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Molinaro visits downtown Cortland

Business owners on Cortland’s Main Street told Congressional nominee Marc Molinaro of their problems Friday: difficulties hiring, child-care problems and more. Molinaro, a Republican and …

Winter! Cold? Snowy?

Kelsey Eliot sat in her pickup truck and chewed a french fry Thursday as she stared across Hope Lake at Virgil Mountain and Greek Peak in Virgil. It's the first week of fall. The leaves have …

County approves new dock at Little York park

The Cortland County Legislature decided Thursday to include $100,000 in the 2023 budget to replace the dock at Dwyer Memorial Park in Little York, restoring a glimpse of the grandeur of the park when …

Cortland folks show they care

Many hands make light work. United Way for Cortland County had its 27th annual Day of Caring Wednesday, welcoming county residents from all walks of life to beautify and restore community …

Unexpected obstacles slow Clinton Ave. rebuild

Things that hold up reconstruction of Clinton Avenue in Cortland: electrical ducts where nobody expected them; a lot of groundwater near the railroad tracks; and the tour bus weaving its way along a …

Fair hopes to hook up Voyant workers with new jobs

Eighty employers with hundreds — perhaps a thousand — job openings plan to attend a job fair Sept. 29 to recruit at least some of the nearly 500 workers to be laid off from Voyant Beauty …

City plans hearing today on city manager job

The Cortland City Common Council plans to set a public hearing tonight to create a city manager position that would oversee the daily operation of the city. The vote comes five days after the …

Fuel, other costs, pile up on municipalities

The Cortlandville Town Highway Garage is a microcosm of many of the nation's economic hardships, where the cost of truck tires has doubled, rising fuel costs slashed seasonal road work and jobs go …

State law disarms museums, re-enactors

Soldiers encamped Saturday behind the Central New York Living History Center in Cortlandville for a military vehicle show were disarmed. The display cases inside the museum …

Seedstock sprouts again after hiatus

The sun shone down Saturday afternoon as musicians on stage entertained crowds gathered on a grassy hillside behind a Cortlandville house as the Seedstock music festival resumed after a two-year …

After 2 years of few flu cases, experts not sure what to expect

After two years of fewer influenza cases – attributed to measures meant to slow the spread of COVID-19 – public health officials are not sure what the coming season will bring, except …

The $100,000 Cortland County has allocated from federal COVID-recovery grants has recouped some spending on mental-health care in schools, but still doesn’t solve the problem, a health agency …

The woodchucks win

They came to fight. They came dressed as woodchucks. Thirty years later, the people who stopped the state and federal governments from placing a low-level radioactive waste facility in Taylor …

Cover crops keep the field in place

Most of this summer has been hot and dry and, with that type of weather, the majority of crops are being harvested now. Agricultural fields tend to look barren, with plenty of bare soil and crop …

Legislators back new dock for Dwyer Park

A committee of the Cortland County Legislature has recommended that $100,000 be included in next year’s county budget to build a dock on Little York Lake at Dwyer Memorial Park. The Finance …

TC3 grant to create 4 micro-credentials now, more later

DRYDEN — The $150,000 grant that Southern Tier 8 announced Wednesday for Tompkins Cortland Community College is, in itself, not a large amount, but think of it as seed money, the planning …

Overtime rule worries farmers

While a state proposal moves forward to lower the threshold at which farmers must pay overtime to workers, the labor market has already been pressuring the industry to move in that direction, a …

Cold and dark

National Grid warns its natural gas heating customers could face a 39% increase in heating costs in the coming months, more than $50 a month for the five-month heating season, since last year. …

TC3 enrollment climbs, with more new, full-time students

DRYDEN – As the fall semester enters full swing, an increasing number of students are taking advantage of community college offerings, leading to an increase in enrollment at Tompkins Cortland …

Marathon's Union Fair uses the past to inspire the future

The town of Marathon hopes to inspire its next generation by exploring its distant past. Marathon had its annual 1890 Union Fair Saturday, celebrating its rural and agricultural history with …

The cemetery up the hill

Hidden above McGraw High School, just beyond the baseball diamond, is a piece of national history. In 1848, McGraw baptists founded New York Central College as the America’s first …

Never forgotten

Bridging the gap

Her bad experiences have ranged from rudeness to outright life-threatening – and Cortland County hopes to make that better. Erin Vallely, 27, of Dryden, knows the importance of health …

SUNY Cortland welcomes record freshman class

Kaylee Cummings and Meghan Miskovic paused Thursday as they were about to enter Bishop Hall at SUNY Cortland. Sure, they’d heard the college had enrolled its largest freshman class – …

City creates New Year's event despite First Light

The city will host a New Year's Eve celebration this year, creating a new version of an event canceled for the past two years during the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision drew objections from Tim …

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