To the Editor: Please everyone, stop referring to our southern border as a crisis. Ukraine is a crisis. Gaza is a crisis.Starvation in several parts of the world is a crisis. The border …
Johnny Ramone had a great career — guitarist in one of the most influential punk bands ever. Of that career, he said: “It was a job, and I was just doing my job.” The job …
To the Editor: The history of public schools in New York state is a proud one. Once, every locality had its own local school. Even today, the public school system is often the largest employer …
To the Editor: The Cortland Rural Cemetery appreciates the coverage of the very interesting C.W. Sanders mausoleum renovation project now in process (“Cemetery gets $500K bequest to restore …
State Senator Lea Webb New York has always been a safe haven when it comes to maternal and reproductive healthcare, particularly in the Wake of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. …
You have a place in the food system. No no, not whether you’re an apex predator or a primary producer — that’s the food chain. We’re discussing the food system. Richard Ball, the …
The cameras clipped to the front of a Cortland police officer’s kit are, at heaviest, a couple of ounces. In some ways, they’re the best protection police have from harm. Cortland …
The cameras clipped to the front of a Cortland police officer’s kit are, at heaviest, a couple of ounces. In some ways, they’re the best protection police have from harm. Cortland police began …
In the interest of receiving future invitations to breakfasts with friends, we try not to judge others’ preferences when it comes to pancake toppings (not out loud, at least). Sure, whipped …
To the Editor: Gov. Hochul, your New York State Police, aided and abetted by local sheriff’s departments, behaved disgracefully and belligerently on what should have been the joyful occasion …
Dave Briggs has been determining the value of real estate in the Cortland area for 40 years. A lot has changed during that time, as industrial giants have risen and fallen and suburban sprawl …
Karla Alwes While out of town recently, with no Cortland Standard in sight, I read an article titled “Ginsburg Award Ceremony Canceled After Backlash” (Wall Street Journal, March 20). The …
We were baffled by some recent comments on a post on the Cortland Standard’s Facebook page — a user repeatedly claimed that SUNY Cortland was bad for the city of Cortland. Huh? SUNY …
Picture this: You’re driving down your street on your way home from work and come across the neighbor kids playing street hockey, in the street. You might figure that it’s a quiet street …
It’s an interesting conundrum: Municipal landfills like Cortland County’s produce 14.3% of methane emissions in America, about the equivalent of 23 million passenger vehicles each …
The town of Dryden is planning a survey of residents as it prepares to rewrite its zoning code to reflect the comprehensive plan adopted in 2022. A comprehensive plan sets a municipality’s …
To the Editor: I’m asking our Governor, Kathy Hochul, to sign A8866/S8357 into state law, which will ban carbon capture and sequestration from our state’s energy policy, one of the first …
To the Editor: In response to Mr. Stokoe’s March 19 letter to the editor about reparations, I have one suggestion: Read the book “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson. It explains clearly why, …
To the Editor: Our landfill is getting full — far faster than we anticipated, as the Cortland Standard reported in June 2023. Thirteen years left and we’re already almost full. Right now, …
Hank Morgan looked into the sky. He knew what was going to happen. The science was there; the facts were there. He was a Connecticut Yankee, after all, and a foreman in a factory with a wealth of …
Library remains a treasure To the Editor: Jen Graney, director of the Cortland Free Library moved me with her eloquence in her March 4 resignation letter. “As we find ourselves in the midst …
The construction has started for the season. Groton Avenue in Cortland will be blocked for the next five weeks, and different activities will make both Groton Avenue and Main Street questionable routes for the next seven months or so. The work has to happen. We need the new water and sewer mains to live. We’ll benefit from the better street lighting and new sidewalks. We’ll appreciate an easier, safer-to-navigate network of streets. But we know we’ll be guilty, as you probably are. We’re going to curse. Maybe we forgot to turn right to take the most convenient detour, or got stuck waiting for people at the crosswalk. Maybe we just have to drive a little more slowly to …
To the Editor: The gap between the ultra-wealthy and middle-class Americans has been growing for decades, due to highly favorable tax policies for the ultra-wealthy (income and estate taxes) …
We hope Cortland County’s very first Restaurant Week, which ended Sunday, brought a nice uptick in business to local eateries. It’s a tough business, made tougher since the start of the …
PLEASE PUBLISH AS SOON AS POSSIBLE-ECG To the Editor: I’m writing to urge interested community members to complete our brief public survey about the possibility of TC3 expanding housing …
