cortland CrossFit, was an automated external defibrillator. Three years later, the AED helped save a client’s life. The …

Resource fair provides info on housing, domestic violence

Resource fair provides info on housing, domestic violence By JACK LAKOWSKY Staff Reporter jlakowsky@cortlandstandard.com Kristen Monroe wants people to walk away from Cortland …

The birth of Hope

For six minutes, all that kept the baby from dying was Katelyn Eaton’s voice on the phone. Eaton, a dispatcher with Cortland County Emergency Response and Communications, blocked out the …

‘She’s what a nurse should be’

It was the early 1970s. Gail Pforter watched her father lose his leg to cancer. Soon after, she went to what was then Cortland Memorial Hospital. That was 50 years ago, 1974. She never left. …

Cayuga shows off department store-sized medical office

LANSING – Cayuga Health officials say the company’s new location off Route 13 in a former department store at the Shops at Ithaca Mall, set to open partially in late March, is meant to …

COVID: When it never leaves

Long COVID could mean stomach pains. It could mean a cough, or fatigue. The condition has more than 200 possible symptoms. It’s hard to diagnose. Doctors don’t always know. …

Long COVID advocates ask Congress to improve response

Long COVID patients and experts called on lawmakers In January to expand clinical trials and better educate doctors on what researchers currently know about the potentially debilitating chronic …

Clinic developers meeting with Euclid neighbors

The city of Cortland has little choice in an incoming methadone clinic on Euclid Avenue, but city Aldersperson Wayne Schutt said when its lease is up, he’s going to push them hard to relocate. …

Dryden, Moravia schools win mental health grants

Four years have passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the emotional damage for students has gotten only worse, said Lisa Hoeschele, executive director of Family and Children’s …

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