Lancaster County businesses received over $6 million through Pennsylvania’s $145 million COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program (CHIRP).

The Press & Journal, a weekly paper covering Middletown, a small town near Pennsylvania’s capital, folded in July 2020 because its ad revenue collapsed in the pandemic. Its publishers, Joe and Louise Sukle, decided there was no future for the paper, even after getting a $146,000 emergency small-business loan from the government and donations from the community while seeing its site traffic zoom up.

Lehigh Valley received $1.6 million from the state to entice workers to finish their education and return to the workforce after COVID 19 shut down most of the economy for more than a year.

Kendra Auker is president and CEO of the Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg. She oversees 2,000 employees, 1,600 of them women, and many of them in their child rearing years.

For its first fiscal quarter ending May 29, Rite Aid Corp. reported a net loss from continuing operations of $13.1 million, or $0.24 loss per share.

“I’m fully vaccinated. Can I come and see you in person?” After more than a year of working remotely and seeing clients over Zoom, these requests are starting to come in. Now that COVID is winding down and restrictions are relaxing, organizations and companies have to figure out how to go back. And the really ...

Cedar Realty Trust will be retaining property management of Camp Hill Shopping Center, which has 25 stores, according to MallsinAmerica.com. Among the other tenants there are Boscov’s, Staples, Five Below, Barnes & Noble Booksellers and LA Fitness.

The bumper crop of pandemic gardeners continues to flourish as novice and experienced gardeners fuel soaring sales at local nursery yards and garden centers.

In an effort to drive long-term economic growth throughout the state, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce plans to create what it calls a “guide post for policymakers and elected officials.”

Gov. Tom Wolf renewed the state’s 90-day Proclamation of Disaster Emergency on Thursday for the fifth time since the pandemic began last year.

Midstate residents were mostly well informed on what was needed to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic but were overwhelmed with worries about mixed messages and distrust of some sources, according to researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine.

Pennsylvania’s restaurants, bars and other businesses have already received nearly $112 million in pandemic relief through the state’s $145 million COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program (CHIRP.)

Both indoor and outdoor events and gatherings will be able to increase their maximum occupancy limits beginning Monday, May 17.

Incoming legislation in the House and Senate looks to give back to Pennsylvania’s “health care heroes” with $650 million in grant funding.

According to the 2021 report on Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends, in the year ending in July 2020, 18% of homebuyers between the ages of 41 to 65, and 17% of homebuyers ages 75 to 95, purchased a multigenerational home.