On the surface, a decision to switch Cortland County government’s retirees to a private health insurance plan from Medicare seemed like a no-brainer. It would save taxpayers $800,000 a year …
America has 62 National Heritage Areas, including four in New York. Soon, if all goes well, Cortland County will be part of the 63rd, and the fifth in New York: the Finger Lakes National Heritage …
During this time of year, as fall arrives, we often find ourselves rooting for college teams playing football, soccer or cross country. But when it comes to Tompkins Cortland Community College, …
As the school year begins, families with children attending Cortland and Homer public schools did not have to go through the annual chore of shopping for school supplies because the district took …
In 2000, the Federal Reserve in Buffalo found that in the cycle of people follow jobs, and jobs follow people, it all began with jobs follow people. The Federal Reserve in New York found the same in …
The cost of a pack of cigarettes in New York state increased $1 on Saturday, bringing the total tax to $5.35 per pack. While some may argue that increasing the cost of cigarettes will not persuade …
If you’re anything like us, you remember a time when, as fresh-faced kiddos, you were excited for the first day of a new school year. Of all the things swirling around our heads back then as we …
Our best advice: Don’t get both shots in the same arm. But do get them: influenza and the latest COVID booster. As we reported last week, health experts expect that after several …
New York’s budding cannabis industry has had a bumpy ride since the state decriminalized marijuana in 2019 and legalized adult recreational marijuana use in March 2021. Lawsuits, confusion and …
Tonight, the big news regarding opioid addiction will be a vigil marking International Overdose Awareness Day at Courthouse Park in Cortland. Expect many hugs, perhaps a few tears, memories both good …
A proposed housing development along Mott Road and Route 13 in the village of Dryden would increase the village population more than 50% and drastically alter life in the community. That said, …
Cortland County’s last strategic plan — adopted in 1978 — is hilariously out-of-date, and we are very, very late in creating a new plan to guide us for the next decade or so. If the …
Reading the news reports reminded us of Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...” The recollection …
Being in the information business, it should come as no surprise that we strongly support efforts at public accountability and access to, literally, “the halls of government” to the …
Hundreds of Cortland County government employees provide the community with lots of services, many of them behind the scenes and many of them thankless. One of the benefits of public service that …
Opioid-related deaths, which had already increased almost 300% between 2010 and 2020 in New York, only skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic — another 68% between 2019 from 2021, according …
The Cortland County Legislature will decide Thursday whether to approve $100,000 to cover increasing costs of medical services to County Jail inmates. Legislators don’t have much of a choice, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
