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Standing on the rooftop and extolling the increase in the minimum wage to $15 as either the greatest advance in labor rights since the 40-hour work week or the greatest threat to unfettered …

It takes a village to raise a child, we’ve often read. In Dryden, the business community has come together to raise the village, in the form of the Dryden Business Association. In March …

It stinks. We know. Nobody likes it but here we are. The number of cases of COVID-19 and influenza are climbing again in Cortland County. It was expected, as people gathered with family and …

Gardens grow

The quality of school lunches is often a punchline — although we suspect many kids aren’t laughing along. That’s not the fault of cafeteria workers, but rather limited funding, federal …

Tax breaks arranged by the Cortland County Industrial Development Agency helped to create or retain 387 jobs this year, which does not include 350 that iSpice announced for the former Voyant factory …

Yes, Virginia

Editor’s note: The following editorial written by Francis P. Church first appeared in The New York Sun in 1897. It …

Not this year

We’re rooting for the little bit of snow still clinging to the ground, but the outlook for a white Christmas this year isn’t promising. From Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” to …

For the past five years, the state has been pressing municipalities to create plans to share services in an effort to create more efficient governments and save taxpayer dollars. As an incentive, the …

Landlords have a responsibility to provide safe properties for their tenants. Yet, more than 50 years after New York banned lead-based paints, nearly 60% of homes with high lead levels in Cortland …

Every parent has had to deal with this: the eye-watering, stomach-turning stench that burns the hair out of your nostrils, accompanied by a substance that, as Robin Williams once said, is part …

There is often more than one way to approach a problem, especially a complicated one. That is the case for mental health issues that have traditionally brought a response by a police officer. In …

We believe in the importance of arts in education, which can expose young people to ideas and concepts they won’t necessarily receive in science or math class and inspire passion and creativity …

We watched the crowd Saturday on Central Avenue in Cortland. We heard the cheers as the SUNY Cortland Red Dragons scored their fourth unanswered touchdown against Randolph-Macon College. Then a …

The world dodged the bullet again and again. Swine flu. Avian flu. The dire warnings came, we got anxious, then the spread was limited. It always seemed like the next pandemic would be prevented by …

Winter is coming

It’s worth remembering that winter takes a little more effort than the other seasons. Between low temperatures, hazardous conditions and the relative lack of sunlight, it can be easy to find …

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 …

The best

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 …

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