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Real estate agent meets modern challenges and changes

Cami Mahaffey, broker of RE/Max West Branch, brings two decades of experience in the ever-fluctuating real estate industry to achieve what she finds to be the most rewarding part of the job: “I really just like helping clients achieve their dreams of owning a home,” she said. Re/Max West Branch specializes in residential, commercial and luxury real estate. They help sellers price and market their properties effectively while helping buyers in finding their dream home. RE/MAX agents pride themselves on smooth communication and negotiation with everyone involved in the often ...

Elery Nau Hardware proud of knowledgeable staff

Elery Nau Hardware, located at 917 Broad Street in Montoursville is a one stop shop for hardware supplies. The shop offers electrical supplies, plumbing supplies, lawn and garden products and more. “People will come to us and ask us about the painting projects, about electrical ...

Hans CedarDale Satellite is a family business

Hans CedarDale Satellite Inc. is a small, family-owned business located near Hughesville with a wide customer base and a nearly 40-year history. Tammy Hans can be found most days at the business headquarters dealing with customers, talking on the phone, or attending to a myriad of other ...

Passion discovered in school becomes career, business for Brink’s Welding

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 ...

Shoppe on Broad ‘excited to welcome new regulars’

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 ...

Employee benefits agency has seen change — and growth

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 ...