Orie Chambers has been named president of WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital in Lancaster County effective Nov. 30. Chambers has been interim leader of the 141-bed facility since former president Tina Citro was named president of WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon County. Chambers has worked at WellSpan Ephrata since 2011, when he started as clinical director […]
Tom Baldrige, the former head of the Lancaster Chamber, has been named interim president and CEO of Pennon, the Swatara Township, Dauphin County-based parent of public broadcaster WITF and news publisher LNP Media Group. Pennon board chair Leigh Horner had been leading the nonprofit since the resignation in October of former president and CEO Ron Hetrick. Baldrige, who led the Lancaster […]
A specialty clothing distributor is shuttering a warehouse and laying off 128 workers in northern York County just over a year after taking over the building from its former owner. In a notice to state and local officials, Illinois-based S&S Activewear said it plans to close its distribution center at 600 Industrial Drive in Fairview Township by […]
Kathryn Silcox has been named a senior counsel for Lancaster-based law firm Saxton & Stump. She will work out of the firm’s Harrisburg and York offices in the municipal law and real estate groups. Silcox has served as a magisterial district judge for Hampden and Silver Spring townships in Cumberland County since 2013. At Saxton […]
Wilsbach Distributors Inc., a beverage distributor based in Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County, has acquired Brewery Products Co. a distributor based in Springettsbury Township, York County, according to Wilsbach president Frank Sourbeer Jr. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal does not expand Wilsbach’s territory, which covers 11 counties in southcentral Pennsylvania, Sourbeer said. But […]
A state appeals court has barred a Philadelphia-area community college from putting a project out to bid after a regional contractor group raised legal questions about union-friendly requirements attached to the process. The $1 million project — for construction of an advanced HVAC training lab at Bucks County Community College — was put out to […]
Entrepreneur Abby Shank began developing a tiny home community near Elizabethtown in 2017 at the dawn of what became one of the hottest trends in residential real estate. Nearly a decade later, the 73-home Tiny Estates LLC community in Mount Joy Township has a new owner. A New Jersey-based partnership called Tiny Estates Lancaster LLC paid $6.1 million last […]
One of the region’s oldest hat factories is closing, and a second could follow. The family owners of F&M Hat Company Inc. in Denver, Lancaster County, have been winding down the 113-year-old business over the last year, according to fourth-generation co-owner and president Ash Fichthorn. He called the decision “bittersweet.” But, he added, “We’re at peace […]
Thrift store chain Savers Value Village Inc. is leasing a former Big Lots space at 2890 Whiteford Road near the York Galleria mall in Springettsbury Township, York County, according to Jeff Hoffman of Ardmore-based JPH Realty Advisors. He represented the landlord in the deal. Savers plans to open the store in spring 2026, according to a […]
Andres Zorrilla is poised to become interim CEO of Lancaster-based nonprofit lender Assets after current CEO Jaime Arroyo is sworn in early next year as mayor of Lancaster. Zorrilla is the organization’s director of administration. Arroyo, who has been CEO of Assets since 2022, is scheduled to take office on Jan. 5 after winning election in November. […]
For the first time in six decades, the Kinsleys are turning to a non-family member to lead their flagship construction business. But it is someone with a long history with the York-based company founded in 1963 by the late Robert “Bob” Kinsley. The new CEO at Kinsley Construction is Jason Stouffer, who began working at the company […]
Duck Donuts is shuttering its store at 6230 Carlisle Pike in Hampden Township, Cumberland County. The store, which opened in 2016 as part of a corporate training center, is scheduled to close on Dec. 14, according to a Facebook post. “We are incredibly grateful for the loyal guests, families, and community members who supported our Mechanicsburg shop,” […]
Yingst Building leased a 28,000-square-foot office building at 4643 Jonestown Road in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, formerly occupied by Verizon. Yingst is relocating its operations to the new building and plans to open a showroom there. The lease transaction was facilitated by Larry Kostelac and Art Campbell of Campbell Commercial Partners, who represented both […]
Paul Landers has been named CFO of Cumberland County. A resident of Mount Holly Springs, Landers succeeds Dana Best, who was elected county controller for a four-year term starting in January. Landers worked most recently as budget services director for Lancaster County. Before that, Landers worked as a resource analyst/accounting chief while serving in the […]
After more than two years operating under a shared nonprofit umbrella, WITF and LNP Media Group are poised to go their separate ways. Parent organization Pennon has agreed to donate LNP LancasterOnline and its sister publications covering Ephrata and Lititz to a new nonprofit, Always Lancaster, headed by veteran journalist David Greene. The name Always Lancaster reflects a tagline previously used by […]
A federal lawsuit is scaring away potential investors in a controversial hydropower project proposed along the Susquehanna River in southern York County. That’s one of the takeaways from a report on the project’s progress since it was awarded a preliminary permit just over a year ago. The lawsuit, filed by environmental groups critical of the project’s […]
Craig Kauffman has been named to the board of western Pennsylvania-based CB Financial Services Inc. and its chief operating subsidiary, Community Bank, effective Nov. 20. Kauffman is the former president and CEO of York-based PeoplesBank parent Codorus Valley Bancorp, which he led through an acquisition in 2024 by Orrstown Financial, based in Swatara Township, Dauphin County. Kauffman was in line to become CEO […]
Robert Ortenzio is looking to put the rehab company he cofounded with his late father back into private hands. Ortenzio proposed this week to buy out shareholders in Select Medical Corp., which is based in Mechanicsburg but operates healthcare facilities around the U.S. In a letter to the company’s board, Ortenzio described himself as “uniquely positioned” […]