Always Lancaster, the nonprofit publisher of LNP LancasterOnline has named digital media veteran Mike Orren as the news outlet’s CEO. He rounds out an LNP
The ball has landed in Penn State‘s court. After a year of planning and community engagement, York leaders pitched Penn State last month on a vision for the future of the university’s York campus, which is slated to close in May 2027. Penn State acknowledged receipt but made no commitments. “We appreciate the thoughtful process YCEA […]
Nearly four months after they started construction on a shared headquarters near Mount Joy, two Lancaster County companies landed a low-interest state loan to cover a portion of the nearly $17.2 million price tag. State officials said yesterday they approved a $2.25 million loan to Strickler Investments LLC, a real estate affiliate of solar installer Paradise Energy […]
Column by Brandon Rogers The longer someone leads, the less impressed they become with raw talent alone. Experience has a way of teaching leaders that
Carroll Construction Supply, a building products supplier based in Ottumwa, Iowa, paid $6.2 million for a roughly 30,000-square-foot industrial property at 225 Hanover Road in West Manchester Township, York County, according to county deed records. It had been owned by a local investor doing business as 225 Hanover Partners LLC. Jason Grace, CEO of Camp Hill-based Landmark […]
A state House panel yesterday passed legislation authorizing tax credits for small businesses that help their employees pay for health insurance. The legislation, which was adopted on a party-line vote, is designed to offset higher costs faced by people buying insurance through the Affordable Care Act. How would it work: Under House Bill 2550, businesses with […]
Trustees of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College voted yesterday to shed more real estate as they seek to close the school’s budget deficit. The school, which is getting a new president this week, already is selling two buildings in the York area. Joining them on the market are buildings in Gettysburg, Harrisburg and Lancaster. They include HACC’s […]
Pennsylvania’s tax collectors have dropped a controversial proposal designed to clarify the corporate income they believe should be taxed. Put forward in spring 2024, the proposed rule aimed to settle long-running sources of friction between the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue and corporate taxpayers by defining just what kinds of business income are subject to taxation […]
The owner of a Lititz-area wireless company pleaded guilty yesterday to defrauding a federal program that subsidized broadband internet access during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Krandon Wenger allegedly claimed falsely that hundreds of his company’s customers lived on tribal lands, enabling it to collect […]
Baltimore-based power company Constellation Energy overcame a crucial hurdle yesterday in its bid to restart an idled nuclear plant on Three Mile Island in Dauphin County. Federal energy regulators gave Constellation clearance to connect the plant — now known as the Crane Clean Energy Center — to the grid by transferring connection rights held by […]