The document summarizes local news from Binghamton, New York on November 27, 2011. It discusses the successful Maine-Endwell football team looking forward to next season with many returning players. It also mentions a basketball game between BU and Missouri. Additionally, it covers small businesses benefitting from "Small Business Saturday" promotions and local shoppers supporting small, local shops for unique gifts. Finally, it provides an overview of Steuben Glass, an iconic American crystal company, preparing to close its factory after over a century of operations due to financial difficulties.

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SUNDAY, November 27, 2011 Binghamton, N.Y.
INSIDE TODAY
AND FOR AN ENCORE, TRANSITION FROM
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» One state championship is a lifetime
AN EARLY BIRD. IN LIFE
accomplishment, but here’s the fantastic news
for the Maine-Endwell football team: 17 of its
starting players will be back next year.
» ALSO: The winless BU men’s basketball team
A HOLIDAY MESSAGE
plays at No. 21 Missouri today. FROM THE FIRST FAMILY.
SEE SPORTS, PAGE 1F IN USA WEEKEND
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY
Out of the BIG box
An early piece of Steuben Glass from
Thomas Dimitroff's collection is shown at
the Corning museum. ASSOCIATED PRESS
When
excellence
is no longer
Nationwide promotion helps
CASEY STAFF / STAFF PHOTO
Above,
Melissa and
sustainable
Jackie » After producing some of
encourage holiday crowds Petruzzi take
turns smelling the world’s finest crystal
By Debbie Swartz
hand-crafted for 108 years, Steuben Glass
stores for a more quaint and qui- soaps at
and Nancy Dooling et shopping experience. Tom's Coffee, prepares to close its factory.
dswartz@gannett.com Owego wasn’t the only town Card & Gift in By Ben Dobbin
benefitting from shoppers look- Binghamton. Associated Press
Not everyone is looking for a ing for unique holiday gifts
2 a.m. holiday blowout sale. while trying to spend their dol- Left, a CORNING
There are still plenty of people lars locally. customer
I
n a memorable Hollywood scene
who appreciate all that a small In Binghamton, shoppers leaves Hand from “Risky Business,” the 1983
gift shop offers, according to a of Man in comedy drama that launched Tom
filled the narrow aisles of Tom’s
survey of shoppers Saturday. Owego. Cruise to stardom, a mother’s
Coffee, Cards & Gifts on Main
“When I’m looking for some- Owner Pat prized Steuben glass egg goes missing
Street. Hansen said
thing unique, something special Because it was “Small Busi- from the mantelpiece only to reappear
for someone, I come downtown,” business — imperceptibly nicked — in the nick
ness Saturday,” customers who might be a
said Carmel Buneo, of Owego. mentioned the national cam- of time.
Buneo was shopping in her little better Steuben Glass, an American icon of
paign got a 20 percent discount than last year.
hometown Saturday, along with handcrafted crystal for over a century,
from owner Tom Kelleher.
scores of others, looking to es- looks now as if it’s vanishing for good.
cape crowded malls and big-box See LOCAL Page 12A DEBBIE SWARTZ / STAFF PHOTO Its lone facto-
ry in Corning is
shutting down
on Tuesday.
Readers’ advice to new BU president: With profitabili-
ty elusive at the
best of times,
Place focus on economic development the prospects of
reviving the
108-year-old
vanity brand
Stenger urged to boost efforts with industry READ MORE
Readers respond to our survey. See what
seem every bit
as slim.
By George Basler over as BU’s seventh they had to say. PAGE 8A While the
gbasler@gannett.com president Jan. 1. The matchlessly
State University of New dents want Stenger to focus on seeking a transparent glass is still acclaimed as
VESTAL — Helping economic develop- York’s Board of Trustees stronger collaborative effort between the lodestar of lead crystal, Steuben
ment in the Southern Tier should be named him the new pres- the university and local technical-based has struggled to find its footing in old
high on the list of priorities for Harvey ident last week. industries, according to many who took age — never more so than since 2008
G. Stenger, Binghamton University’s in- Stenger will be on the part in the survey. when glass pioneer Corning Inc. sold
coming president, an online survey of BU campus Monday This will require working closely with the ailing business to Schottenstein
pressconnects.com and Press & Sun- along with Board of Stenger community leaders “to identify viable Stores Corp., a retail-chain operator in
Bulletin readers indicates. Trustees Chairman H. Carl McCall and areas of development akin to the types Columbus, Ohio.
Stenger, interim provost SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher.
at the University at Buffalo, will take As far as priorities, survey respon- See PRESIDENT Page 8A See STEUBEN Page 10A
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