Hadassah Mativetsky News Today

Weis Markets is planning to close one of its Binghamton stores in 2024. Residents and government leaders are searching for options to fill the gap.

Residents turned out at Wednesdays Binghamton City Council meeting to voice concern about the closure of the Weis Market at 307 Conklin Ave.

March 17, 2021 As a recent grad during the 2008 economic downturn, Hadassah Mativetsky ’07, MS ’12, worked as a server at a banquet hall in downtown Binghamton. The Binghamton University Alumni Association held an event there during one of her shifts, and Mativetsky saw how the University honored distinguished graduates as well as young up-and-comers who were making a difference for their alma mater. The evening’s key messages and convivial atmosphere stoked her Binghamton pride — which...