Cortland Arts Connect hopes to host free art workshops, encourage local authors to read their works and other free programs with a state grant. The arts organization recently received a $15,000 …
A group of artists are using their talents, and mutual love for cats, to help the full Cortland animal shelters. “Cat Tales: Artistic Renderings of Our Feline Companions,” is …
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of employees have walked in and out of the Cortland Standard ’s office at 110 Main St., Cortland, in the 140 years since it was erected. Among the …
Billy J. James started playing guitar at 7, and was playing professionally by 9. In 2015, he was inducted into the New York State Country Hall of Honor. On Sunday, he made it to the Hall of Fame. …
Last month, the OSIRIS-REX probe delivered rock samples to Earth from the asteroid Bennu, the first U.S. spacecraft to collect samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REX stands for Origins, Spectral …
Michael Stevans has been creating art since he left Vietnam 55 years ago. This December, his piece depicting the effects of Agent Orange will be at a national art competition in Washington D.C. …
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 …
This past week, I had the opportunity to speak with Preston Dyches of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Dyches is a professional science communicator who produces …
Think, for a moment, about the idea of “center.” What does “center” look like? How does it sound? How does motion work with “center?” What story can you tell …
A selection of some of the most-anticipated releases in October: • Being Henry: the Fonz…and Beyond, by Henry Winkler. • Blood Lines, by Nelson DeMille. …
The James Webb Space Telescope could have just discovered life on another planet. Earlier this month, James Webb detected the presence of methane and carbon dioxide on the exoplanet K2-18b. The …
I was one of seven members of the Dew Crew, my exercise group, who participated in the Kayak Bike Run Triathlon on Sept. 16 in Cassadaga. We had done triathlons for years, but this was something new …
Peter Serko heard stories about his great-great grandmother, Harriet, through his great-grandmother’s diaries. Using nearly century-old scrapbooks, news clippings and letters, he recently published his own.
I was disappointed last week when I found out that the Bruce Springsteen concert scheduled Thursday in Syracuse was canceled because Springsteen is sick. My kids gave me two tickets for …
On Sept. 5, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 probe launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Initially designed to study Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager continued to travel through space …
Look at the new mural at the Center for the Arts of Homer. It’s a creation of 36 clay tiles – millenia-old technology created by a bunch of teenagers – hanging in the box office. Wait a second. Is that a QR code on one of the tiles in the corner?
Ben had a bad spell back in May. He stopped eating for a few days, couldn’t get up without help, and only walked with assistance. By the time I got him in to see the vet, he was starting …
In the early morning of Aug. 26, SpaceX launched its seventh crew to the International Space Station. Crew-7 consists of four members from around the world: •Jasmin Moghbeli from NASA …
Betty Ann Pitman has played hardball and softball; she’s led children and saved lives – and for this, Pitman was named Cortland County 2023 Senior Citizen of the Year. The …
Two millionaires, and a boy who loved trees. Charles Yaple, a retired SUNY Cortland professor, has published a book following the lives of three men from Richford whom he believed changed the …
Camryn Davis, 7, of Cortland is a first-grader at F.S. Barry Primary School. On Wednesday, he was riding his bike at Beaudry Park while his brother played baseball.Camryn likes to play soccer and …
DRYDEN — Anne Clark and David Wilson of Dryden met in La Selva, Costa Rica 50 years ago. Recently the married couple took a three-week working trip back there to revisit the biological station. …
MacKenzie Heath, 32, of Cortland is the activity director at Crown Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.Heath was a certified nursing assistant, which led her to this job where she creates programs …
Garrett Giamei, 22, of Virgil, often uses the skate park at Yaman Park in Cortland to inline skate.Giamei is a student at Tompkins Cortland Community College focusing on environmental studies. He …
