CORTLAND City council on Monday approved first drafts of ordinances that would give all council members and the mayor their first raises since 2014. If p
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CORTLAND – At a recent city council meeting, Mayor Deidre Petrosky announced May to be Monarch Butterfly Education Month in the city.
Petrosky said in March she received an email encouraging her to join the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge a program put on by the National Wildlife Foundation.
“I knew nothing about it so I did my research and found the population (of monarch butterflies) has dropped 90 percent since the 1990s. That really shocked me,” Petrosky said.
The Mayors’ Monarch Pledge program launched in 2015 to engage cities and communities in monarch and pollinator conservation, according to the foundation’s website. There are over 300 different communities nationwide that have signed the pledge. Of those communities, there are 11 in Ohio and Cortland is the lone community in Trumbull and Mahoning counties.
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