• Here’s How Blue Bell-based QualTek Plans to Cut Millions in Debt

    Here’s How Blue Bell-based QualTek Plans to Cut Millions in Debt

    Blue Bell-based QualTek filed for bankruptcy last week and is hoping to implement a restructuring deal that would reduce its $625 million debt almost in half, writes Dietrich Knauth for Reuters. The company said that growing debt costs were starting to affect its operating budget at a time when inflation had already pushed labor and…

  • Local Paranormal Investigator Searches for the ‘Beast of Bryn Athyn’

    Local Paranormal Investigator Searches for the ‘Beast of Bryn Athyn’

    A paranormal investigator with Bucks County roots is now on the hunt for a creature believed to be in the Bryn Athyn area. JD Mullane wrote about the creature and its hunters for the Bucks County Courier Times. Eric Mintel, a paranormal investigator from Upper Black Eddy, has joined forces with two other investigators to…

  • Harleysville Telecom-Tech Firm Earns Woman’s Business Enterprise Certification

    Harleysville Telecom-Tech Firm Earns Woman’s Business Enterprise Certification

    The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) — a Florida certification organization — has vetted and accepted Excel Communications Worldwide, Inc., Harleysville, into its network. Excel is a telecommunications and cabling technology solutions provider serving large, Fortune 500 clients in the financial, healthcare, government, education, manufacturing, and commercial industries. To be eligible for WBENC recognition,…

  • 835 Area Code Arriving to Montco Months Ahead of Schedule

    835 Area Code Arriving to Montco Months Ahead of Schedule

    The 835 area code is coming to the region sooner than expected, writes Kaamil Jones for NBC10. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) announced that the new area code will go into effect several months ahead of schedule, on September 2, 2022. The number will be added in Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon,…

  • Blue Bell’s CompanyVoice Provides a Career Path for Workers in Montgomery County

    Blue Bell’s CompanyVoice Provides a Career Path for Workers in Montgomery County

    CompanyVoice (CV) recognizes talent among its employees and chooses to promote from within when filling internal openings. Rohan Lewis joined CV in 2012 as an operator supporting inside sales for a national web provider. His potential was clear and when an opening for team lead came up just months after he started, Rohan moved into…

  • Blue Bell-based QualTek Aims to Get Piece of 5G-fueled Largest Telecom Infrastructure Build

    Blue Bell-based QualTek Aims to Get Piece of 5G-fueled Largest Telecom Infrastructure Build

    QualTek, a Blue Bell infrastructure company led by CEO Scott Hisey, aims to get a piece of the 5G-driven largest telecom infrastructure build in history, writes Bob Fernandez for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The 2,000-employee company traded on NASDAQ for the first time earlier this week when it merged with a special purpose acquisition company. SPACs…