NEW YORK — A week or more after Ida, business owners from Louisiana to Connecticut are still adding up the financial losses and assessing the physical and emotional toll, grappling to find a way forward. Many say it’s difficult to figure out the future when they’re unsure of the ...
SELINSGROVE — Jon Hummel knew construction of the $865 million Central Susquehanna Valley Transportation Project would impact farmland that has been in his family for seven generations. What he didn’t expect was how little the state would pay for about 20 acres they own in Selinsgrove and Winfield. “We knew it was coming but we didn’t expect such a low offer,” Hummel said. “It’s not even close to market value.” Construction of the highway has led the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to purchase or work toward acquiring property from about 225 people who ...
LOS ANGELES — Soaring home prices and rents are fueling real estate companies' appetite for houses, adding unwelcome competition for many would-be homebuyers. Residential real estate bought by companies or institutions hit an all-time high of 67,943 properties in the second quarter, according to Redfin, a Seattle-based online brokerage. That's more than a twofold increase from a year earlier, when the pandemic temporarily stymied the real estate market. It also represents 15.9% of all the properties sold in the April-June quarter, or just below the record high 16.1% share of ...
There are now so many large solar projects planned for Pennsylvania that, if all the plans panned out, there would be far more energy coming from the sun than from coal or nuclear power. More than 14 gigawatts of Pennsylvania-based utility-scale solar is in line to connect to the regional ...
Woodlands Bank recently welcomed Deb Bingaman to their Hughesville office team. She joins the organization as an assist and community office manager Bingaman brings over 16 years of financial service experience to her new role at Woodlands Bank. She began her banking journey as a teller and ...
Child care centers across the Lehigh Valley and beyond are facing an uphill battle to get their facilities staffed as parents return to working in offices and drop their children off for in-person classes. Staffing levels are critical for child care centers, which are required to have low ratios of children to adults. People in the industry say conditions both pandemic- and non-pandemic-related combined to create a crisis. “The child care staffing crisis is a problem that has been evolving for a long time, and this COVID and the economy have just collided now, and we’re in a ...
