Rick Shrum

“We were best friends who were in business together six days a week for more than 40 years,” she said of Gail Klingensmith, who died of cancer May 12.

A longtime grower and purveyor of produce in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Duda's Farm Inc. is striving to rebound from a period of financial woe and to reestablish its vaunted reputation across the region.

Two-and-a-half decades after relocating far from his roots, Harlan Kauffman feels very much at home. “It’s really been an incredible 25 years,” said the owner of The Kauffman Family Marketplace in Smith Township. “It’s really humbling the way the Burgettstown area and the community have supported us. We’ve seen a whole generation come and go. […]

“It's really been an incredible 25 years,” said the owner of The Kauffman Family Marketplace in Smith Township. “It's really humbling the way the Burgettstown area and the community have supported us. We've seen a whole generation come and go.

Established in 1935 in the midst of the Great Depression, cfsbank is remaining true to its roots. “The way we do business goes back to the beginning,” said Danielle Maurer, chief operating and retail officer for the Charleroi-based institution at 101 McKean Ave. “Our bank was founded at a time when a lot were closing. […]

California Borough will be losing its lone banking location – but not for good. “We are officially putting in a full-service branch in California,” said Danielle Maurer, chief operating and chief retail officer for cfsbank, based in nearby Charleroi. Key Bank will cease operations at 256 Third St. in California on Aug. 26 and transfer […]

Debra Smit, communications director of The Breathe Project, is so immersed in environmental issues that she has to pause occasionally to take a deep breath.

Ashley and Jared Yocum, a Somerset Township couple, launched a business nearly two years ago for the health of it. They are the owners/managers of Eighty-Four Microgreens, based at the dairy operation they run, A Little Bit of Heaven Farm, near Interstate 70. The Yocums plant, grow, harvest and deliver their microgreen products – for […]

Cheer Haven All-Stars is limbering up for a lengthy run at Franklin Crossroads Park. The gymnastics training center, also known as Haven Cheer & Gymnastics, is fitting in at the site where Washington Crown Center had operated for a half-century – before a $40 million transformation into the mixed-use Franklin Crossroads Park began in North […]

Residents of California Borough and nearby communities will be getting an early Halloween treat. cfsbank has announced that the full-service branch it is developing in the borough “will officially open” on Oct. 5 at 256 Third Street, a location where Key Bank previously had operated a branch. Key Bank, which consolidated that branch with the […]