Megan Martin has been named COO and general counsel of the Commonwealth Foundation, a new role for the Harrisburg-based think tank.Martin worked most recently as
Matt Buckwalter and Frank Horvath first met about a decade ago as fellow franchisees for One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing and Mister Sparky Electric. Now, they are co-workers.Buckwalter’s Lancaster County-based company, Punctual Pros, has acquired Horvath’s — Horvath Home Services, which does business in Ocean and Monmouth counties in central New Jersey.The acquisition is the first for Punctual […]
MacKenna Leib has been named assistant controller at Boyer & Ritter, a new position for the Camp Hill-based accounting and advisory firm.Leib joined Boyer & Ritter in 2019 and has worked as a supervisor in the firm’s employee benefit plan and auto dealership groups. As assistant controller, she will help manage the firm’s finances and […]
Partners Scott Christ, Brian Groff and Krista Showers retired effective Nov. 30 from Trout CPA, a Lancaster-based accounting and advisory firm. Groff joined Trout in 1993 after graduating from James Madison University in Virginia. He chaired the firm’s team development committee and its nonprofit practice group.Christ joined Trout in 2020 after the firm merged with […]
Is a company still liable for a subsidiary’s legal problems even after the subsidiary is legally dissolved?That’s an issue being taken up by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the context of asbestos class-action lawsuits filed against Dravo, a former shipbuilder and manufacturer based in Pittsburgh.The question is whether Dravo’s asbestos liabilities should pass to Carmeuse Lime Inc. The Belgian […]
Robert Opferman has been named senior vice president and director of BSA/AML/OFAC for Mid Penn Bank, the chief operating subsidiary of Harrisburg-based Mid Penn Bancorp.Opferman worked most recently as director of risk for City of Boston Credit Union. Before that, he was director of fraud and BSA at Republic Bank for 14 years.He has a […]
Do you know who your owners are?It’s a question millions of businesses will have to answer by the end of the year under a federal law known as the Corporate Transparency Act.Enacted in 2021, the law requires corporations, LLCs, LPs and other business entities to report information about their owners and managers to a federal […]
Eschbach Real Estate Holdings 2 LLC paid $732,500 for a 4,968 square-foot office property at 840 Sir Thomas Court in Harrisburg, according to Dauphin County deed records. The seller was Dawn Marie Realty Inc.The office is slated to become a second location for BTI Group, a Wormleysburg-based company specializing in applied behavioral services for children, […]
Brandi Jacob Waechter has been named chief HR officer at York-based Kinsley Enterprises. She succeeds Bill Yanavitch, who became the company’s first chief HR officer in 2019. He is planning to retire at the end of this year. Before joining Kinsley, Yanavitch was an executive for about 17 years at Glatfelter, a paper maker formerly based […]
York County-based South County Brewing is planning to take over the former Pressroom restaurant in downtown Lancaster. The spot at 26 W. King St. will be the third for South County.Founded in 2011, the brewery also has locations in Fawn Grove and York Township in York County.When is this happening: The roughly 22,000 square-foot venue in downtown Lancaster […]
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