
Boyer & Ritter
Regional accounting and professional services firm Boyer & Ritter has hired seven staff members for a variety of roles. Darren Bailey joins Boyer & Ritter’s

Regional accounting and professional services firm Boyer & Ritter has hired seven staff members for a variety of roles. Darren Bailey joins Boyer & Ritter’s

Nonprofit preservation group Lancaster Conservancy paid $3.5 million for a roughly 180-acre tract of forested land in Chanceford Township, York County, according to county deed records. The seller was a partnership called Stone Fence Acres LP, linked to Jeff Koons, an internationally acclaimed artist and York County native. The purchase price reflected the land’s appraised value, […]

There were times it seemed too complicated to pull off. But after five years, the owners of Lancaster-area logistics business Founders Market & Co. found a way to start selling company shares to their employees. The owners — Scott Martino, Matt Stargel and Alex Thompson — began contemplating some form of employee ownership after they took […]

Bill Fredericks and Len Bradley have been named principals of RGS Associates, a landscape architecture, land planning and civil engineering firm based in Lancaster. Fredericks, previously a client manager, has more than 15 years of experience in land development projects, including senior living communities, commercial developments and industrial sites. Bradley, previously an engineering supervisor, has […]

Maple Donuts has hired a CEO following its sale in June to a consortium of private investors led by Swander Pace Capital. The new chief is Greg Somerville, who worked most recently as president and CEO of Savencia Cheese USA, a subsidiary of a French company. Somerville has more than 25 years of leadership experience in consumer goods, including […]

The shutdown of the federal government is stalling a critical pipeline for loans to small businesses. Like the rest of the government, the U.S. Small Business Administration has been closed since Oct. 1. As a result, the agency is unable to formalize its guarantee to repay loans if small-business borrowers cannot. The guarantees encourage lenders to […]

The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. The nonprofit has added two executives to its C-suite. Ted Simes joined the regional food bank in July as COO. The Lancaster County native worked most recently as a branch manager for logistics and engineering company CTDI. He also was previously director of operations and food safety at Reading-based food ingredient distributor Lentz […]

Pennsylvania’s top lawyer plans to press ahead in a lawsuit over controversial power lines proposed for York and Franklin counties even after a federal court ruled in favor of the company behind the project. The decision by Attorney General Dave Sunday opens a new chapter in the four-year-old legal battle over the power lines, proposed […]

Hal Carney has been named chief revenue officer for The YGS Group, a York-based content and communications company. The role oversees revenue growth, margin improvement and other initiatives. Carney worked most recently as executive vice president of the York-Adams region for Orrstown Bank and PeoplesBank, which was acquired by Orrstown last year. Before that, he was a regional […]

Convenience-store operator Rutter’s has opened its first outpost in Virginia. The York-based company opened a 14,000-square-foot store yesterday in Winchester, a town along Interstate 81 in Virginia’s northernmost corner. It is the 91st location for Rutter’s, which also has stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. The store features the chain’s new sports bar concept, […]