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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 Johnstown in the defense industry.

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

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 that formed Sunseri's customer base, and the Johnstown flood of 1977 destroyed businesses including many on Railroad Street where Sunseri Wholesale was originally located – a fire just a few years before the flood led to the Sunseri company's relocation to Oak Street. Anchored by a belief in treating customers right, generation after generation of the Sunseri family adapted to sustain the business through the decades.

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 Beckners own all five as well as The Meadows, an ice cream shop.