Dryden News

DRYDEN -- Students at Dryden High School could have fewer study halls as well as more classroom and elective opportunities if enrollment continues to trend downward, the board of education was told.

This Sunday afternoon, the Dryden Town Historical Society will be celebrating the accomplishments of the Bethel Grove community: In 19th century Bethel Grove, the local school was the heart of the community.

By the time readers lay eyes on Dryden Town Talk this week, the results of our county and town elections will be in, save the absentee ballots.

A Dryden man and Richford teenager are in Cortland County Jail today on charges they broke into a Marathon bowling alley and stole beer and money and also damaged several vending machines, Cortland County sheriff's deputies said.

Long-time legislator Michael Lane will be returning to the table after a count of absentee ballots on Thursday put him 104 votes ahead of Republican challenger Jim Crawford in the race to represent District 14 in the Tompkins County Legislature.

Yesterday's elections were close . Mike Lane has a 39-vote lead over Jim Crawford in unofficial returns for County Legislature District 14, 746-707, with 106 absentee ballots out there.

Most Dryden residents are voting in the same places that they used to vote, but if you voted at the Dryden Village Hall or the Dryden Baptist Church, you now vote at the Dryden Fire Station.

The Tompkins County Soil & Water Conservation District will host a Water Workshop for Real Estate Professionals from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov.

I've been annoyed that the Ithaca Journal web site seems to have descended into a chaotic and sometimes repetitive mix of news from the Ithaca, Elmira, and Binghamton papers.

Two suspected heroin dealers in Groton were arrested Wednesday after a multi-agency investigation of heroin trafficking in Tompkins County.

We're lucky in Dryden and Freeville to have a candidate for the Tompkins County Legislature with many years of experience serving in government that works.

I'm not yet sure how much of the Town they visited, but Google Maps seems to have added street views of a variety of places.

I urge the voters of the Town of Dryden to support the Democratic slate on Nov. 3. Mike Lane has served his constituents well for 12 years on the Tompkins County Legislature and needs to be elected again.

Tompkins County Sheriff Peter Meskill fought a legislator's recommendation Wednesday to chop nearly $90,000 earmarked for vehicle replacement from the county budget.

I encourage fellow residents of the Town of Dryden to support Jim Crawford's candidacy for the Tompkins County Legislature.

DRYDEN -- Four candidates are vying to fill two town board seats in Dryden on Nov.

They aren't exactly farms, but Dryden seems blessed with an abundance of nurseries and greenhouses.

When people think of farms in Dryden, they usually think of dairy farms and their supporting corn fields.

New York state's environmental regulations on gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale task local municipalities with important responsibilities on the front end and the back end.

Three Tompkins Cortland Community College students have been charged with burglarizing property from a Dryden storage facility.