Giving in the service of others is a universal moral imperative, whether religious, moral or civic. We feel that it’s important to give back to the greater Cortland area community, our home. …
One year ago, we thought practical artificial intelligence was a sci-fi conceit. We read about it and knew researchers were making progress in tech start-ups and university labs, but it was like …
The greater Cortland area needs a clinic that dispenses methadone. People addicted to opioids — and trying to kick the addiction — need all the support we can muster. Making them travel …
For small businesses, major outlays of capital are risky. Tens of thousands of dollars for new equipment or technologies could also be socked away to help weather a slow season, or hire another …
Symptomatic treatment: When medical care is focused on the symptoms, rather than the underlying cause. For example, treating a persistent headache with aspirin when the real problem is a brain tumor. …
Opioid addiction has became a significant threat to the well-being of a growing number of Cortland County area residents, harming them, those who love them and the community. Cortland County is …
If you think about it, an awful lot of people plunk themselves down in a friend’s living room every February to watch the biggest game in football, the Super Bowl. So why not help them plunk …
On the surface, a decision to switch Cortland County government’s retirees to a private health insurance plan from Medicare seemed like a no-brainer. It would save taxpayers $800,000 a year …
America has 62 National Heritage Areas, including four in New York. Soon, if all goes well, Cortland County will be part of the 63rd, and the fifth in New York: the Finger Lakes National Heritage …
During this time of year, as fall arrives, we often find ourselves rooting for college teams playing football, soccer or cross country. But when it comes to Tompkins Cortland Community College, …
As the school year begins, families with children attending Cortland and Homer public schools did not have to go through the annual chore of shopping for school supplies because the district took …
In 2000, the Federal Reserve in Buffalo found that in the cycle of people follow jobs, and jobs follow people, it all began with jobs follow people. The Federal Reserve in New York found the same in …
The cost of a pack of cigarettes in New York state increased $1 on Saturday, bringing the total tax to $5.35 per pack. While some may argue that increasing the cost of cigarettes will not persuade …
If you’re anything like us, you remember a time when, as fresh-faced kiddos, you were excited for the first day of a new school year. Of all the things swirling around our heads back then as we …
Our best advice: Don’t get both shots in the same arm. But do get them: influenza and the latest COVID booster. As we reported last week, health experts expect that after several …
New York’s budding cannabis industry has had a bumpy ride since the state decriminalized marijuana in 2019 and legalized adult recreational marijuana use in March 2021. Lawsuits, confusion and …
Tonight, the big news regarding opioid addiction will be a vigil marking International Overdose Awareness Day at Courthouse Park in Cortland. Expect many hugs, perhaps a few tears, memories both good …
A proposed housing development along Mott Road and Route 13 in the village of Dryden would increase the village population more than 50% and drastically alter life in the community. That said, …
Cortland County’s last strategic plan — adopted in 1978 — is hilariously out-of-date, and we are very, very late in creating a new plan to guide us for the next decade or so. If the …
Reading the news reports reminded us of Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...” The recollection …
Being in the information business, it should come as no surprise that we strongly support efforts at public accountability and access to, literally, “the halls of government” to the …
Hundreds of Cortland County government employees provide the community with lots of services, many of them behind the scenes and many of them thankless. One of the benefits of public service that …
Opioid-related deaths, which had already increased almost 300% between 2010 and 2020 in New York, only skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic — another 68% between 2019 from 2021, according …
The Cortland County Legislature will decide Thursday whether to approve $100,000 to cover increasing costs of medical services to County Jail inmates. Legislators don’t have much of a choice, …
The comic strip comes to mind every year about this time. Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes, realizes he has only days left in summer vacation before school resumes, and he hasn’t made his quota of …
