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Vets to repair WWI memorial

The engraving around the circular white limestone World War I memorial in Courthouse Park in Cortland reads “Lest we forget Cortland County’s sons and daughters who served in the World …

Pavilion honors patron of play

For decades, if kids could play, Bob SanJule helped make it happen as chairman of the city Youth Advisory Commission. Two years after his death, his family has donated a pavilion at Suggett Park in …

Water clerk retires after 42 years

Mayors and council members and superintendents have come and gone over four decades. Stephanie Mattice has been a constant.  After nearly 43 years of city government service, Mattice, the …

Parker School in limbo after child-care project collapses

The city of Cortland will study its options for the former Parker Elementary School after two groups planning to convert the building to a child-care center announced they are dropping their project due to …

 The east end of the Main Street parking lot in Cortland will be closed through 5 p.m. Thursday, the Cortland Police Department announced Wednesday.  The closure is needed for …

Cortland County homeowners can get a coupon good for a $100 rebate on septic system maintenance if they attend one of three workshops on septic systems, the Cortland County Soil and Water …

Parker project dies

A plan to re-purpose the former Parker Elementary School in Cortland as a child-care facility operated by CAPCO and the YWCA of Cortland has died, organizers announced Tuesday. "All three partners …

The McGraw Central School District Board of Education will meet 6:30 p.m. Oct. 6 in the high school library.

The 2023 budget challenge

Municipalities are finally getting beyond the uncertainty and financial challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years as they draft their 2023 budgets. Still, they feel the pressure of …

Committee mum on Parker School project

The Parker School Committee, which has been planning a project to convert the former school into a child care center, met behind closed doors Monday and declined afterward to comment on their …

Taylor activists reunite after 30 years

They ate; they sang; they laughed; they cried; and they remembered the fight that changed their lives and homes. The Cortland County Historical Society had its Dumpbusters Reunion Saturday morning for participants and supporters of the Taylor low-level radioactive waste dumping protests to celebrate 30 years since a Supreme Court victory pivotal to keeping the waste out of Cortland County.

Cayuga County voters will decide a redistricting law in November that would place Moravia, Sempronius and Summerhill in the seventh legislature district, and Locke in the sixth. The Cayuga County …

Molinaro visits downtown Cortland

Business owners on Cortland’s Main Street told Congressional nominee Marc Molinaro of their problems Friday: difficulties hiring, child-care problems and more. Molinaro, a Republican and …

DRYDEN — The ninth annual Dryden Rotary Run is 10 a.m. Oct. 1 at Dryden Lake Park, the Rotary has announced. The event features a 5K walk, and five- and 10K races. Proceeds benefit the …

The Cortland Department of Public Works will begin paving Monday on Jewett Avenue and Dunsmore Avenue, it reported Thursday. It will then finish the paving there, and add top courses to Cowance, …

Truxton hires contractor to repair collapsed hillside

Truxton will hire a contractor to shore up a hillside that collapsed in April and slid across Morgan Hill Road, which has since been limited to one lane of traffic, Town Supervisor Lloyd Sutton Jr. …

Homer police, senior project gets village nod

The Homer Town Board will consider a plan Oct. 5 to renovate the town hall’s basement to house village police and space for a Homer senior program, Town Supervisor Fred Forbes St. said …

Nine Cortland High School graduates will be added to the John J. Pilato Sr. Distinguished Alumni Wall of Fame in the first induction in four years, on Oct. 1. Mick Lowie, chairman of the Wall of …

Cortland folks show they care

Many hands make light work. United Way for Cortland County had its 27th annual Day of Caring Wednesday, welcoming county residents from all walks of life to beautify and restore community …

Unexpected obstacles slow Clinton Ave. rebuild

Things that hold up reconstruction of Clinton Avenue in Cortland: electrical ducts where nobody expected them; a lot of groundwater near the railroad tracks; and the tour bus weaving its way along a …

A roundtable discussion Oct. 6 will explore ways Cortland County residents can become involved in local democracy, SUNY Cortland has announced. The in-person program at the college, “Getting …

City to order facilities study

The city of Cortland plans to hire consultants to help decide how to best use space in its buildings. The Cortland Common Council voted, 7-0, Tuesday evening to authorize a request for proposals to inventory and review city-owned facilities. Councilman Seth Thompson (D) 5th ward was absent.

More than 2,000 National Grid employees donated time at 200 events across the 26,000-square-mile New York service area as part of its Project C, the utility reported Monday. In Cortland, workers …

City plans hearing today on city manager job

The Cortland City Common Council plans to set a public hearing tonight to create a city manager position that would oversee the daily operation of the city. The vote comes five days after the …

Fuel, other costs, pile up on municipalities

The Cortlandville Town Highway Garage is a microcosm of many of the nation's economic hardships, where the cost of truck tires has doubled, rising fuel costs slashed seasonal road work and jobs go …

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