Business

CARES Act funding allows free online training

IMC has partnered with Tooling U-SME, an online training provider, to off-set the cost of bringing high-quality, customized, onsite training to manufacturers. More than 500 unique online classes provide a broad offering of manufacturing training topics. Every online class has been reviewed and validated by industry experts. Online training from IMC and Tooling U-SME offers a quick-start, progressive road map that allows manufacturers to build career paths for employees. This online training is intended to enhance your existing on-the-job training, to create a job progression plan and ...

US unemployment claims fall to a pandemic low of 498,000

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 498,000, the lowest point since the viral pandemic struck 14 months ago and a sign of the job market’s growing strength as businesses reopen and consumers step up spending. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that applications declined 92,000 from a revised 590,000 a week earlier. The number of weekly jobless claims — a rough measure of the pace of layoffs — has declined significantly from a peak of 900,000 in January as employers have ramped up hiring. At the same time, the ...

Montoursville students place in FBLA competitions

From left to right are Montoursville Area High School’s Nolan Kutney, Sam Mattie, Ian Labatch and Lanie Mussina. At this years FBLA State Leadership Conference, Kutney, Mattie and Labatch placed 7th in the state in management decision making and Mussina placed first in job interview. In ...

Video: Slate Run Tackle Shop and Wolfe’s General Store

Slate Run general store, tackle shop changes hands

Tom and Deb Finkbiner owned and operated Wolfe’s General Store and Slate Run Tackle Shop for 45 years, expanding it from a small one-room enterprise to a top-of-the-line fly-fishing shop, deli, grocery and gift shop. Now, they’ve handed the business off to another couple who shares the ...

Going, going, not quite gone: How pandemic changed auctions

ALLENTOWN (AP) — A moment of silence, please, for the good old auction. Oh, they’re still around. But the in-person auction, with its traditional patter and gavel-banging and crowd buzz, has been giving way in recent years to online business — a change accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, which, according to one study, has advanced the pace of online commerce by two years. Advertisement Skip in 3s In the “before times,” as the prepandemic era is sometimes known, auction houses hosted in-person events at their headquarters and at properties being liquidated in ...