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In this episode of The Tribune-Democrat's new monthly series Johnstown Unsolved, Johnstown Police Department Detective Sgt. Cory Adams and Chief Mark Britton discuss the Feb. 1, 2017, murder of Kareem Lee Brandon in the Moxham section of the Pennsylvania city .

For three family generations over the course of 90 years, Inco Beverage Inc. has supplied beer to retail establishments in the region.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 13 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 14.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 12 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 13.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 11 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 12.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 10 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 11.

Jeff Todaro is owner of United Jewelers, a full service jewelry store on Johnstown's Main Street established in 1917. Todaro succeeded his father as owner, and his father succeeded Oscar Zion, the son of the original owner, Abraham Zion. In this episode, Todaro tells his story about his business, which has had one location, owned by a succession of two families for 106 years.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 9 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 10.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 8 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 9.

William Polacek began JWF Industries as a weld repair shop 35 years ago in a small garage. The company has grown to become a global manufacturer of metal products.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 7 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 8.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 6 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 7.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 5 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 6.

Johnstown's history was shaped by immigrants, and Jesper Nielsen, originally from Denmark, has shown the impact an individual can have with a supportive community around him. Nielsen and his wife, Amy Croyle, opened Croyle-Nielsen Therapeutic Associates, 303 Budfield St. in Richland Township 10 years ago, and in a move completely unrelated to his own work, Nielsen has bridged Denmark to Johnst...

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 4 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 5.

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 3 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 4

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis look back at Week 2 of the scholastic football season while also taking a peek at what's to come in Week 3

Sports staffers Mike Mastovich and Shawn Curtis preview the changes, big names and big games just in time for opening night of the 2023 high school football season.

Tony Sunseri Wholesale Distributors has been in business for 81 years, meeting challenges brought by World War II, Johnstown's devastating 1977 flood, the COVID-19 pandemic and many others. Tony Battaglia's grandfather on his mother's side of the family, Tony Sunseri, started the business on Railroad Street in downtown Johnstown. Over time, big chain stores edged out the mom-and-pops t...

Emma Spinelli began making sandwiches for mill workers employed by Bethlehem Steel Corp. more than 70 years ago. Today, Em's Subs is continued by the Beckner family. Bill and Melanie Beckner have owned the business for the past 17 years. Melanie Beckner died in March. Their son, Heath, and his wife, Rebekah, joined the family business in 2013. Em's has grown to include five locations. The...

For more than 100 years, Brett Insurance Agency has provided businesses and people in Johnstown with insurance to help them recover from losses. President Jim Brett is the third generation of his family to run the business, located at 225 Vine St. in downtown Johnstown. One of his sons, Will Brett, a producer with the business, has plans to succeed his father as the fourth generation. Both are gue...

Joe Poborsky founded JMA Collision Center in 1989. He built a state of the art facility in South Fork Borough in 2006, just off the St Michael / Sidman exit of Route 219. He subsequently spent years saving money to build a second location in Johnstown's Kernville neighborhood – in 2013, Poborsky opened that location at 505, Somerset St., just off the Bedford Street Exit of the Route 56 bypass....

Matt Brubaker is the fourth-generation owner of his family's business, O'Shea's Candies, which has been providing sweetness to customers since 1934, through adversity including two of Johnstown's historic floods. He and his wife, Kristy Brubaker, are guests for this episode. O'Shea's Candies has three retail locations and a manufacturing center, where the candies are handma...

From sharpening blades for tire shredders and zambonis to producing parts for U.S. defense industry contractors –  North Fork Grinding and Machining Inc., 166 Tire Hill Road, Johnstown, has reached multiple states surrounding Pennsylvania. Richard Jacobs, president and founder, delivers his products himself and has positioned the company in recent years to continue under the leadership of his daug...

Chelsea Mihalko is vice president of Mihalko's General Contracting, a full service remodeling company headquartered at 695 Solomon Run Road, Johnstown. Her father, Lou Mihalko, started a the business 45 years ago. Over the years, the company has evolved over time and tapped markets in counties outside of Cambria. ⁠ The Tribune-Democrat ⁠ is the top source for local news, sports, and entertainm...