A new math program at Cortland Enlarged City School District has fourth-graders calculating the area of pentominoes, and kindergartners learning fractions. The Bridges Math program was …
GROTON – Groton Central School District graphic design students got creative with their interpretations of a grizzly bear, showing the bear waving, popping out of a “G,” scratching …
Security systems, an automated external defibrillator and improved facilities are among many benefits anticipated for nonprofit education programs in Cortland County that will share $57,000 in grants …
GROTON – Groton Central School District has received more than 200 ideas for a new mascot from students and the community, said Superintendent Margo Martin. The three finalists will be …
DRYDEN – Publishing a magazine isn’t just a bunch of writing. It’s more than art, too. It’s understanding design and technology, planning, organization, analyzing both the …
It was 8 a.m. The high schoolers skipped their morning coffee – they didn’t need it. They were rocking out, tuning basses, cheering friends and debating whether the color of the stage lighting matched the vibe of the song.
DRYDEN – Look in the trash cans of the Dryden High School cafeteria: You’ll find 5,000 plastic forks, tossed away every month. Students will soon reduce that number to zero, said …
SUNY Cortland sophomore Kaylee Evans is lobbying today at the New York State Capitol to get the New York HEAT Act passed. Next month, she will be interning there. Evans is the first SUNY …
SUNY Cortland will address a larger-than-expected budget deficit – $8.6 million – without layoffs of program cuts, the college announced this week. The projected deficit for this …
DRYDEN – Three young cows that were on the lam for a week from an auction house in the village were captured early Wednesday afternoon and returned to Empire Livestock. The company hired a …
DRYDEN – Dryden students were advised this week to leave their red capes at home after three cows went on the lam, school district officials announced. Over Thanksgiving break, Dryden …
DRYDEN – While doing holiday shopping, anyone can go to Walmart or Target and pull something off the shelf, said Jonathan Majka, a graphic design student and peer tutor at Tompkins Cortland …
Homer tenth-grader Loralie Austen’s account for school meals was just in the negatives, she said, but she recently got funds added in, so she can still eat. Starting Dec. 1, she’ll no …
SUNY Cortland has been named among the top 50 colleges in the nation to accommodate people with disabilities, and 2021 graduate Jenny Riekert can explain why. “I almost always received the …
Developer Stephen Terwilliger announced Thursday that he has closed on the purchase of the former Virgil Elementary School, completing a two-year process, and he will convert it to 19 apartments and …
A student’s daily milk carton is no longer a promise at some greater Cortland area schools because of a nationwide shortage of half pint cartons, in which the milk is delivered. Officials …
Ava Armstrong was 11 years old when her mom, Brandy Armstrong, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. “It was a hard conversation,” Ava said, thinking back to before she was told …
The story of Grace Brown of Cortland, who was murdered in 1904 by her boyfriend, Chester Gillette, after she told him she was pregnant, has been used in an opera, two plays, the film “A Place in the Sun” and a novel. Now a new play is being staged, using no fiction, only the letters Brown and Gillette exchanged. The curtain goes up next week at the Lab theater of the Dowd Fine Arts Center at SUNY Cortland.
Homer High School students will take some classes outside next spring. Not for a field trip, or biology demonstration – just to be outdoors. Jason Graves, an earth science teacher and …
The typical introvert may not enjoy the bars, parties or large campus events that many college students typically hang at. But they might still want to make connections in a more controlled …
Homer Junior-High School will have a fall festival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The event will include games and activities for children of all ages, the school district announced via social …
Jordan West and Anakin Irwin practiced their carnival barking Friday, but it wasn't all just fun and games – their McGraw fifth-grade classmates had learned about the wildfires in Maui, and …
GROTON - Students in Groton have narrowed the field of potential mascots to three choices: the Groton Red Hawks, the Groton Grizzlies, or the Groton Steamrollers. Groton students researched …
