by Logan Sweet | Jan 24, 2017 | Community Voices, Interviews, Local News, People of Corning, Unique Area Businesses
We?re all familiar with the Salem Witch Trials. We all know that in one infamous New England town, in 1692, women were accused of being witches by the hundreds and those who couldn?t prove their innocence, however hard they tried, were burnt at the stake. We?ve known...
by Brianna Van Osdol | Nov 16, 2016 | Best of Corning, Community Voices, Corning Museum of Glass, Local News, Local Trips, People of Corning
What started as an April Fools post by our very own Dave Rochelle, has now turned into a Southern Tier anomaly. Last night, Urban Corning had the honor of hosting 46 people eager to learn more about the possibility of adding a railroad route from Corning, NY to New...
by Brianna Van Osdol | Oct 6, 2016 | Interviews, Local News, People of Corning
The Wineglass Marathon brings individuals from all over the world to run for different reasons. For a special mother-son pair, their reasons were each other. I had the opportunity to sit down with Hollie Hughes, my former cross country coach, and her son Jonah, to...
by Logan Sweet | May 24, 2016 | Area Fun!, Best of Corning, Corning Museum of Glass, Local Arts, Local News, Local Trips
The Corning Museum of Glass opened The Studio?in 1996, to give artists a place to practice their craft and for the community and students to learn more about the art of glass making – an art that has quite literally put Corning on the map. In the twenty years...
by Logan Sweet | May 2, 2016 | Area Fun!, Corning Museum of Glass, Local News, Rockwell Museum
Corning is a tourist town. There’s just no sugarcoating it. In fact, Corning is the third most visited city in New York, coming in behind NYC and Niagara Falls, respectively. The Corning Museum of Glass is the biggest contributor to those tourism numbers,...
by Logan Sweet | Mar 24, 2016 | Area Fun!, Local Arts, Local News, Rockwell Museum
What do fine art, hot glass, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, vodka, Market Street, a flute and a tuba all have in common? The Urban Arts Crawl, that’s what.?The second installment of the wildly popular Urban Arts Crawl is tomorrow, from 5-8pm, and it’s...
