Every addiction has its cost. For smokers, that goes up $1 per pack, starting Friday, when the tax per pack of cigarettes rises to $5.35.
ITHACA — Ten people have been charged with kidnapping and killing an Ithaca man from behind a Lowes in Ithaca, an area known as the “Jungle,” state police said Monday A hundred …
Crews will connect new water services today to the existing main on West Court Street in Cortland, the city announced Monday, bringing water disruptions between Main Street and Monroe Heights. …
Accused: Valkyrie Niles, 36, of Sutton Road in Cincinnatus Charges: Third-degree grand larceny, third-degree welfare fraud, four counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, …
It’s not every town that you can trade farm animals, attend a horse pull, enter vegetables in competitions and ride a buggy down the street, but at Marathon’s 1890 Union Fair it’s all possible.
The writing coach at the journalism seminar all those years ago was insistent: “If you want to be a good writer, read good writing.” Seems pretty simple, and it works. But all this …
Cortland County farmers – and the businesses that support them – could see a harvest of profit as the state enacts a requirement that state agencies that buy food must buy 30% of it from …
Homer students this year won’t face a long list of supplies getting checked off after a pricey Walmart run, and kids won’t have to fight over whose Spider-Man notebook is cooler. …
A woman in her 60s died Saturday afternoon in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 81 in Cortlandville, state police reported. Four motorcycles were headed north about 3:21 p.m. when one of the …
Betty Ann Pitman has played hardball and softball; she’s led children and saved lives – and for this, Pitman was named Cortland County 2023 Senior Citizen of the Year. The …
The man arrested following a 3 1/2-hour standoff Aug. 11 faces another appearance in September in Cortland City Court, where he stands accused of breaking into a neighbor’s apartment in his …
When Rebecca Vliet’s twin daughters were born six weeks early, she needed a pediatrician – immediately. The search began. Sixteen years later, following a couple of retirements and …
Forty Cortland County foreclosed properties are up for auction through Thursday, the county announced Friday. The online auction, conducted by Auctions International of Buffalo, began Thursday. …
Health officials expect a return to pre-pandemic flu case levels, but warn that there is an increased risk of all respiratory infections with COVID-19 restrictions, and the public health emergency, …
Truxton’s historic bell, located in front of the Truxton Fire Department, will now be historic for an additional reason. The town will be the first of 15 towns in Cortland County to have a naloxone distribution box, with Truxton’s right by the bell.
Cortland County legislators voted Thursday to switch their retirees’ insurance to a private plan from Medicare – saving $800,000 a year in the process. But retirees fear the private …
Cortland will see 1,763 new people walking the streets, eating at restaurants and shopping at stores next week, as SUNY Cortland students arrive for the semester. Of these new students, 998 …
People who need government-subsidized housing face an 18-month wait, city officials said, so while a spike in evictions following a pandemic-era moratorium on them never materialized in the county, people without shelter remain couch surfing or without shelter.
Children are shopping for trendy clothes, bright notebooks and the coolest backpacks they can find in anticipation for the new school year, which begins in two weeks. School district …
Accused: Benjamin C. Truitt, 28, of Front Street, Marathon Charges: Two counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest, second-degree obstructing …
New York State Electric & Gas Corp. will inspect natural gas meters located inside homes and businesses across its service area as part of a a federal and state requirement that supports safe …
Homer Congregational Church will give children sneakers, socks underwear and hygiene items Saturday at its eighth annual Back to School P.R.E.P. event. at the church, 28 S. Main St. The church …
Brendan O’Bryan was appointed Wednesday as executive director of the Cortland County Business Development Corp. and Industrial Development Agency. He replaces Garry VanGorder, who is …
DRYDEN – When applying for a $4.5 million 2022 New York Forward grant, village of Dryden leaders created a wish list of 16 new projects to improve its downtown. This year, they are …
The spike was expected – the back-to-school season has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases every year since …