While the aisles of chocolate with logos and catchphrases at the grocery store can seem like tempting, easy gifts at first glance, there is nothing unique about them. Personal gifts are better …
When Jeanetta Laudermilk, owner of the Truxton Outpost, realizes there isn’t something fun to do on a weekend, she gives her customers an outlet to learn a new skill, she said.
There is a final wrinkle (for now) to the story about Cortland County’s early pioneers. Rhoda and Joseph Beebe, and Amos Todd are usually credited as the first pioneers to settle in the county. …
The theme entrants had to follow for the 2024 Community Arts Challenge was “center,” a guideline about 100 artists took in many directions. Watercolor painter Denise Knight entered …
Recently digitized archives reveal the first settlers to Cortland County, Joseph and Rhoda Beebe, and her brother Amos Todd, bought their properties adjacent to each other in 1790 west of …
Recently digitized archives reveal the first settlers to Cortland County, a sister and two brothers, bought their properties adjacent to each other in 1790 west of the future village of Homer. As a …
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Jim Madsen of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, based at the South Pole. Madsen is the executive director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics …
Because of the recent digital revolution, we now have much more ready access to digitized archives that reveal details about the first pioneers who settled in what would become Cortland County. This …
Part 2 of a 6-part series Historians disagree on where the first pioneers, Joseph and Rhoda Beebe, and her brother Amos Todd, landed in Cortland County in 1791. Another issue is …
On Jan. 4, 2004, NASA’s Spirit rover touched down on Mars — 20 years ago this week. Spirit launched from on board a Delta 7925-9.5 rocket from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, …
Cortland County has a fascinating pioneer history. However, while reading H.P. Smith’s “History of Cortland County,” I was surprised to find on page 186 that in 1791 the first …
John Hartsock had passed the same memorial boulder on the north side of Homer for years: the one that marks the spot where Cortland County’s first white settlers made their first camp. But …
A recent study on data collected from NASA’s Cassini mission might have found evidence of life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. A chemical called hydrogen cyanide was detected in water vapor …
The Dairy Dreamers 4H Club completed a community service project Nov. 27 with the Homer Fire Department. The group consists of 17 members based out of Little York, with bi-weekly meetings at New …
Cortland Arts Connect hopes to host free art workshops, encourage local authors to read their works and other free programs with a state grant. The arts organization recently received a $15,000 …
A group of artists are using their talents, and mutual love for cats, to help the full Cortland animal shelters. “Cat Tales: Artistic Renderings of Our Feline Companions,” is …
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of employees have walked in and out of the Cortland Standard ’s office at 110 Main St., Cortland, in the 140 years since it was erected. Among the …
Billy J. James started playing guitar at 7, and was playing professionally by 9. In 2015, he was inducted into the New York State Country Hall of Honor. On Sunday, he made it to the Hall of Fame. …
Last month, the OSIRIS-REX probe delivered rock samples to Earth from the asteroid Bennu, the first U.S. spacecraft to collect samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REX stands for Origins, Spectral …
Michael Stevans has been creating art since he left Vietnam 55 years ago. This December, his piece depicting the effects of Agent Orange will be at a national art competition in Washington D.C. …
