Christine Pavlakovich has been named COO of Members 1st Federal Credit Union, one of the state’s largest credit unions. It is a new position for Members 1st, according to a credit union spokesperson. Pavlakovich joined Members 1st in 2023 as chief people officer and was named chief administrative officer in 2024. Her new role includes oversight […]
State lawmakers from both parties are backing legislation that would make it easier for victims of domestic violence to qualify for unemployment benefits and delay benefit cuts that were scheduled to take effect next year. The measure, which passed in the Senate this week, was designed initially to help people who might be forced by a […]
717 Community Outreach Services Inc. leased 4,000 square feet of office space at 102 W. Franklin St. in Steelton. The organization will use the space to host a variety of community events, including outreach efforts, cultural gatherings and other initiatives that benefit the Steelton area and surrounding communities. Campbell Commercial Partners facilitated the lease. The […]
Wyatt Behringer has been named communications and development manager for the High Foundation effective Dec. 1. He will lead the Foundation’s communications and marketing strategy and support the growth of its high impact areas, including affordable housing and the environment. Behringer will also contribute to the marketing and development work of the Partners for Environmental […]
WITF parent organization Pennon will spend $2.3 million during its current fiscal year to unwind its ownership of a Lancaster newspaper company. The money is coming out of an endowment fund established with the proceeds WITF received in 2017 from a federal auction of broadcast spectrum, according to documents presented to Pennon’s board at a meeting yesterday. The […]
The Hanover Co., a Houston-based developer, is planting a pair of warehouses on a tract in Conewago Township, York County. The company, which is partnering with a real estate fund advised by Dallas-based Crow Holdings Capital and lender J.P. Morgan, broke ground on the project Friday and expects to wrap up construction by early 2027. The project includes […]
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,” […]