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Basically-a-salad tacos give chickpeas flare

As much as I love the processed, freakishly accurate artificial meat, sometimes it’s nice to be able to whip up your own protein as a vegetarian. These chickpea tacos are comically simple, …

The Cortland County Office for Aging is offering a weekly ongoing Good Grief Circle for one hour at 2 p.m. Wednesdays at the Age Well Center, 165 Main St., Cortland. The meeting is a gathering …

The Imagination Celebration showcasing the art of elementary and high school students will be on exhibit from March 24 to April 5 at the Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland. An opening reception will …

Put on the waterproof shoes and dress in layers, the Lime Hollow Nature Center will have Maple Sugarin’ Day March 22. The event, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., will include syrup-making …

The Dry County Welders will appear on stage March 21 at Rose Hall on Church Street in Cortland. The five-piece rock band will also appear with Upstate Centra. Dry County Welders formed in …

Plan your fun

Here’s a sampling of what’s going on in the greater Cortland area. MUSIC March 15: James McMurtry, 8 p.m., Center for the Arts of Homer. March 21: Dry County Welders, 7:30 …

The publisher has no morels

The publisher does something that alternately amazes and leads me to conclude he’s nuts. Or both simultaneously. He forages for mushrooms. I’m a big mushroom fan, myself. The …

A safe space for family caregivers to share their experiences, challenges and successes meets from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month. The meeting is available in person at …

Barb Gage and Chuck Kasten won Friday’s duplicate bridge game with 13.5 points. Lorraine Khouri and Gail Briggs were second with tied with Jean Minnela and Marilyn Delorenzo for second …

The Tribe will have an opening reception from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday at the Age Well Center in Cortland for its display of memorial flags, a First Friday event. The Tribe started as a group of …

Homer High School to open ‘Into the Woods’

This year’s musical at Homer High School has more than 100 additional pages in the script, compared to last year’s “Beauty and the Beast.” The Homer High School Drama …

‘Every song is me’

Since learning to play guitar, Ana Popovic has never stopped. She’s never stopped performing, trying new genres, performing new places, or expanding to new genres. Singer, songwriter, …

Suzanne Vega, whose songwriting spans five decades and two Grammies, will bring her folk revival to to the Center for the Arts of Homer on Saturday. Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folk …

Plan your fun

Here’s a sampling of what’s going on in the greater Cortland area. MUSIC March 7: Jim Messina, 8 p.m. Center for the Arts of Homer. March 8: Suzanne Vega, 8 p.m., Center …

Playing it Forward, a concert to honor musicians and to raise money for music programs in several schools, will be March 29 at the Center for the Arts of Homer. The concert, first known as the …

A 300-year-old joke is still a good meal

My spousal unit, The Brain, has been wanting to eat a bit less meat. Who am I to argue? One, she’s one of the five smartest people I’ve ever met, and she’s never wrong. Two, …

A free presentation Thursday will outline how people with dementia might use behavior to communicate needs and emotions, rather than words. The seminar will also discuss how dementia changes a …

Barb Gage and Chuck Kasten won Friday’s duplicate bridge game with 16.5 points. Laura Simon and Linda Christy were second with 15.5 points. Jean Minnela and Marilyn Delorenzo were …

The importance of prevention

March 17 to 23 is National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week organized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Every year in March, National …

A safe space for family caregivers to share their experiences, challenges and successes meets from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month. The meeting is available in person at …

Light-house You warm star-body, lighting your way through my dark room, Felled embers from your eyes spilling on me, too A light hand like leaf, falling swiftly, brief …

The PFLAG Ithaca-Cortland Chapter will meet from 4 to 5 p.m. Sunday at 165 Main St., Cortland. The organization advocates for the LGBTQ community, and meetings can be attended virtually. Email …

Wake up and learn how to sleep

Why We Sleep – Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams By Matthew Walker, Simon & Schuster, 2017 In Tom Clancy’s counter-terrorism thriller, “Rainbow Six,” our hero …

Mariner 6 sends home crucial data about Mars

On Feb. 25, 1969, NASA launched the Mariner 6 probe to Mars. The spacecraft was to perform a close flyby of the planet and transmit the data it captured back to Earth. Mariner 6 was equipped …

Three-woman SUNY play opens tonight at CRT

Everything one goes through growing up has the potential to affect future relationships. These relationships are under a microscope in a play by three acting students out on at Cortland Repertory …

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