Grant supports small-business center
The FirstEnergy Foundation recently awarded a $20,000 grant to support Edinboro University’s Center for Branding and Strategic Communication, which assists start-up businesses in the Edinboro region...
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Hearing held to review legislation seeking to support rights of non-union public sector workers
State Rep. Rob Kauffman (R-Franklin) recently led a public hearing on House Bill 2571, which aims to protect public sector employees who do not wish to contribute to the representative union where the...
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Pittsburgh organizations receive $1.8M in Affordable Housing Program grant funding
FHLBank Pittsburgh and its member financial institutions, First Commonwealth Bank and Brentwood Bank, recently presented Hazelwood Initiative, Inc. and Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh with Affordable H...
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Montecito Medical Real Estate acquires office portfolio from Penn Medicine/Lancaster General Health
Montecito Medical Real Estate recently acquired the medical office portfolio of the Penn Medicine/Lancaster General Health, which includes two adjacent buildings in Lancaster, Penn. The Class-A med...
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First participants in Cumberland County work program graduate
The first four participants in the Cumberland County work transition program graduated Tuesday following nine-month internships at Cumberland County government offices that were held during their clas...
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Northeastern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center to host three Manufacturing Day events
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center (NEPIRC) announced last week that it would host three events to celebrate National Manufacturing Day on three different days in Sugarloaf, Scra...
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SBA administrator visits Western Pennsylvania company
Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Linda McMahon recently visited and toured Professional Graphic Communications (PGC) in Sewickley in Allegheny County. PGC is family owned, and fina...
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Task force reveals ways to improve school safety
The Pennsylvania School Safety Task Force recently released recommendations on how to prevent school violence. The recommendations follow six regional roundtables earlier to discuss how to allocate...
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NRC to review License Renewal Application for Lancaster Peach Bottom Reactors
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently accepted for review an application from Exelon Generation Company, LLC to renew the operating licenses of Peach Bottom Units 2 and 3, located near Lanc...
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Cranberry Township receives grant to assist with transportation infrastructure project
Cranberry Township in Butler County recently received approval for a $2,875,000 grant to assist with a transportation infrastructure project that will connect the Cranberry Springs development and the...
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Bedford County Development Association receives $500,000 grant to expand Hess Business Park
The Bedford County Development Association recently received approval for a $500,000 grant to support the expansion of the Bedford County Business Park in Bedford Township. The grant will support t...
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Blaschak Coal Corporation approved for $1 mln grant to develop reserve of Mammoth coal in Mount Carmel region
Blaschak Coal Corporation recently received approval for a $1 million grant through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) to re-engineer, reopen, and redevelop a large reserve of Mammoth...
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Motorcycle dealer holds ribbon cutting in Warrendale
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for motorcycle dealer Pitt Cycles, owned by Mike Cartney and Bill Obaker, recently held its ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday in Warrendale, Marshall Township. “It is m...
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Groundbreaking held at Kutztown Hampton Inn and Suites
Gold Bear Ventures and Ursus Aureus, two investment subsidiaries of Kutztown University Foundation, and Wohlsen Construction recently broke ground on the 100-room Hampton Inn and Suites in Kutztown, B...
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Carson, Rothfus discuss economic opportunity, affordable housing for Western Pennsylvania
Congressman Keith Rothfus (R-PA) recently met with U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson in Western Pennsylvania to visit local leaders, tour designated Opportunity Zones an...
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Sheetz to open in Scranton industrial park
Sheetz will be opening a store in the Mount Pleasant Corporate Center in Scranton, according to the Scranton Plan, the economic development marketing affiliate of The Greater Scranton Chamber of Comme...
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University of Pittsburgh at Bradford receives $2M grant for engineering and technology building
Rep. Martin Causer (R-Turtlepoint) and Sen. Joe Scarnati (R-25th District) announced Wednesday that the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford received $2 million in state funding for the development of...
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Air Products wins contract for coal-to-syngas plant in Hohhot, China
Air Products, an industrial gases company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, recently announced that it would supply syngas to Jiutai New Material Co. Ltd for a multi-billion dollar mono-ethylene glyco...
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Ellwood City Borough Council adopts changes to Ellwood City Electric
Ellwood City Borough Council has adopted changes to Ellwood City Electric to improve consumer protection, price stability, and transparency, as a bill to establish legislative controls to correct thes...
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Baker introduces bill to create more predictable payment plan for rural hospitals
Sen. Lisa Baker (R-20th District) introduced legislation Monday seeking to establish a program to support rural hospitals by creating a more predictable payment plan and improving rural hospitals’ a...
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