Since even before the Cortland Enlarged City School district closed Parker Elementary School in July 2019, a lot of people have worked very hard to prevent the property from being converted into low- …
In our dreams, we see a tunnel of green — often ramrod straight, sometimes it wends along rivers and streams or along leafy city streets, but the trail goes ever on, extending from the village of …
While leaders of the Center for the Arts of Homer mark 20 years this month since the entertainment and arts venue was founded, it’s both looking back on accomplishments and toward goals for the …
Somewhere between the logistics of planning a stroll down Main Street in Cortland, the never-ending dust that seems to fill our nostrils, and the window-rattling, conversation-ending, …
There is a long weekend coming up, the first of the summer. While we enjoy getting together with family and friends for picnicking, boating and other pleasures, we are obliged to take a moment to …
Governments, non-profit organizations, even libraries are doing what they can to help the greater Cortland area’s expanding population of homeless people — 50% more than just before the …
The Cortland County Legislature formed a committee Monday night to plan for a potential influx of asylum seekers coming from New York City — a week and a half after Legislature Chairman Kevin Fitch …
The Cortland Enlarged City School District’s proposed 2023-24 budget was one of only nine defeated statewide in May 16 referendums and the cause could not have been more obvious. The $54.5 …
The Cornell University study was mesmerizing in how little actually new information it provided, but how validating that information was. It seems that a large chunk of upstate New Yorkers …
We can’t imagine a life without music. We remember the lullabies of our infancy, the popular music of our teen years, the first dance with our new spouse and the songs that lifted our spirits when …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The reconstruction of Cortland’s Main Street is a complicated and expensive project. It became even more so when two utility companies would not cooperate, city officials said. The $12 million …
So No-Mow May begins in six days. If you've signed up in the city of Cortland — or your municipality has agreed not to fine you, as Cortlandville has — you can go an entire month without …
We first grew concerned about trees when we took the first spruce out. Or maybe the cherry that followed. Or it could have been the second, third, fourth and fifth spruces.Then the other cherry. Then …
We were young once. No, really. We were. And while the memories may have become a little hazy with the passing years, we remember what it was like to go out to parties and bars on the weekend. Now, …
