Mark Kessler has joined Mid Penn Bank as senior vice president and regional director of private banking, based at the bank’s Malvern administrative center. Kessler
Sara Arndt has been promoted to senior vice president of success and operations at Saxton & Stump, a Lancaster-based law firm. She had been vice president of success and operations. Arndt will continue to partner with firm leadership and practice group leaders as the firm advances a multi-year transformation strategy focused on artificial intelligence, technology […]
Lisa Ritt has been named director of facilities at Community Progress Council, a York-based nonprofit. Ritt will lead strategic planning and day-to-day management of CPC’s more than 20 locations throughout York County. She brings more than 20 years of experience in facilities management across commercial and multi-site environments. She has held leadership roles overseeing facilities […]
State lawmakers moved yesterday to give some teeth to standards that Gov. Josh Shapiro proposed last month for data centers, including conditions on a lucrative tax break enjoyed by the facilities. The House Finance Committee narrowly approved legislation giving developers speedier state permit reviews in return for meeting minimum standards for protecting the environment, benefiting […]
Audra Hurd has been named chief technology officer for Penn-Mar Human Services. It is a new position for the nonprofit, which provides services and support to about 400 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Hurd, who has more than 20 years of nonprofit tech experience, worked most recently as […]
Thanks to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, state lawmakers now face two deadlines: one to pass a budget and one to figure out whether and how to regulate and tax skill games. Skill games — slot-like devices said to require some element of skill in order to win — have been operating in legal limbo for […]
Stacie Blake is resigning from her role as CEO of YWCA Lancaster effective in December. The nonprofit has formed a search committee, led by board members Dr. Gretchel Hathaway and Karen King, to find Blake’s successor. Blake has led YWCA Lancaster since September 2019. Under her leadership, the nonprofit launched the Center for Racial and Gender Equity […]
Mark Weber has been named president of Pennsylvania Chamber Insurance, a for-profit brokerage subsidiary of the Harrisburg-based Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry The position had been vacant for several years, according to a chamber spokesperson. The company, known as PCI, was led most recently by a pair of COOs who are no longer with the […]
Tom Beachler, president of Kreider Farms, is retiring this month after a career of more than 45 years at the Penn Township, Lancaster County-based dairy and egg producer. The company has not yet named a successor. But Beachler’s son, Ben, was named COO of Kreider Farms last year, according to a company spokesperson. Tom Beachler joined […]
A real estate affiliate of Lancaster-based housing nonprofit Community Basics Inc. paid $1.5 million for a former medical office building at 3045 Marietta Ave. in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, according to county deed records. The nonprofit aims to convert the roughly 15,710-square-foot building into 16 affordable units for people with disabilities experiencing homelessness. David […]