If you’re homeless in the city of Cortland, a lot of people want tohelp you. But there can be large barriers between people withouthomes and the agencies and the organizations that exist to …
That’s a stark difference on Main Street, isn’t it? For days, we’ve strolled down the now-treeless street watching people pass us by, stunned and incredulous. We’ve noticed …
We were thrilled to learn that a possible mating pair of peregrine falcons had taken up residence in the vicinity of SUNY Cortland. We first read about peregrine falcons when we were adolescents, in …
We smile to think of the basic principles we saw in play as Charlie Bertini won a seven-year trademark battle with Apple over the use of Apple Music and AppleJazz: What’s right isn’t a …
I found a dime on the hallway floor outside the high school band room and I was ecstatic. I knew the technical director for the upcoming stage production kept provisions backstage. For 25 cents, …
Eight-year-old Daryna Kosarieva walked up to the stranger sitting in her living room and asked to give him a hug. It was a rebirth of hope. She’s safe, now. Warm and dry and learning …
Bob Howe, the longtime Republican elections commissioner who died in February, could be quite a character. Howe seemed to relish making provocative statements in otherwise normal conversations, and …
Cortland County’s traffic ticket diversion program sounded like a good idea a couple of years ago when it was first proposed, but we had no idea how successful it would be. Since late 2020, …
We worried about the two gaping holes in the pearly white smile of Cortland’s industrial sector. When Voyant announced last fall it would shut down its Cortland facilities, leaving nearly …
When the town of Dryden began planning a municipal broadband service a few years ago to improve access to internet in rural areas not served by private companies, we thought it was a great idea. …
Late last year, we wrote about Cortlandville firefighter Jonathan Alteri, who was honored by the Cortlandville Town Board for rescuing Gregory Robinson of Cortlandville on Dec. 16 from a vehicle …
Being alone and in need of help is a difficult position to be in, regardless of the cause. Senior citizens and people with drug addictions are two groups of people who can find themselves isolated. …
One of the political difficulties of living in Cortland County is that it’s on the back end of every legislature district that represents it. The 19th Congressional District is a dumbbell …
It’s spring now, and that’s when humans start spending more time in the woods and fields, and when ticks reappear following the ravages of winter.Well, the ravages of winter ain’t …
When Groton schools began offering free lunches to all students five years ago, the number of students who stopped in the nurse’s office complaining of stomach aches in the morning dropped …
Two greater Cortland area basketball teams had amazing seasons and advanced to the state semifinals this year, but no further. Even in “defeat,” however, these student athletes have …
Two things stopped a child sex abuser last week: the definition of the word “gratification”; and one girl’s courage. Mitchell L. Padbury, 63, of Marathon, was convicted of six …
As the Homer Town Board weighs rules to govern digital billboards proposed on Interstate 81, it faces broader questions about the community’s future. The town’s last comprehensive …
Following what we expect was a pretty vocal backlash when Cortland County legislators voted to revise their mileage policy to, among other things, reimburse legislators for their commute from home to …
You know the committee name’s a clunker when the committee chairman won’t pronounce it correctly. Last week, Cortland County Legislator Beau Harbin (D-Cortland) referred to the …
We first noticed the problem early in the coronavirus pandemic, three years ago. Our reporters tried to cover public meetings via Zoom or some other teleconference operation. We weren’t …
We applaud the efforts of local leaders to find a solution to the childcare crunch, especially because we don’t expect major action at the state or federal level anytime soon. Our best chance …
As the village of Homer is finding out and the city of Cortland has already learned, the state’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative provides an incentive to plan big to make a good downtown a …
We’d like to address this editorial to our representatives in the House, our two senators and President Joe Biden: We beg of you, please. Please, PLEASE can we finally ditch this silly …
What does it mean to be hungry? It fundamentally changes how you think about food — about everything, really — and that the experience is never far from your mind, even for many years …
