To the Editor: When you think of truly great American artists, how many of them that come to your mind are, or were, female? Outside of Georgia O’Keeffe , probably not many, if any at all. …
To the Editor: Publishing an article on the front page about community colleges, and an overwhelmingly negative one at that, (‘Waste of time’: …
What emergency? It’s an interesting juxtaposition: Cortland County will welcome, with open arms, people in dire straits and who need help — if they’re white people from Europe, perhaps …
To the Editor: I urge citizens of the 19th Congressional District to call their Congressperson Marc Molinaro. Tell him to vote for the budget extension …
A colleague told us about his experiences house hunting in the greater Cortland area about 25 years ago, and how he and his wife passed on buying an otherwise lovely home …
To the Editor: The lion’s share of Cortland Free Library’s operating budget — that’s the part that keeps the lights on, staff paid, and the historic building in good …
One of the greatest hoaxes in American history has a link to the village of Homer and is seeing renewed attention more than 150 years after it drew worldwide notoriety. The village Zoning Board …
To the Editor: In the April 21 paper, Mr. Shiffer cites many news articles from the past in an attempt to prove that climate change is false. Citing old …
To the Editor: I strongly support Daniel Mulligan, David Peck and Heather Williams for School Board. I am concerned by calls by some to cut back …
It’s called pothole politics. It’s not necessarily a bad idea: Everyday problems that make life in a community harder need to be dealt with. The pothole at the end of your driveway needs …
If today’s high school seniors are anything like we were all those many years ago, their emotions are in high gear right now. The end of the school year is fast approaching, the weather is nice …
To the Editor: The state of affairs within the United States government at present is untenable. There is not space enough to outline the lunacy in a letter to the editor. We have an ex-president …
A colleague is itching to get in to the woods to do some spring hiking, but the mere thought of encountering ticks in the great outdoors has us itching at our desks. Due to several close encounters …
To the Editor:New Yorkers do our part to recycle and reduce our waste, but we can’t recycle, reduce and reuse our way out of the 15 million tons of plastic waste produced in New York annually. …
Our disappointment with the proposed districts for the Cortland County Legislature — which you get to vote on in November — lies not so much with what the districts look like, as how they …
To the Editor: In his April 21 letter, Gary Shiffer uses cherry-picked isolated “facts” (some true, others not), tries to show contradictions in them and thus prove all climate science is …
We saw this all through our college years — and we still see it today, living in a college town: Every spring, as the students leave for the summer, the locals, students staying in town and …
Norm Stitzel, a Marine Corps veteran, is known for organizing the Toys for Tots program that distributes gifts to nearly 1,000 children every Christmas. Stitzel has been leading …
To the Editor: Dominion Voting System’s out-of-court settlement with Fox News brought to mind a quote from Thomas Jefferson. In 1788, when the proposed First Amendment was under …
In November 2020, I officially became one of the estimated 30 million people in the U.S. who are living with a rare disease — defined as a condition that affects fewer than 200,000 people. I …
Earlier this year, I announced my eleven-county town hall tour, with a town hall in each of the eleven counties I represent in New York’s 19th Congressional District. After meeting with …
Greater Cortland area school districts have started to submit their budgets for the 2023-24 school year, and each district’s voters will have a chance to weigh in during public hearings, and …
To the Editor:Really? Are the politicians and judges so foolish as the think the American people would believe that when they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, they didn’t know …
This newspaper regularly documents the dedication and heroism of firefighters – they give us a lot of opportunities, after all. Just last week, in fact, Cortland firefighters saved a woman from …
To the Editor:Recently two different stories appeared in the news — one about the dire flooding and famine in Sudan, and the other about the Supreme Court’s abortion pill case.Dr. Anthony …
