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Cincinnatus Central School art students won a second place for design in the Olympics of the Visual Arts Competition, said Macksi Warner, art teacher at the school.

Bids approach $2.4 million for Gutchess complex expansion

Three companies made a pitch for a contract to add two baseball fields at Gutchess Lumber Sports Complex in Cortlandville. Who wins and who strikes out will be decided Monday.

State windfall lets Cortland take on more street work

An increase in state aid will allow the city of Cortland to spend about $1 million to install curbs along three city streets and replace a traffic light at Elm and Pomeroy streets.

Walking the walk for water

They walked for two hours Thursday — a classroom of third-graders carrying signs and asking for donations. But it was only two hours, not four, and only signs, not the water they need to live. …

SUNY Cortland police and Cortland County sheriff's officers found the body of a professor missing since Monday in a wooded area off Route 281 in Cortlandville, the Cortland County Sheriff's Office reported Wednesday morning.

LGBTQ resource center returning

Artwork of rainbow flags, one with two birds gazing at a rainbow-colored heart, lined the walls of the LGBTQ Resource Center, which has been closed since the coronavirus pandemic began. At the …

Dryden Dairy Day returns

DRYDEN — Children hopped up and down in anticipation of the Dryden Dairy Day parade Saturday. Sirens blared from the Village of Dryden Police Department vehicles, which led the parade, …

Parishioners of St. Anthony of Padua Church in Cortland assemble a procession Sunday morning around the East Side of Cortland as part of the second day of the St. Anthony’s Festival. COVID-19 …

Back on its feet

Helen Leet is not afraid to experiment. She made a painting of the Alps, a subject that is daunting in itself, with an unusual material — fiber paste mixed with acrylic paint — to get …

Christine Buck has a history lesson for us

When Christine Buck was young, she wasn’t too interested in her history classes. That would change years later, and now she can’t stop researching local history. Buck, a former …

Splash pads and pickeball

Elliott Davi, 8, once wrote to the Cortland mayor, saying his No. 1 wish for Randall Park was a splash pad. “There is an elephant that shoots out water out of its trunk,” he said …

‘A special, magical time’

Annamaria Maniaci regards herself as 1 1/2 generations of Italian, yet she still feels honored. “My mother is from Italy. My father was born here but he actually grew up in Italy,” she …

The lure of the outdoors

Durkee Park pond in Homer was lined with families on a sunny, temperate Saturday with parents teaching their children how to fish during the Jeff Stewart Youth Fishing Derby. It was mostly quiet at …

Small-town ceremonies mask large observance

The sun broke through the clouds just as the Homer High School marching band began pacing down Main Street in Homer. “That’s good luck, isn’t it?” asked Paula Senno of …

Westminster chimes sound in Cincinnatus

Beth MacRae never thought she’d see new chimes in the belfry of the Cincinnatus Area Heritage Society. A project of that scope would have taken years to pull off. Years. “I …

Keeping legacies alive

Richard Small gestured to a framed black-and–white photo of William Phelps, a strongly built man smiling in his Air Force uniform and bomber jacket. The picture was surrounded by medals, …

‘Our hearts are broken’

Prayer, song, candlelight, and mourning people filled a Cortland chapel Thursday during a vigil for victims of mass shootings in a Buffalo supermarket and a Texas elementary school. “We …

Memorial Day traditions return

Gary St. John adjusted the pad, kneeled down and scrubbed the gravestone.A splash of water, a switch to a smaller brush to clean a year’s worth of dirt, dust and grass from the engraved …

Helping to plant the Seeds of Hope

Ragtime music filled the air Saturday at Rose Hall in Cortland as Jazz Happens Band lew horns, plucked banjos and jammed keyboards before more than 30 people. In front of the stage, organizations …

Food Sense makes cents

Greater Cortland area food pantry officials report a program to help people — regardless of income — is seeing increased use as the prices of food escalate across the nation. Food …

At the top of her game

Sitting in her new office, Andrea Piedigrossi is excited, even though she has worked in the same place for 18 years. She could not have imagined herself as the head of the Cortland Youth Bureau …

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