Wyatt Behringer has been named communications and development manager for the High Foundation effective Dec. 1. He will lead the Foundation’s communications and marketing strategy
WITF parent organization Pennon will spend $2.3 million during its current fiscal year to unwind its ownership of a Lancaster newspaper company. The money is coming out of an endowment fund established with the proceeds WITF received in 2017 from a federal auction of broadcast spectrum, according to documents presented to Pennon’s board at a meeting yesterday. The […]
The Hanover Co., a Houston-based developer, is planting a pair of warehouses on a tract in Conewago Township, York County. The company, which is partnering with a real estate fund advised by Dallas-based Crow Holdings Capital and lender J.P. Morgan, broke ground on the project Friday and expects to wrap up construction by early 2027. The project includes […]
Orie Chambers has been named president of WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital in Lancaster County effective Nov. 30. Chambers has been interim leader of the 141-bed facility since former president Tina Citro was named president of WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon County. Chambers has worked at WellSpan Ephrata since 2011, when he started as clinical director […]
Tom Baldrige, the former head of the Lancaster Chamber, has been named interim president and CEO of Pennon, the Swatara Township, Dauphin County-based parent of public broadcaster WITF and news publisher LNP Media Group. Pennon board chair Leigh Horner had been leading the nonprofit since the resignation in October of former president and CEO Ron Hetrick. Baldrige, who led the Lancaster […]
A specialty clothing distributor is shuttering a warehouse and laying off 128 workers in northern York County just over a year after taking over the building from its former owner. In a notice to state and local officials, Illinois-based S&S Activewear said it plans to close its distribution center at 600 Industrial Drive in Fairview Township by […]
Kathryn Silcox has been named a senior counsel for Lancaster-based law firm Saxton & Stump. She will work out of the firm’s Harrisburg and York offices in the municipal law and real estate groups. Silcox has served as a magisterial district judge for Hampden and Silver Spring townships in Cumberland County since 2013. At Saxton […]
Wilsbach Distributors Inc., a beverage distributor based in Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County, has acquired Brewery Products Co. a distributor based in Springettsbury Township, York County, according to Wilsbach president Frank Sourbeer Jr. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal does not expand Wilsbach’s territory, which covers 11 counties in southcentral Pennsylvania, Sourbeer said. But […]
A state appeals court has barred a Philadelphia-area community college from putting a project out to bid after a regional contractor group raised legal questions about union-friendly requirements attached to the process. The $1 million project — for construction of an advanced HVAC training lab at Bucks County Community College — was put out to […]
Entrepreneur Abby Shank began developing a tiny home community near Elizabethtown in 2017 at the dawn of what became one of the hottest trends in residential real estate. Nearly a decade later, the 73-home Tiny Estates LLC community in Mount Joy Township has a new owner. A New Jersey-based partnership called Tiny Estates Lancaster LLC paid $6.1 million last […]