Beech Creek business earns Charles Bryant Award

August 14, 2021

INDIANAPOLIS — Redmond’s Complete Comfort of Beech Creek was named one of three 2021 Charles Bryant Award winners. The Charles Bryant Award, named for the company’s founder, recognizes loyal Bryant Factory Authorized Dealers (FAD) that epitomize the characteristics of Charles Bryant, including professionalism, quality, reliability and community spirit. Bryant, a leading supplier of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, is a leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold ...

Small farms thriving amidst pandemic reopenings

August 7, 2021

While some local farms and agribusinesses are still adapting to the ever-changing pandemic, some of those businesses have been thriving with the interest in home cooking increasing again. “The pandemic didn’t affect the bees,” said Brenda Aucker, owner of Aucker’s Apiary. “(As ...

Muncy you-pick produce farm adapts to COVID regulations

August 7, 2021

MUNCY — The Green Barn Berry Farm, located at 7299 Armstrong Road in Muncy, has remained busy amidst the pandemic restrictions being tightened and loosened but have taken the opportunity to stop and “take a breath and enjoy everything on a daily basis.” Robyn Schreiber, owner, said ...

A waste coal-burning, crypto-mining pirate ship sets sail

August 7, 2021

KENNERDELL (AP) — In March 2017, Bill Spence got suddenly, catastrophically sick. A part of his pancreas died. His gall bladder failed. When he got to the emergency room, the doctors found kidney cancer. “Let’s see if you can make it 48 hours,” his doctor told him. Just a few weeks earlier, Mr. Spence, a cheerful tower of a man whose signature ponytail had been updated to a gray man bun, had walked into the Scrubgrass waste coal plant that he had just bought and hung a black pirate flag in the office. The coal plant was a pirate ship, he announced. “We sink or profit ...

Area businesses look to rebound from pandemic as more people take to nature

July 31, 2021

This summer, more people are being drawn to the outdoors, and outdoor activities than in years prior. Local sporting goods businesses and manufacturers of outdoor products have been trying to keep up with the high demand of their merchandise, such as kayaks, camping supplies and ...

Pandemic leaves bike shops struggling in shortages

July 31, 2021

George Gatto’s bicycle shop flourished in summer 2020, as the first pandemic lockdowns eased and bike sales nationwide boomed. This summer, however, is a different story. The demand is still there, but manufacturing warehouses globally are empty, and places such as Gatto Cycle Shop in Tarentum are left scrambling. When the coronavirus restrictions hit in March 2020, Gatto closed his doors. He couldn’t sell anything for months. He even debated selling off his inventory to others in his dealer performance group. But they told him to save his stock and buy as much as he could. ...