Restaurateur Victor Claffey is gearing up to open a restaurant called Bloom in the former Left Bank Restaurant and Bar in downtown York.Claffey, an Irish native with two decades
After her older brother died by suicide nearly 20 years ago, Kara McCaffrey felt drawn toward efforts to prevent others from following.“It’s just something that I’ve always cared about,” said McCaffrey, whose family owns Houck Group, a regional construction contractor based in West Hanover Township, Dauphin County.The personal became professional when she started working in […]
Stephen Loiseau has been named vice president of corporate development for PennSpring Capital. It is a new role for the Lancaster-based private equity firm and involves overseeing growth for companies in PennSpring’s investment portfolio.Loiseau worked most recently as a sales rep for tech startup Motive. He also has experience as a principal in a real estate […]
Yesterday’s half-point cut to interest rates will make businesses more comfortable with borrowing, particularly if they have an immediate need to spend.However, others may continue to hold off, anticipating further rate cuts and awaiting the outcome of the presidential election in November.That’s the view of local financial executives who spoke yesterday with biznewsPA shortly after […]
Pennsylvania residents using medical cannabis to treat anxiety, chronic pain and other conditions saw improvements in their general health, emotional well-being, physical functioning and other quality-of-life measures over a three-month period, according to a study undertaken by researchers from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and funded by Organic Remedies, a Cumberland County medical-cannabis provider.Researchers recruited nearly 400 […]
Seth Allen has been named vice president of enrollment management and dean of admissions at Dickinson College. He succeeds Cathy McDonald Davenport, who retired in 2023 after more than three decades with the Carlisle college. Allen worked most recently as vice president for strategy and dean of admissions and financial aid at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he oversaw […]
The adoption of driverless vehicles in Pennsylvania depends on resolving a host of legal, regulatory and technical challenges. But it also may rest on cultivating a more positive public perception, judging by the reaction to draft guidelines for highly autonomous vehicles, or HAVs, published last month by PennDOT.HAVs include vehicles monitored and operated from a distance.The guidelines […]
Pennsylvania’s attorney general has set up an online portal where companies in Pennsylvania will be required to report data breaches under amendments enacted this year to the state’s breach notification laws. Signed into law in June, the amendments require companies to report breaches that affect at least 500 Pennsylvanians starting Sept. 26.In preparation for the […]
A tentative deal unveiled yesterday would slash the rate increases that were floated earlier this year for customers of Met Ed in Central Pennsylvania.In April, Met Ed parent FirstEnergy sought permission for a 9.2% rate hike for residential customers of Met Ed in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon and York counties.But after facing pushback during the regulatory process, FirstEnergy has […]
Maple Insurance Group. a Harrisburg-based agency has been acquired by Union Bay Acquisition LLC, a Lansdale-based insurance-agency aggregator. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Following the acquisition, Maple is expected to continue doing business under its own name, said Gultaiz Sultan, Maple’s founder and president.While other buyers have made offers for the agency, Sultan said he […]
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