Higher education

Colleen Leontovich admits that one of the best things she's ever done was make the decision to go back to college.

“I just feel like there's not really anything that I can't do whereas before I thought I couldn't accomplish anything,” she said.

After a near 25-year gap, Leontovich, 43, of Auburn, returned as a student to Cayuga Community College in 2005 and is now three semesters away from obtaining an associate degree in business administration. And she's not stopping there. She intends to pursue a bachelor's degree and aspires to work in human resource management.