When Jeanetta Laudermilk, owner of the Truxton Outpost, realizes there isn’t something fun to do on a weekend, she gives her customers an outlet to learn a new skill, she said.
There is a final wrinkle (for now) to the story about Cortland County’s early pioneers. Rhoda and Joseph Beebe, and Amos Todd are usually credited as the first pioneers to settle in the county. …
SUNY Cortland musical theater students perform famous shows and plays every month or so. Tonight and Saturday, they’ll help create an original piece. “In Emily’s Words,” …
The theme entrants had to follow for the 2024 Community Arts Challenge was “center,” a guideline about 100 artists took in many directions. Watercolor painter Denise Knight entered …
The Homer Winterfest is back after a three-year hiatus – three days filled with events including ice sculptures and a human dog sled race.
Recently digitized archives reveal the first settlers to Cortland County, Joseph and Rhoda Beebe, and her brother Amos Todd, bought their properties adjacent to each other in 1790 west of …
Recently digitized archives reveal the first settlers to Cortland County, a sister and two brothers, bought their properties adjacent to each other in 1790 west of the future village of Homer. As a …
When people discuss feminism, there is often a rhetoric of “fighting” the patriarchy, said Priscilla Berggren-Thomas, a founding member of Being Female. This organization of creative …
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Jim Madsen of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, based at the South Pole. Madsen is the executive director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics …
SEASONAL EVENTS Jan. 26-28: Homer Winterfest 2024. Fireworks, bonfire, arts challenge and more, many locations. Jan. 26: Tu Bishvat, 6:30 p.m., Temple Brith Sholom, 117 Madison St., …
“Eye Witness,” an exhibition of fine art in drawing, painting and sculpture, opens Jan. 22 at the Dowd Fine Art Gallery at SUNY Cortland. An opening reception with artists Minna …
Because of the recent digital revolution, we now have much more ready access to digitized archives that reveal details about the first pioneers who settled in what would become Cortland County. This …
SEASONAL EVENTS Jan. 26-28: Homer Winterfest 2024. Fireworks, bonfire, arts challenge and more, many locations. Jan. 26: Tu Bishvat, 6:30 p.m., Temple Brith Sholom, 117 Madison St., …
Part 2 of a 6-part series Historians disagree on where the first pioneers, Joseph and Rhoda Beebe, and her brother Amos Todd, landed in Cortland County in 1791. Another issue is …
On Jan. 4, 2004, NASA’s Spirit rover touched down on Mars — 20 years ago this week. Spirit launched from on board a Delta 7925-9.5 rocket from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, …
Cortland County has a fascinating pioneer history. However, while reading H.P. Smith’s “History of Cortland County,” I was surprised to find on page 186 that in 1791 the first …
SEASONAL EVENTS Dec. 31: Midnight on Main, Main Street Cortland. Streets will be blocked at 6 p.m. The ball drops at Tompkins and Main streets at midnight. Dec. 31: Dancin’ Thru the …
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 …
NORAD’s Eastern Air Defense Sector prepares to track Santa on Christmas Eve ROME — New York Air National Guardsmen assigned to NORAD’s Eastern Air Defense Sector in …
John Hartsock had passed the same memorial boulder on the north side of Homer for years: the one that marks the spot where Cortland County’s first white settlers made their first camp. But …
SEASONAL EVENTS Dec. 21: Santa Claus at Cortland Water Works, 5 to 7 p.m., Cortland Water Works, 75 Broadway Ave., Cortland. CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE Dec. 31: Dancin’ Thru the …
My mother, Lisa Byrne, makes more than 1,400 Christmas cookies every holiday season. Every Columbus Day, she bakes her first batch of cookies, and stashes them in one of my dad’s recent …
