Swatara Township-based Commerce Bank has started a petition opposing the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) final two choices for the construction of a new federal courthouse in downtown Harrisburg.

Union National Financial Corp. reported second-quarter earnings of $337,000, a 28.6 percent decrease from the same period of 2006.

Susquehanna Bank PA will have more ground to cover after its merger CommunityBanks closes in the fourth quarter.

Mid Penn Bancorp Inc., the Millersburg-based parent company of Mid Penn Bank, reported second-quarter net income of $1.18 million, down from $1.12 million in the year-earlier period.

Shippensburg-based Orrstown Financial Services Inc. today reported a 2.4 percent increase in second-quarter earnings to $3.2 million, or 50 cents per share.

Sterling Financial Corp. is being acquired by a company that needed to plug a gap in the midstate and was unfazed by the prospect of taking on an accounting and legal mess.

Emerging companies looking for funding have a chance to hit a home run during “Idea Pitch! 2007.”

Edward J. Fox, the leader of Mid-Atlantic Corporate Federal Credit Union, will retire in July 2008, the credit union announced.

On May 24, Sterling Financial Corp. announced it had uncovered a massive fraud scheme at its logging-finance subsidiary, EFI.

North Carolina-based Wachovia Bank will provide $250,000 to the Spanish American Civic Association in Lancaster to boost the nonprofit’s community-development efforts.

Pennsylvania employers will get their unemployment-compensation taxes reduced next year by $141 million, according to a written statement from Gov. Ed Rendell.

Lititz-based Susquehanna Bancshares today reported second-quarter earnings of $9.8 million, down nearly 50 percent from the year-ago quarter.

ACNB Corp., an Adams County financial-services company, declared a quarterly cash dividend of 20 cents per share, payable Sept. 14 to shareholders of record Aug. 31.

Pennsylvania Commerce Bancorp Inc., parent company of Commerce Bank/Harrisburg, reported earnings of $1.6 million for the second quarter.

Union National Community Bank made bold moves in 2006.