Susan Grosh has joined the family and collaborative law group of Harrisburg-based law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick. Grosh worked most recently at a Lancaster-based law firm and is based in McNees’ Lancaster office. She has spent more than 40 years representing clients in a wide array of family law matters, including divorce, custody, support, […]
Lancaster-based news publisher LNP Media Group is trimming staff ahead of its transfer to startup nonprofit Always Lancaster. The cuts affect 11 staff members, five from the news side and six from operations, according to a spokesperson for Always Lancaster. A spokesperson for LNP’s current parent, Pennon, declined to comment before the organization completes the deal with […]
Lancaster County boiler maker Burnham Holdings Inc. has shaken off its liability for asbestos claims through what is an increasingly common type of transaction. Under the deal, Burnham sold subsidiaries housing the liabilities to affiliates of a firm that specializes in managing them, a Florida-based firm called Financial Asset Recovery Analytics LLC. The transaction will have no […]
A Harrisburg-area office of veterinary practice Animal Hospital of Dauphin County was sold in a lease-back deal to Terramed Real Estate Solutions, a Bala Cynwyd-based real estate investment trust specializing in veterinary, ophthalmology and fertility properties. Practice owner Dr. Rob Sarsfield received just over $1.9 million in equity in Terramed, which owns more than 650,000 square feet […]
Southern Airways, a Dallas-based airline that operates federally subsidized flights out of Lancaster Airport, is getting an extension. The airline’s current subsidies were slated to expire at the end of 2025, but they have been extended through the end of April, according to an order issued Jan. 2 by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The federal […]
Mark Gallo has been named district manager for the Jersey district of Investment Real Estate Group of Companies, a York-based operator of self-storage facilities. Gallo worked previously as district general manager at H&R Block in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, for 19 years, where he oversaw 30 retail offices. For Investment Real Estate, Gallo will oversee operations […]
The new year began without new ownership for LNP Media Group, the Lancaster-based news publisher owned by WITF parent Pennon. Pennon hoped to donate the company to a startup nonprofit called Always Lancaster by the end of 2025, pending approval from the Pennsylvania Attorney General. “To make this transition as smooth as possible as we work through the remaining details, we […]
A nonprofit lender based in Lancaster has landed $45 million in federal tax credits that it will use to kickstart projects around the region. The U.S. Treasury last week named Finanta, formerly Community First Fund, as one of dozens of recipients this year under the New Markets Tax Credit program, which is designed to lure private-sector […]
It was time to sell the donuts — and the honey, the baseball team and the roller coasters. Not to mention the banks, manufacturers and engineering firms, among others, that changed hands over the past year. Local dealmakers faced the usual headwinds in 2025, including relatively high interest rates. But they also had to navigate […]
State regulators are crafting guidelines designed to address one of the chief risks of the data center construction boom — that Pennsylvania residents and businesses get stuck with a hefty tab for building out the substations and power lines that feed electricity to the centers. The guidelines, proposed by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, are currently […]
Lititz-based S&S Singh Partners paid $6.2 million for Ephrata Commons, a 54,810-square-foot shopping center at 385 N. Reading Road in Ephrata, according to county deed records. The seller was an affiliate of New Jersey-based Heidenberg Properties, which paid $6.1 million for the center in 2016, according to county deed records. Heidenberg was represented by Chris Munley, Colin Behr, […]
Ryan Harshman and Matt Harvey. They have been named principals at regional accounting firm Brown Plus. Harshman, based in the firm’s Frederick, Maryland, office, was an audit senior manager. He is now an audit principal. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from the University of Maryland. Harvey works remotely from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and […]
A second suitor is eyeing a bid for the assets of SpiriTrust Lutheran, a York-based nonprofit senior living provider that filed for bankruptcy in November amid rising costs and declining revenue. The potential bidder is Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey, which has been managing SpiriTrust’s campuses under an agreement inked in February 2024, according to court […]
Gordon Roder has been named treasurer of Lancaster-based Fulton Bank. Roder previously held leadership roles at Third Federal Savings & Loan, Flagstar Bank and ABN AMRO. Roder will oversee Fulton’s corporate treasury and asset liability operations and guide the bank’s management of market and liquidity risks while advancing its long-term growth strategy. His hiring is not the only executive […]
Camp Hill-based LinkBancorp opened in 2018 following a round of consolidation that took out several banks in Central Pennsylvania. Now, with bank mergers again on the upswing, LinkBancorp is on the sell side. Alexandria, Virginia-based Burke & Herbert Financial Services Corp. has agreed to buy the bank in an all-stock deal valued at $354.2 million. The transaction, expected […]
Cathy Bolliger has been named director of grantmaking for the York County Community Foundation. Bollinger, who has worked at the foundation since 2014, will lead its grantmaking operations from application review through impact measurement, ensuring that every stage of the process advances long-term, equitable progress for York County. During her tenure at the foundation, Bollinger […]
Mumtaz Darbar has been named executive vice president and chief transformation officer at Penn State Health, a new role for the regional health system based in Derry Township, Dauphin County. Darbar was previously the system’s chief clinical and academic integration officer, a post she took in 2023. In her previous role, Darbar led efforts to […]
The independent trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of Lancaster County business owner Daryl Heller wants to convert Heller’s case from a Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation. It’s a matter of the finances, according to a filing this week by the trustee, Fred Stevens of New York-based law firm Klestadt Winters Jureller Southard & Stevens. […]