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Susan Eligh said she doen’t think there’s anyone in Scott who doesn’t have one of her crocheted tote bags. The retired Cortland High social studies/law teacher uses discarded plastic shopping bags to make her totes. […]
World War II veteran John Lansdowne said everywhere he went in Washington D.C., people came up to him and said, “Thank you for serving our country.” “And to this young guy I says, ‘You don’t […]
Twelve-year-old Rena May knows that whatever she shares in the GEMS Girls Group is safe. “It’s made me happy,” she said of the weekly meetings, sponsored by the YWCA of Cortland. “It lets me have […]
Ty Marshall said after 12 years of bringing national acts to the Center for the Arts of Homer, it’s only just named the Green Room after McNeil and Company — for the company’s years of […]
McGraw High senior Skylar White knows full well what it’s like to help someone else. “I regularly volunteer for student council, do dinners for the elderly, help with the Empty Bowls fundraiser. I have done […]
Emily Gibbons, the executive director of the Cultural Council of Cortland County, is leaving the post to move to Scranton, Pennsylvania. “It was a hard job, but a good job,” said Gibbons, 30, of the […]
Doug Deer has moved five times as a Baptist minister. And every time he moves, he has to rebuild his train layout. The Cortland man, 65, now retired, has spent the last year and a […]
Chris Merkley said every year, it would get harder to fit all the bands playing at Seedstock into one day. He and fellow organizer Tyler Coakley decided this year’s Seedstock VIII would be different: Three […]
Dana Twigg said forget what he’s “supposed to do.” The musician, who grew up in West Groton, said he did what he wants to do on his latest album — “Better View” — exploring a […]
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