Mirabito Energy Products recently added two new employees to its workforce. MICHAEL PECHA will now serve as assistant safety manager. He has degrees in criminal justice and civil engineering and has worked as a police officer, public safety officer, and a building and fire code inspector. Mirabito hired STACY THATCHER as its new accounts payable clerk. She has been a youth advocate worker as part of a therapeutic support staff and served as 2nd deputy clerk of courts for Susquehanna County.

Tompkins Financial Advisors announced that BOB CASE has joined the firm as wealth advisor. He is based at Tompkins’ office in Ithaca. Case brings 18 years of experience in the financial industry. Prior to joining Tompkins, he was a business banking relationship manager at M&T Bank. Case holds a master’s degree in business management and a bachelor’s degree in organizational management from Keuka College. 

RUSSELL E. RUTHIG recently joined Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP as of counsel to the firm. He comes to Coughlin & Gerhart after more than 40 years as an attorney, currently practicing in Cortland. A graduate of Hobart College and Syracuse University College of Law, Ruthig was admitted to the bar in New York in 1974. In addition to his practice of law in the Cortland area, he serves as a member of the Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, is a member of the Permanent Judicial Commission of the Susquehanna Valley Presbytery, and is a court examiner of guardianship accounts for Cortland, Tompkins, and Tioga counties. 

The Syracuse Crunch minor-league hockey team has hired LUKAS FAVALE as its new radio broadcaster. Favale, 25, joins the Crunch, the AHL affiliate of the Tampa Bay Lightning, full time after interning with the team from 2012 to 2014. He most recently served as the director of broadcasting and media relations for the Elmira Jackals of the ECHL during the 2016-17 season before being hired as the director of broadcasting/account executive by the Adirondack Thunder ECHL hockey club. As the voice of the Crunch, Favale will broadcast play-by-play for all Crunch games on the team’s official radio station, ESPN Radio Syracuse, along with hosting “The Shootout Show” live at the War Memorial Arena following home games. He will also host the one-hour “Crunch Weekly” show at Tully’s Good Times with special guests on select Thursday nights throughout the season. Favale will also serve as the team’s official statistician and prepare all game notes while selling ticket packages, single-game tickets, and booking groups.