Communities

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 …

Seedstock sprouts again after hiatus

The sun shone down Saturday afternoon as musicians on stage entertained crowds gathered on a grassy hillside behind a Cortlandville house as the Seedstock music festival resumed after a two-year …

The woodchucks win

They came to fight. They came dressed as woodchucks. Thirty years later, the people who stopped the state and federal governments from placing a low-level radioactive waste facility in Taylor …

The Cortland Enlarged City School District Board of Education plans two meetings: Audit and Finance Committee, 9 a.m., Tuesday at the Kaufman Center, 1 Valley View Drive. Regular Board of …

Cortlandville seeks grant for historic cemetery marker

A small cemetery tucked away among commercial and retail developments along Route 13 in South Cortland is a link to early county residents’ Revolutionary War roots and the town wants to …

The Tompkins County Legislature is asking residents and businesses to complete a survey to help determine the county's need for broadband, and its opportunities. The Tompkins County Department …

The Cincinnatus Central school board will meet 6:30 p.m. Sept. 22 in the school library.

A parade and reception will be Saturday in Marathon to thank veterans for their service, a community service project by Janet Elston, the past president of the American Legion Auxiliary's 6th …

Marathon's Union Fair uses the past to inspire the future

The town of Marathon hopes to inspire its next generation by exploring its distant past. Marathon had its annual 1890 Union Fair Saturday, celebrating its rural and agricultural history with …

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