To the Editor: The city of Cortland is pleased to offer a beautiful new tree for the planting in the city’s right of way. The choice of trees is now available on the city’s web page …
Reading the news reports reminded us of Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...” The recollection …
Retired Cortland County employees have for decades retired under a contract that promised them they would, upon becoming age-eligible for Medicare, be provided with secondary health insurance to …
Being in the information business, it should come as no surprise that we strongly support efforts at public accountability and access to, literally, “the halls of government” to the …
Thomas Lickona The sexual revolution normalized pornography. The Internet made it ubiquitous. In The New York Times (Sept. 6, 2021), Catharine MacKinnon, a feminist scholar and University …
Valerie Patridge No matter who we are or where we come from, we all know at least one person affected by opioid use disorder. OUD is a medical disorder characterized by an inability to stop …
Hundreds of Cortland County government employees provide the community with lots of services, many of them behind the scenes and many of them thankless. One of the benefits of public service that …
To the Editor: News reports of horrifying climate change destruction are almost a daily occurrence. It’s like being in a war. In fact we are in a war — a war with nature. The media lists …
Opioid-related deaths, which had already increased almost 300% between 2010 and 2020 in New York, only skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic — another 68% between 2019 from 2021, according …
The Cortland County Legislature will decide Thursday whether to approve $100,000 to cover increasing costs of medical services to County Jail inmates. Legislators don’t have much of a choice, …
To the Editor: How did we allow the governments of the United States of America to become disgraceful? Do you remember anything like what is going on in the last few years happening before? …
To the Editor: I searched in vain for “Hitch’s” signature on the Aug. 1 Opinion page cartoon. Perhaps the paper cut the copy short. Or, perhaps even Hitch is now embarrassed to put …
The comic strip comes to mind every year about this time. Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes, realizes he has only days left in summer vacation before school resumes, and he hasn’t made his quota of …
I recently went to a nationally renowned bookstore to find a book for a beginning reader, who happens to be a girl. Walking into the bookstore I was greeted with a magnificent display of wall-to-wall …
Cortland County seeks volunteers to encourage their neighbors to get vaccinated: against influenza; against COVID-19; against measles or mumps or all the other illnesses if you or your parents, for …
To the Editor: Some of us remember the Cortland battle against a low level radioactive waste dump back in the 1990s. Certainly, we recall some of the facts we learned about nuclear power and …
To the Editor: I would like to respond to comments made at the most recent public hearing regarding Parker School. As of now, I have made it clear regarding my concern of turning the green …
When we consider business opportunities in the greater Cortland area, we’re likely to think about what’s already here — manufacturing, the great outdoors, SUNY Cortland students. These are …
To the Editor: Thank you to my neighbors and fellow residents of the 2nd Ward who had the courage and compassion to speak at the Aug. 1 public hearing as well as the previous one objecting to …
Many folks cheered the demise of the “blue bags” at the end of last year, as the city of Cortland said goodbye to the distinctive trash bags after several decades. Seven months later, we are left …
How would you feel if you discovered that your employer rewarded you for decades of hard work and leadership by paying you less than the people who worked for you? And what does that say for the …
To the Editor: I am writing in reference to John Tucker’s letter of July 26, regarding saying “no” to the building of any more Section 8 housing. I can fully understand where you are …
To the Editor: The city of Cortland woefully underestimated the cost of the new trash collection system. They are almost at the budgeted amount only 7 months through the year. Trash collection …
To the Editor: How did we allow the governments of the United States of America to become disgraceful? Do you remember anything like what is going on in the last few years happening before? …
It might look like something developed by NASA, but the tracked vehicle that rolled through the Art Meadow of Lime Hollow Nature Center last week will give some people with mobility limitations …
