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Carlisle-area cannabis biz sold to workers

Nearly a decade after co-founding one of Pennsylvania’s first medical marijuana businesses, Mark Toigo has handed the keys to employees. Toigo and Jaime Toigo, his wife and co-owner, have sold 100% of Organic Remedies to its 450-plus workers through an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP. The company had been courted by growing multistate cannabis operators, but […]

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Barley Snyder

Jennifer Carter has joined Barley Snyder as an associate in the law firm’s York office. Carter is a member of the firm’s litigation practice group and also works with its employment and land use teams. She represents businesses, property owners and other clients in civil litigation matters including personal injury, premises liability, insurance defense, construction […]

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Tandem Center for Shared Business Success

The Tandem Center for Shared Business Success, a Lancaster-based nonprofit that advocates for employee ownership of businesses, has published a book designed to help business owners evaluate the nonprofit’s approach to employee ownership. The book, “Direct Employee Ownership: Building a Culture and Legacy of Shared Success,” includes sections on the Tandem model, legal and regulatory considerations […]

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Dunkin’ franchisee buys former bank office

Machines will soon be dispensing coffee instead of cash at a former Fulton Bank branch in eastern York County. A Dunkin’ franchisee paid $975,000 for the shuttered Fulton branch at 599 W. Market St. in Hellam Township, York County, according to county deed records. The franchisee, GN Realty Hallam LLC, plans to convert the branch into a Dunkin’ donut shop […]

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Lebanon-area industrial building sold

An industrial building in South Lebanon Township Lebanon County, sold for $3.55 million in an investment deal involving two Lancaster-area partnerships, according to county deed records. Prime Capital Holdings LLC, headed by Serge Bliznyuk, was the buyer, according to county property records. The seller was GMZ LLC, headed by Leon S. Zimmerman. Brian Higgins, Ari Nordlinger and […]

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AI meets executive coaching

As leadership coach Chad Harvey came to grips with the potential for AI to change everything, he started learning as much as he could about the technology. Then he started using it to build tools. “Not just your standard chatbot-type things but really investing in the technology in ways that meaningfully enhanced the work that […]

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PRworks

Jason Kirsch, principal of Harrisburg-area marketing and PR firm PRworks., has been tapped as the exclusive regional member for PR Consultants Group, a national network of PR professionals who work across local markets on behalf of their clients’ regional and national initiatives. The group covers about 50 markets in the U.S. “Clients don’t have to choose between […]

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Murphy McCormack Capital Advisors

Kenneth R. Frederick Jr. has been named a managing directo at Murphy McCormack Capital Advisors, an M&A consulting firm in Lewisburg. Based in Pittsburgh, Frederick is expected to enhance Murphy McCormack’s business in western Pennsylvania. Frederick worked most recently as vice president of finance for Imagine Pharma, a Pittsburgh-based biotech company. Before that, he worked for […]

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Court upholds rejection of West Shore warehouse expansion

Officials in Silver Spring Township were justified in denying plans to expand a warehouse on a former IBM campus between Carlisle and Mechanicsburg, a state appeals court ruled this week. The owner of the roughly 478,000-square-foot warehouse at 180 Kost Road, just off Carlisle Pike, wanted to tack on another 210,000 square feet. But the request was […]

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Retail, industrial spaces leased

Full Force All Stars LLC leased 11,700 square feet of industrial space at 2850 Lewisberry Road in York Haven. The competitive cheerleading organization will use the space as a training facility. Nik Sgagias and Amber Corbo of NAI CIR facilitated the transaction. 13 Baseball Academy Inc. leased 18,337 square feet of retail space at 192 […]

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York firm sold to nuclear tech biz supported by AI pioneer

A company backed by AI mogul Sam Altman is gaining a footprint in York County. Nuclear technology developer Oklo Inc., where Altman was previously board chair, has acquired Creative Engineers Inc., a chemical engineering business based in Shrewsbury Township, York County. Founded in 1996, Creative Engineers has been a supplier to Oklo, a company working to commercialize and […]

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Controversial power line plans resurface

An Ohio-based energy company is reviving plans for a high-voltage power line in Franklin County following a years-long legal battle over an earlier version of the project. Designed to ease congestion in the regional electric grid, the project calls for a 29-mile power line running from a proposed substation near Shippensburg to an existing substation […]

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Developer buys scrapyard at center of environmental dispute

A York-area scrapyard at the center of an environmental dispute is under new ownership. An affiliate of York-based developer Inch & Co. has acquired the property of J&K Salvage, a metal recycling operation shut down by a state order in March following a fire. The affiliate, Codorus Creek Renewal LLC, paid $2.7 million for J&K parcels at 1099 and […]

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G&S Foods LLC

Matthew Lebo has been named vice president of sales at G&S Foods LLC, a Hanover-based private-label snack manufacturer, effective July 13. Lebo joins G&S Foods from The Hershey Co., where he spent 23 years in progressively senior roles, most recently as senior director of external manufacturing. He brings expertise in co-manufacturing, supply chain management and […]

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Boyer & Ritter LLC

Boyer & Ritter has announced 14 promotions effective July 1, led by the election of Wesley Veigle and Casey Surridge to principal at the Camp Hill-based accounting firm. “These promotions represent more than individual achievement. They strengthen our firm and enhance the value we deliver to our clients,” managing partner Lisa Myers said in a […]

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State authority wrestles with fraud in ACA marketplace

A wave of fraud has been hitting Pennsylvania’s Obamacare marketplace amid an upsurge in suspicious activity in marketplaces nationwide. The state’s market overseer, the Pennsylvania Health Insurance Exchange Authority, has tightened controls over the last few months in an effort to block fraudulent insurance enrollments. State lawmakers also are looking to clamp down, with one measure […]

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Feds allege engineer parlayed inside scoop on TMI restart into stock gains

Federal authorities charged a former Constellation engineer with using inside knowledge of plans to restart an idled nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island to trade on the company’s stock. The alleged insider trading scheme earned the engineer, Casey Muggleston of Wilmington, Delaware, about $1.4 million, according to a complaint filed this week by the U.S. Securities and […]

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Data center plans roil Dauphin County township

For nearly two years, officials and residents in South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, have been debating ground rules for data centers, large buildings full of computer equipment used in artificial intelligence and related applications. Now, with the ordinance still in draft form, the township is being asked to consider plans for a pair of data centers […]

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