A glimmer of good news for Corning

It’s been a bruising couple of years for the Corning plant in Canton. The facility has had to cut its workforce more or less in half and endure several shutdowns.

There’s some good news today. The plant successfully lured a new line of Polarcor glass from a soon-to-be-shuttered plant in Virginia, according to the Watertown Daily Times. Good news for Cantonians; bad news for Virginians.

The new line will only create 8 new jobs or so. But as St. Lawrence County economic development chief Ray Fountain told the paper, just keeping jobs in today’s economy is a major achievement. Gaining any jobs is a bonus.

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