History: It’s dusty books on the shelf, right? Wrong. At the Cortland County Historical Society, it’s a TikTok video, and a candlelight event showing off the stuff and style it has collected …
We’ll admit we’re a little disappointed that state Supreme Court Justice Mark Masler has declared moot a suit that Cortland County retirees brought against the county over its plan to switch …
A Cortland Standard editor, vising family along a major body of water recently, saw a bald eagle wheeling around at the end of the bay one morning as he drank his coffee. When the editor mentioned to …
We work hard for the money we earn, and expect governments to keep that in mind as they go about the people’s business using taxpayer dollars. Most of us don’t have a lot to spare, and …
We expect Fred Forbes Sr., to go out the same way he has worked in Homer for 20 years: quietly, consistently, transparently. We’ll be sorry to see him go. When Forbes was first elected Homer …
The city of Cortland’s request for proposals early this year to redevelop the former Parker Elementary School drew a single offer from Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services. That plan has been …
When a community invests in a business through a microenterprise grant or loan, it — like any other investor — seeks a return on its investment. But it calculates the return differently. …
The signs of homelessness are more apparent in Cortland County. Look at the number of people hanging around Cortland Free Library or Courthouse Park. Peak in at the county’s warming centers. …
Main Street in Cortland has been a little rough this summer and fall. Maybe you noticed. Things aren’t so bad now, of course — with a fresh coat of asphalt and some newly painted …
Some day, the girls of the Cincinnatus girls soccer team will look back, perhaps wistfully, with a bit of nostalgia, on that day when they were the best. The best. They’ll look past that …
