The residential real estate market is poised to enter the traditionally busy spring and summer season. But buyers in Central Pennsylvania are still waiting for
Harrisburg-based insurance agency URL Insurance Group has promoted eight staff members.Matt Allina has been promoted to life markets manager. He joined URL as a life markets specialist in 2004. He was the life markets final expense manager for several years and will now use his knowledge of all life insurance products to drive growth and […]
Jeff Balestrini has been hired chief consumer lending officer for Members 1st Federal Credit Union, an Enola-based lender, effective March 10. He succeeds Jeff Ernst, who retired last year after more than three years in the role, according to a credit union spokesperson.Balestrini worked most recently as chief lending officer at Service 1st Federal Credit Union in […]
Doug Barton has been hired as the first-ever CFO for Saxton & Stump, a Lancaster-based law firm.Barton worked most recently as director of financial planning and analysis at Harrisburg-based Orrstown Bank, which merged last year with York-based Codorus Valley Bancorp. Over his nearly four-decade career, Barton also has worked for accounting firms Baker Tilly and Beard & Co., as well as Sterling […]
Finanta, a nonprofit based in Lancaster, is expecting millions of dollars from the federal government this year to further its mission, which includes lending to businesses in poor communities.But the federal fund that provides those dollars is among several programs targeted for cuts or possible elimination under an executive order issued late Friday by President Donald […]
Daniel Hicks has joined the litigation group in the Radnor office of law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick.Hicks will focus on fiduciary litigation, guardianship matters and Orphans’ Court proceedings, further strengthening the firm’s presence in the Greater Philadelphia area.Before joining McNees, Hicks practiced in the areas of general liability, personal injury and medical malpractice. Hicks […]
Patricia Donley has been named chief nursing executive for WellSpan Health, a regional health system based in York. She succeeds Kasey Paulus, who was named WellSpan’s COO in November.Donley began her career at WellSpan as a candy striper volunteer assisting nurses at WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon.Trained as a nurse, she rose through the ranks to […]
Michael Doweary has joined York College as its next CFO and vice president for finance, effective July 1. Doweary, a graduate and trustee of York College, is succeeding interim CFO Matthew Smith. “Michael’s financial acumen, leadership experience and deep commitment to organizational leadership make him the ideal choice to guide the college’s financial strategy,” York College […]
The legal fight over a proposed hydroelectric project along the Susquehanna River is ramping up.Regional conservation groups are asking a federal court to take another look at a preliminary permit granted in November to the $2.3 billion project, which would take up about 1,000 acres in Chanceford Township, York County. The permit allows Reading-based developer York Energy Storage LLC up […]
Gratz, a borough in northern Dauphin County, has lost a second case challenging its opposition to a proposed solar project within its borders.In the first case, decided in October 2023, a state court ruled that the borough failed to properly advertise a meeting where it tightened standards for solar energy systems.The revised standards would have impeded […]
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