When Dan Brink was a senior in high school, he had to pick a potential career and research it. “I chose welding, because I enjoyed metal shop class,” Brink said. It was a fortuitous choice, because it led him to study welding at Pennsylvania College of Technology and begin his career in ...
As the Shoppe on Broad celebrates a little over a year since opening, owners Christy Sherwood and Rilissa Nettling look back on how it all began. “We were two best friends who love to roam and shop,” Sherwood said. After visiting Jim Thorpe and seeing the variety of unique small-shops ...
When Swift Kennedy and Associates began in 1921 in DuBois without the “associates” attached, medical insurance as an employee benefit had not yet become the industry standard that it is today. Functioning primarily as a Property and Casualty agency, the business reformed its efforts to ...
Since 1927, the Presbyterian Home has supported the senior community through two major forces: faith and compassion. “In a time before Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the network of social services that are taken for granted today in our country, the responsibility to care for ...
A website is an essential part of an entity’s brand these days, and Positive Medium has been refining the skill since the beginning of the internet. Positive Medium builds and maintains fully customized websites for a wide range of customers including small businesses, non-profits, ...
Eder’s Ice Cream serves up not only tasty cold treats but a glimpse into yesteryear when life was much simpler. That shouldn’t come as a surprise given that the business has been passed down in the family through several generations. “I’m fourth generation Eder’s,” Tye Sheets, ...
