DRYDEN – Dryden hopes that with fewer fire departments, even with slightly higher budgets, it can bring a greater return on its fire safety investment in 2025, but its contract with its fire …

DRYDEN The town of Dryden’s Broadband Committee had encouraging news Friday about its growing service area, but also heard concerns about the availability of needed supplies. Committee …

DRYDEN – Six weeks after cutting back to five fire departments serving Dryden by stopping funding for the Brooktondale department, the Dryden town board further shrunk its roster of departments …

DRYDEN – Life for the people behind Dryden Fiber grew somewhat more exciting during November: a record 150 new requests for service. More than 50 yard signs have been placed on …

DRYDEN — Firefighters from four Tompkins County departments — three of them in the town of Dryden — will deploy to Orange County to fight a brush fire that has already killed one …

The number of flu and flu-like illnesses is rising in Central New York state data show, but overall, the number of cases is only slightly elevated from a year ago. Still, that comes as Tompkins …

LANSING — Tompkins County has banned open burning for 30 days following several brush fires, including one that damaged nearly 10 acres and injured three people Friday on East Shore Drive in …

DRYDEN – Dryden’s Town Board has reduced the number of fire departments serving the town from six to five, but doesn’t expect a decline in service when Jan. 1 rolls around. If …

DRYDEN – Other than $15,000 for a grant writer’s position and $25,000 to fund half the cost of a study of the town’s fire departments in 2025, the town of Dryden’s budget …

DRYDEN – The effort to make reliable affordable high-speed internet service available at every address in Dryden and Caroline, means that Dryden Fiber intends to do something about its — …

DRYDEN – The on-campus child-care center is somewhat new, as are the dormitories and some of its newest student activities, but the Tompkins Cortland Community College campus “remains a …

DRYDEN — Tompkins County sheriff’s deputies have identified a person who died in a Cortland Transit bus crash Wednesday in Dryden/ Kevin Welch, 63, of Cortland, was one of five passengers …

DRYDEN — A Cortland Transit bus was involved in an accident Wednesday afternoon in Dryden, requiring at least one person to be airlifted to a hospital and resulting in other injuries. The …

DRYDEN — Dryden’s effort to run an affordable, high-speed Internet service for the residents of Dryden and Caroline wrapped up the busiest month yet for the fledgling company. Dryden …

DRYDEN – Dryden Fiber plans to add thousands of homes in town in the next 100 days to the roster of addresses eligible to receive affordable high-speed internet service. The people leading …

DRYDEN – Tom Quinn’s land seems like a pleasant place to be buried. He’s planted about 30 trees, including five American chestnut trees, on about 100 acres in Dryden. And …

DRYDEN – At Ladies’ Night, you can build-a-bouquet, get a feather put in your hair, get a massage and your usual bagel and coffee. The second annual Ladies’ Night will be …

DRYDEN – The town of Dryden’s efforts to expand the reach of affordable, high-speed Internet service report a record-setting month in August. Dryden Fiber, still in its infancy, …

GROTON – The company seeking approval to develop a solar farm in two rural Tompkins County towns says it has held talks with the town of Groton, and has submitted a modified plan to the state …

GROTON – Groton’s Town Board plans Sept. 10 to tackle site-plan reviews for a 160-megawatt, 850-acre solar power development planned for Groton and the eastern side of the nearby town of …

ITHACA -- Not that long ago, Homer High School graduate Fletcher Kuiken was finishing his six-year career doing tactical-aircraft maintenance on U.S. Air Force F-35 fighters. But there was …

DRYDEN – Forty incoming Cortland ninth-graders had their first day of college Wednesday. Cortland Enlarged City School District students began the new Early College High School program at …

DRYDEN – If you have an overgrown plant, one you aren’t attached to, or some spare seeds or bulbs, you can soon trade them for something you love. Plant swaps, where you can buy, …