When Joe and Claire Strouse bought Hermance Machine Company, it was a small business, but it has grown into a force to be reckoned with.

“Since we have bought the company, it has grown leaps and bounds,” Joe Strouse, co-owner, said.

Rennie Rodarmel Sr. is a hall-of-famer.

It’s not because of his athletic ability or his musical skills; Rodarmel is in the Allstate Financial Hall of Fame, which recognizes the best of the best Allstate agents nationwide.

Jim Lucas and his sisters, Carol Rainey and Sally Fidler, joke that they were born at the Lucas Trucking Company building.

“We tell people we’ve worked here forever,” Rainey laughed. “We say we were born here.

HUGHESVILLE — Gary Papay helps private business owners through some of the most emotional times of their lives — buying and selling their businesses.