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Iconic York donut business sold to private equity

Private equity is bingeing one of York County’s most iconic retail brands. A consortium of three firms, led by Swander Pace Capital, has acquired Maple Donuts Inc., a family-owned donut and pastry maker based in Springettsbury Township, York County. The deal comes just over a year after the death of the company’s longtime leader, Charlie Burnside. Terms […]

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Higher water, sewer rates sought

The York Water Co., which serves more than 212,000 people in Adams, Franklin, Lancaster and York counties, is asking state regulators for permission to raise rates for water and sewer service. Under the proposal, residential water customers would pay an additional $14.16 per month, while sewer service would go up by an average of $35.85 […]

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AHF Flooring

After a period as interim CEO, Brent Emore has been named CEO of AHF Products, a flooring manufacturer based in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County. He succeeds Brian Carson, who left the company in February to become CEO of Pittsburgh-based The Pittsburgh Paints Co. Emore joined AHF in 2024 as CFO. He worked previously at flooring giant Mohawk […]

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Zoning change accommodates data center plans

A $15 billion data center project proposed for rural Cumberland County cleared a crucial hurdle. At a meeting Friday morning, supervisors in Middlesex Township approved an ordinance creating a special zone where data centers are allowed — an agricultural tract of roughly 700 acres along Country Club Road and the Conodoguinet Creek. The ordinance incorporates […]

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Developer closes on former factory sale

The former Frog, Switch & Manufacturing plant in Carlisle has officially changed hands. The Real Estate Collaborative, an arm of the Cumberland Area Economic Development Corp., closed May 29 on its acquisition of the roughly 26.7-acre site at 600 E. High St. The sale price has not yet been recorded in county deed records, and Real Estate Collaborative chair […]

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Regional contractors clash over hospital project

A York contractor claims it has not been paid in full for work it performed earlier this year on a multimillion-dollar project to expand a local hospital. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in York County court, Kinsley Construction LLC says it was hired by other contractors in 2024 to provide concrete for the foundation of a new […]

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Penn State Health

Dr. Michael Kupferman has been named CEO of Penn State Health effective June 23. He succeeds Steve Massini, who retired last fall after five years in the top post at the regional health system. Deborah Addo, Penn State Health’s president and COO, has been serving as interim CEO. Kupferman has worked most recently as president of […]

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Carlisle Country Club sold, renovations planned

It wasn’t long after he joined the board of Carlisle Country Club in late 2023 that business owner Mark Toigo grasped the venue’s financial challenges. “It was just burning cash,” Toigo said in an interview with biznewsPA. Rather than see the club and its golf course close, Toigo assembled a group of investors who bought the club […]

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Mid Penn Bank

Joseph “Joe” Flanagan has been hired as vice president, commercial loan officer and agricultural lender in the Greater Harrisburg area market for Mid Penn Bank. He will support both commercial and agricultural customers and report to regional president Justin Manning. Flanagan worked most recently as a vice president and commercial loan officer for Gettysburg-based ACNB […]

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Consumer advocates want do-over for price-spiking power auction

Consumer advocates in Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey are asking federal regulators to rerun an auction that is sparking a hike in electricity prices set to take effect in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest — including Pennsylvania — starting June 1. At issue is the auction process used by regional power grid operator PJM to set the price of electricity […]

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AG settles claims against Lancaster-based property manager

Home365, a property management company with offices in Lancaster and Las Vegas, has agreed to pay $45,000 to settle allegations by Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday that it was slow to make repairs in response to tenant requests and, in other cases, did not return tenants’ security deposits. Both are violations of state law. Two-thirds […]

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Flooring firm levels new charges in loan dispute

A regional bank allegedly relied on false premises to seize $1.6 million in inventory from a Harrisburg-area flooring company, according to a legal complaint filed by the company against the bank. The complaint, filed last week in Dauphin County court against Mid Penn Bank, is the latest salvo in a dispute over an alleged loan default by […]

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Developer begins work on Dillsburg-area warehouse

Trammell Crow, a real estate development company based in Dallas, broke ground in May on a 376,000-square-foot warehouse at 901 York Road in Carroll Township. A Trammell Crow affiliate paid $3.89 million earlier this month for the 35-acre site north of Dillsburg where the warehouse is rising. Dubbed the York County Trade Center, the facility […]

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Fulton Financial

Andy Fiol and JoBeth Mauriello have moved up into new roles at Lancaster-based Fulton Financial, the largest bank based in the region. Fiol has been promoted to chief banking officer, while Mauriello has been named head of consumer and business banking. Fiol, who has worked at Fulton since 2018, succeeds Angela Snyder, who became the bank’s […]

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Effort underway to boost downtown Harrisburg

State lawmakers, city officials and the Capital Region Economic Development Corp. are launching a joint effort to revive downtown Harrisburg, which has yet to recover fully from the Covid-19 pandemic. The partners plan to assemble a steering committee that will begin work “immediately” on a downtown revitalization plan. “Everyone agrees that we need to provide some […]

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What’s next for Penn State York?

Leaders in York County are focused on helping students, faculty and staff bracing for the closure of Penn State York. But they also have their eyes on what might come next for the 51-acre campus straddling York city and Spring Garden Township. “We obviously hope that it would continue to be of service to the […]

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Campbell Commercial Partners

Mandi Mladenoff has joined real estate firm Campbell Commercial Partners LLC as director of business and marketing. Before joining the Lemoyne-based firm, she developed expertise in internet marketing across a range of industries, including construction and heavy machinery, residential real estate, B2C sales and consulting. She studied communications and public relations at Susquehanna University.

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McNees Wallace & Nurick

Victoria Geddis has joined the Radnor office of law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick. Geddis advises clients on energy and water rates and procurement issues, regulatory and litigation matters, and environmental issues across all industrial and commercial sectors. Before joining Harrisburg-based McNees, Geddis held regulatory roles in the energy industry where she supported counsel on […]

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Consumer advocates want do-over for price-spiking power auction

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