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 …
To the Editor: Who is paying for all this? You know, the housing, medical, education, food and the transportation, of all these illegal immigrants. Not to mention the legal fees. I think you …
Sometimes misfortune brings out the best. I happily discovered that when my column titled “Retirement and Parkinson’s Disease” appeared in the Cortland Standard [Dec. 14, 2023]. A …
To the Editor: I would like to voice my concerns regarding the conversion of the Parker School into multiple apartments My home is located in the same zone, which show on the maps that it is …
A few years ago, someone asked us whether it would be worth Cortland’s while to include electric-vehicle charging stations among its projects for a $10 million Downtown Revitalization …
To the Editor: I like the word “hogwash.” I use it all the time, in both writing and speaking. But I have never seen it quite so aptly used as in the Cortland Standard editorial of July …
To the Editor: Mayor Steve — I’m a lifelong Cortland resident. I grew up on North Main Street, and for twelve years I’ve rented an efficiency apartment on Madison Street near Parker …
Making a positive impression on a child can open a world of possibilities. That was certainly the case for Alex Shaffer, a switchboard operator at Guthrie Cortland Medical Center in Cortland. Shaffer …
We were happy to learn last week that Experience Cortland, or the Cortland County Convention and Visitors Bureau, had won two tourism awards — one for a new tourism “trail” the bureau had …
Cortland taxpayers wakeup — Just say “no” to any more low income (taxpayer dependent) housing development in the city of Cortland. The recent offer by an out of county …
To the Editor: There is a serious shortage of low and moderate income apartments available in the city of Cortland. Drive up and down Groton, Lincoln or Maple avenues, and Madison Street …
