David Hill

They’re called “clamshells.” They’re the clear-plastic often standing between us and our newly purchased electronics. Sometimes annoyingly hard to open, they serve the seller’s purpose of protecting their product yet allowing it to be displayed for…

Where once cartons of cigarettes would have been stacked on the still-shiny hardwood floors now stand shelves lined with Lego boxed sets wrapped tightly in glistening clear plastic. The air has a tangy tobacco scent as workers pick the boxes off the…

PACKING IT UP — Steve Klepadlo, owner of Broasters Coffee Company, packages up coffee at his shop located in the old City Hall buidling. Laurie Cowan had her first coffee as a six-year-old around her mother’s kitchen table, and she remembers how the…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill The images on the skateboards, T-shirts and, above all, videos made by The Barren Co., of Binghamton, seem bleak, but the message is not. The Barren Co. consists of three young men from the Binghamton area who…

Southern Tier companies, universities lead in getting patents but small companies have role, too dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill He’s listed as the inventor on more than a dozen patents, but don’t expect Paul McCabe to bring them up in a social…

Southern Tier aims to capitalize on beverage tourism If you step into the unassuming tap room at the Farmhouse Brewery in Owego and order Taste of the Farmhouse, you get 15 sample-size glasses containing a baker’s dozen of beers brewed on-site, a…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill Perhaps there was a time when most anyone applying for a job at a factory already knew how to use tools like torque wrenches. Young people worked on their cars or took care of the tractor on the family farm, and…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill Chenango County Greek yogurt maker Chobani got a lot of attention when founder Hamdi Ulukaya announced April 26 he's giving about 10 percent of the company stock to employees. But it’s hardly the first time…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill If you want to have almost-guaranteed work with high pay without having to get a terminal degree, be a nurse practitioner specializing in psychiatry. Binghamton University’s Decker School of Nursing, the region’s…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill Sick people and students might be helping Binghamton and Johnson City adapt to a new economy. Binghamton Mayor Rich David and Johnson City Mayor Greg Deemie were the speakers Thursday at the monthly SUNY BEST…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill When veteran retailer Jan Rhodes Norman first got wind of American Express and Small Business Saturday, she was skeptical. After all, her signature was on Ithaca Hours, the local currency that circulated in…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill Plan calls for year-round food manufacturing and an exchange for providers and customers Binghamton University, Cornell University and SUNY Broome provide resources A group of business people hope to turn…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill Can the Southern Tier grow jobs with the sun? Advocates of solar power think so, and the handful of companies venturing into the emerging solar design and installation business say that's what they're doing. The…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill Jon Layish started Red Barn Technology Group Computing in 1996 when a friend in computer science at Binghamton University complained there was nowhere locally to get computer parts and service. Now, Red Barn is…

dhill@ithacajournal.com | @Ijdavidhill Former NCR factory on South Hill now develops products for high-tech specialized thermal printersNCR at its height employed 1%2C000 people on South Hill. CognitiveTPG employs about 40 thereThe company's core…