A reel chance to shine
Peter Hartsock used his 1800-era home on South Main Street, Homer, to film “The House on Pumpkin Drive.” The 15-minute movie, a horror in a comic setting, will appear at the Blackbird Film Festival at […]
By Katie Keyser
A Relay makes a difference
Bradyn “Beeda” Schmidt was just a toddler when he had leukemia. “I remember some stuff,” said the 16-year-old Cortland High student who’s been cancer free 10 years. “I remember I was in a bed, like, […]
Chronicling his journey
When the Rev. Daniel Nicewonger’s doctor told him he had stage four colon cancer and to go home and get his affairs in order, life got very real — quickly. “I gained a clarity about […]
Multi-tasker slows down
Stacey Goldyn-Moller, 46, of Cortland, is owner of Magpie Custom Creations at the Cortland Corset Building on East Court Street in Cortland. “Before that I did everything and anything,” she said. Moller has a master’s […]
Music legacy sculpture in full swing
Scott Oldfield is enjoying the steady pace of his latest public artwork at SUNY Cortland — a wall sculpture that will highlight the college’s musical legacy between 1960 and 1990. “It’s getting there. It’s all […]
The Alpha of the Omegathon
Brian Horan plays just about every kind of video game there is. “I play everything from puzzle games like Candy Crush (I don’t play that that much), Match Three — hidden object games — all […]
Ames, Buggs get Zonta honor
Johanna Ames, president of Ames Linen, said she probably should have majored in economics in college. The Cortlandville woman, 42, a geography major, came back to Cortland after graduating from Colgate University and agreed to […]
Lights in the dark
The skies of Virgil are very dark — and that’s good, when you are studying the stars. Richard Berg, a retired astronomer, built an observatory on his 60-acre property, a small building with a 7-foot […]
Rock Garden Group show antidote to winter
Jae Oh of Homer said her father is her role model. When the late Hang Yung Lee, a lawyer, professor and poet, sent her a poem about the Cortland area, she put it into a […]
V-U-L-N-E-R-A-B-L-E: DeRado wins Cortland spelling bee
Matt DeRado did not expect to win the Cortland Youth Bureau’s 55th annual spelling bee. “I was nervous, mainly because I had to spell in front of all my peers,” he said, after it was […]