Will Cortland's Cortaca weekend repeat last year's Cortaca mayhem?

Hours before and after last year's Nov. 16 game in Ithaca, things in Cortland got so out of hand that the city had to call in the state Emergency Management Office and state troopers to help control crowds. A crowd of nearly 6,000 filled Clayton Avenue - a long hill lined with old houses that have been converted into student apartments - for a street party that saw cars tipped on their side, students leaping from roofs and furniture thrown into the street.

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Police charge two people with making meth in a travel trailer in Cortland County

Two people are charged with making methamphetamine in a travel trailer, the Cortland County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Deputies were called at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday to Scutt Hill Road where they found an empty, older travel trailer about 30 yards off the road, officials said.

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College town cops plan crackdown on rowdy behavior

... covered, slippery roads with poor visibility at times. Travel conditions may deteriorate for your morning commute. CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) -- Police plan to beef up their presence this weekend in Cortland in an effort to avoid the mayhem that followed ...

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Two charged with making meth in Cortland County

... equipement and other ingredients used for making meth. After they found the materials 32 year-old Corrie Ryan of Cortland and 22 year-old Chelin Kash of Homer were taken into custody. The Cortland County Sheriff's department charged both Ryan and ...

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Six area schools headed to state soccer playoffs this weekend - Jamesville-DeWitt has two teams

Six teams from Section III are headed to state soccer semifinals at Middletown and Cortland this weekend, including two from Jamesville-DeWitt High School. The boys play at multiple sites in Middletown, including two fields at the high school, one grass and one turf, and fields at Twin Towers Middle School near the high school.

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Former Messiah College student arrested for threatening other students on social media website, police say

... after police said he threatened students of the college on a social media website. Michael Joseph Diorio, 25, of Cortland, N.Y., is charged with misdemeanor counts of making terroristic threats and harassment. The charges were bound over to ...

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Justice of the Day - Samuel Nelson

... college in Vermont, graduating from Middlebury College in 1813. In 1817, Justice Nelson entered private practice in Cortland, New York, located south of Syracuse, and later served as the city's Postmaster from 1820 until 1823, when he left that ...

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