Local News
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State College Borough Council OKs Free Holiday Season Parking Downtown
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State College Borough Council on Monday approved a program that will once again offer free downtown parking options for the holiday season, starting before Thanksgiving and continuing until after New Year’s. From Nov. 23 to Dec. 20, the grace period for free parking in garages will increase from 30 minutes to two hours with no…
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Harlem Globetrotters Bringing New Rivalry Tour, Free Pregame Party to Bryce Jordan Center
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The Harlem Globetrotters are bringing a new lineup of rivals and interactive basketball challenges to Penn State in March as part of the team’s 2027 world tour. The exhibition basketball team is scheduled to play at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, at the Bryce Jordan Center, with doors set to open at 6 p.m. Tickets…
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State High Band Celebrates 100th Anniversary
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More than 230 State College Area High School marching band alumni returned to the field on Friday night to join 240 current band members for a celebration 100 years in the making. They teamed up for a special pre-game performance and halftime show commemorating the State High band’s 100th anniversary during the Little Lion football…
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‘Big Leboneski’ and Friends Are Back in Bellefonte With Tailgate-Themed Display to Raise Money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital
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A 12-foot-tall skeleton named Big Leboneski and his friends are back for another year on a Centre County family’s lawn to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Now in its fifth year, Mattie family’s Halloween display on Pine Circle in Bellefonte features a new theme with skeletons and witches having a Penn State…
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State College to Host Open House for Initiative to Make Borough Roads Safer
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State College will welcome public input this month for an initiative aimed at eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries. An open house for the borough’s Vision Zero planning will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21 in room 201 of the State College Municipal Building. Community members can stop by any…
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Penn State Plans to Eliminate 47 Degree Programs
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Penn State has finalized recommendations to close 47 low-enrollment degree programs as part of a multi-year review of its academic offerings, the university said on Monday. The programs recommended for closure “due to low student demand, combined employment opportunity, program realignment and other factors” represent 11.66% of the university’s 403 baccalaureate and associate degree programs.…
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Man Charged With Selling Cocaine in State College Area
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A State College man is facing 18 felony charges after investigators said he sold large amounts of cocaine to a confidential informant on multiple occasions. James T. Turner, 40, was arrested on Thursday following an investigation by State College police, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, other law enforcement agencies and a statewide investigating grand jury.…
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Apple Fest Tradition Continues at Eagle Iron Works & Curtin Village
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Eagle Iron Works & Curtin Village, located at 251 Curtin Road, Howard, will continue its Apple Fest tradition — a family-friendly fundraiser — on Saturday, Oct. 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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New Cultural Nonprofit in State College Launches With Performance by 14-Piece Puerto Rican Ensemble
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Satellite House, a new nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting culturally significant music and arts programming in State College, will officially launch with a performance by Puerto Rico’s El Laberinto del Coco on Monday, Oct. 12, at Manny’s Live Performance Space . Founded to build community support for international, underrepresented and experimental arts programming, Satellite House…
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Bellefonte Educators Union, School District Reach Tentative Contract Agreement to Avert Strike
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Bellefonte Area School District and the union representing 230 of its teachers and staff reached a tentative contract agreement on Saturday, narrowly averting a labor strike that was scheduled to begin on Monday. Details of the four-year contract were not immediately disclosed, but the Bellefonte Area Education Association and school district said the union had…