“Quiet - The Power ofIntroverts in a WorldThat Can’t Stop Talking,”— By Susan Cain,Random House 2013 As children, we are encouraged to make lots of friends. When someone is …

July 4 is approaching and Cortland County has a host of activities to make the most of Independence Day and the summer. Your nation turns 246 only once, so celebrate like it’s 1776. The …

Christian recording artist Sherry Anne will perform July 31 at Cuyler United Methodist Church as part of a free outdoor barbecue and indoor concert.

Carol Healy, 85, of Manhattan is a retired marketing director for Revlon, in its international department. On Friday, she was taking a walk along Main Street, Homer. She has a sister in the village …

In the pause,you hold your breathwaitingto seeif your heartwill decidewhether to go on,whether it will take the next beator if it feelsmuch as you dothat in thiscrazychaoticinscrutableworldchecking …

Softly illuminated by dim morning lightTwo crosses stand along the highway.Two thin, trembling markers,One tall, one small, an unstable shrine,Identifying a sad, tragic split-second -But also, a …

Chestnut, white oak and poplar frame a southwestern sky,their summer leaves mingle with ten knot westerly winds.thus begins - a slow shaking of leaves, dancers waving. imperceptibly leaves change …

There were maybe a dozen stone walkway squares Between an oil and stone road And the steps to the porch of my childhood home A dozen or so average sized strides That I almost never …

Time to make a sore That kept me from the shore I am ready I have stood my ground We can accomplish anything like lions do But how can we make due? If only one of us commits Then …

I was born into a poor familyMy Dad taught me to be honest and free.He raised me gently and taught me to loveSomehow instilling I would be blessed from above. My childhood was dark and the scars …

Moving up the mountaincan cause you pain and stress,but move on up the mountainto find your happiness. Inching up the mountainbut first get through the weeds.While you search for mountaintopsyou …

They’ll serve us coffee when the air raids end. I’ll look down into the hot hole… Resting on my lap, hands cupped I could find a way to live in there forever. This is …

Catastrophe! Calamityas their nests came crashing down;very late, heavy snowfall descendedon ground, trees, and everything beneath;a branch as thick as a manwith many limbs fell to earth;half a dozen …

SometimesIn my mind there is a prairieAnd I stand in tawny grassTo lift my arms to the endless skyIn thanksFor all the crazy thingsThat are going to happenThis day and the next -- Lynn Olcott, …

Down at the Keyshear the ocean breezeIt’s the place to beby the sea — Harvey Neumeister, age 8, of Duluth, Ga.Sent to his grandparents, the Rev. Butch and Connie Neumeister of …

I might just send a candy boxA bouquet made of pretty phloxOr several shares of Apple stocksTo tell her of my love I might just take her out to dineI think it would be very fineAnd she would think …

Cortland Standard readers tackled it all in the latest poetry page. The ideal relationship, Ukraine, a grandparent’s delight, love and struggle — it’s all here. It’s …

Cincinnatus Central School art students won a second place for design in the Olympics of the Visual Arts Competition, said Macksi Warner, art teacher at the school.

ITHACA — The Paleontological Research Institution will host Family Day on Saturday, at its venues, Museum of the Earth and Cayuga Nature Center.

Finishing Line Press announces the October 2022 publication of “The House Was Quiet, But the Mind Was Anxious,” a poetry collection by Nancy Avery Dafoe of Little York.

Orienteeringopen to publicCentral New York Orienteering is hosting a six-hour orienteering event July 9 at Morgan Hill State Forest in Cortland and Onondaga counties.Participants have six hours using …

“Over the River and Through the Woods” has so much going for it. The comedy features two sets of Italian grandparents who don’t want to see their young grandson move across the …

Nate Druckman of Cortlandville is new at the Cortland Farmers Market at 13 Court St., Cortland. The Farmers Market is in a new spot because of anticipated road construction this summer. Druckman …

In the early morning of June 28, 1969, members of the LGBTQ community began the first of a series of spontaneous riots in response to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, …

A look at what’s going on in the week ahead: TODAY - Aiken, 6 p.m., Cortland Beer Co., 16 Court St., Cortland. - Jamfest, 5 to 9 p.m., Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S. Main St., …