Hometown Champions: F&M Trust

Hometown Champions: F&M Trust

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
Hometown Champions: Clarion County Community Bank

Hometown Champions: Clarion County Community Bank

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
Mid Penn Bank’s Smash Factor

Mid Penn Bank’s Smash Factor

by: Diane Sweeney Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament Raises $200,000 for Breast Cancer Charities There is a golfing metric called the smash factor. When golfers improve their smash factor, they improve the quality of their shot. Mid Penn Bank, headquartered in...
Hometown Champions: First United National Bank

Hometown Champions: First United National Bank

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
Woodlands Bank: Honoring Everyday Heroes the Woodlands Way

Woodlands Bank: Honoring Everyday Heroes the Woodlands Way

by: Diane Sweeney In 1989, a group of entrepreneurs in Lycoming County was concerned about the state of personalized banking. Watching bigger banks merge and become corporate behemoths, they believed their region could benefit from a local community bank. They...
Hometown Champions: Fleetwood Bank

Hometown Champions: Fleetwood Bank

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
Continuity…Bonding Bank and Borough in Harrisville, PA.

Continuity…Bonding Bank and Borough in Harrisville, PA.

by: Diane Sweeney At the crossroads of Routes 8 and 58 in the far northwest corner of Butler County is the small town of Harrisville, PA. The current population is approximately 900. The same number as in 1960. The community of Harrisville, similar to many small towns...
Making An Impact: F&M Trust’s Community Investment Committee

Making An Impact: F&M Trust’s Community Investment Committee

by: Diane Sweeney Community is defined as a unified body with common interests. Another definition of community is a feeling of fellowship as a result of sharing common attitudes, feelings, and goals. Community banks are financial institutions unified with the people,...
Hometown Champions: Mid Penn Bank

Hometown Champions: Mid Penn Bank

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
Jonestown Bank & Trust Co.: Building the Future of Lebanon County

Jonestown Bank & Trust Co.: Building the Future of Lebanon County

by: Diane Sweeney A ONE ON ONE APPROACH TO MAKING DREAMS A REALITY Walk into a conference room at Jonestown Bank & Trust Co. (JBT) and you just might see Coni Russo-Ehrgood or Khristen Kleinfelter standing on a table building a tower with spaghetti, string,...
Hometown Champions: Turbotville National Bank

Hometown Champions: Turbotville National Bank

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
Fleetwood Bank: Partnering With the Next Generation of Customers

Fleetwood Bank: Partnering With the Next Generation of Customers

by: Diane Sweeney Can a group of high school students make an impact in the local banking community? When Caitlin, Brooke, and Faith, students at Fleetwood High School asked Fleetwood Bank to partner with them for their Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)...
Hometown Champions: Farmers National Bank

Hometown Champions: Farmers National Bank

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
2018 Community Banking Hometown Champion Awards

2018 Community Banking Hometown Champion Awards

by: PACB The 2018 Community Banking Hometown Champion Award winners exemplify the importance of community banks across Pennsylvania. These projects and stories are just a taste of what our members are constantly doing to ensure the success of the communities in which...
Hometown Champions: Harleysville Bank

Hometown Champions: Harleysville Bank

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
Ambler Savings Bank: The Cornerstone of the Community

Ambler Savings Bank: The Cornerstone of the Community

by: Diane Sweeney Ambler Savings Bank is rooted as firmly in this Montgomery County community as is the Wissahickon Creek which runs alongside the borough. As deeply ingrained as they are, both the creek and the bank have adapted through the years to serve the needs...
Hometown Champions: MCS Bank

Hometown Champions: MCS Bank

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
Hometown Champions: PennCrest BANK

Hometown Champions: PennCrest BANK

Communities across Pennsylvania are growing and thriving because their community banks care. The service and commitment demonstrated by community bank employees keeps customers faithful, and their sincerity keeps others hopeful. It is because of these employees that...
Enormous Views: From Local to Global, Everyone Wins

Enormous Views: From Local to Global, Everyone Wins

by: Diane Sweeney With the Stone Mountain ridge to the north and the Jacks Mountain ridge to the south, the Big Valley area of central Pennsylvania boasts enormous views. Even its formal name, Kishacoquillas Valley, is big. MCS Bank is big here too. The community bank...