Symptomatic treatment: When medical care is focused on the symptoms, rather than the underlying cause. For example, treating a persistent headache with aspirin when the real problem is a brain tumor. …

To the Editor: A history professor from Cornell University said that The Central New York Living History Museum is “The best little museum in America, and it is not so little.” …

Opioid addiction has became a significant threat to the well-being of a growing number of Cortland County area residents, harming them, those who love them and the community. Cortland County is …

If you think about it, an awful lot of people plunk themselves down in a friend’s living room every February to watch the biggest game in football, the Super Bowl. So why not help them plunk …

To the Editor: At my interview for a probation officer position in 1971, the first thing the director said was that county salaries were “lousy,” but that if I stuck it out I could count …

On the surface, a decision to switch Cortland County government’s retirees to a private health insurance plan from Medicare seemed like a no-brainer. It would save taxpayers $800,000 a year …

To the Editor: Despite the fact that I will be 63 at the end of the year, I can still vividly remember when I was three years old, my sole sibling patiently teaching me how to read. My big …

America has 62 National Heritage Areas, including four in New York. Soon, if all goes well, Cortland County will be part of the 63rd, and the fifth in New York: the Finger Lakes National Heritage …

To the Editor: Concerning the Cortland County retiree health plan switch to the United Healthcare Medicare Advantage plan: Just the facts, as this retiree understands them to be. Speaking …

To the Editor: Once again the complete idiocy of a Hitch cartoon pollutes the pages of the Cortland Standard (Sept. 7). Hitch depicts John Kerry holding two signs: “Save the Planet” and …