December 2016
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Centre County sets Christmas tree, wrapping paper recycling plans
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The Centre Region Council of Governments is holding a free advanced Christmas tree recycling collection for residential customers in Benner, College, Ferguson, Harris and Patton townships Monday, Jan. 9, to Friday, Jan. 13, on regular collection day. No bags or decorations are permitted on trees. Trees will be taken to the State College…
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Retired trooper Robert Mann ready for challenges as Philipsburg-Osceola’s AD
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The Philipsburg-Osceola Mounties sports program has a new sheriff in town, and his name is Robert Mann. And, while Mann was not actually a sheriff, he was member of the Pennsylvania State Police, and he now has become the eighth athletic director in the history of P-O Mounties’ program. The director Mann replaces, Lee Fisher,…
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St. John students sing Christmas carols in Bellefonte
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BELLEFONTE — For students from St. John the Evangelist Catholic School in Bellefonte, it is tradition to spend an afternoon caroling downtown as a way to spread Christmas cheer and to thank local businesses for their support throughout the year. Here, the students sang carols outside of Plumb’s Drugs on Dec. 20.
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CPI holds Christmas luncheon for Centre County education leaders
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PLEASANT GAP — Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology recently held a Christmas luncheon for superintendents, administrative assistants and board designees from six area school districts. The event was hosted by CPI President Richard Makin and Joint Operating Committee chairman Hank Yeagley and prepared by CPI culinary arts program students under the direction of…
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Classic musical ‘42nd Street’ scheduled for Eisenhower Auditorium
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UNIVERSITY PARK — The backstage musical comedy classic “42nd Street” takes the stage at Penn State’s Eisenhower Auditorium with a new production at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17. “42nd Street” is the tap dance extravaganza that is essentially Broadway’s “reality show,” filled with backstage drama centered around the American dream of becoming a star. Musically, it…
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MLK celebration at Penn State to include talk by Cornel West
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UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State’s celebration of the life and message of Martin Luther King Jr. will include a talk by Cornel West on Friday, Jan. 20, in Schwab Auditorium. West, a professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary and professor emeritus at Princeton University, will speak during the evening celebration,…
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Penn State Basketball: Youth Gets Tough Introduction To Big Ten Play In Loss
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“I kind of know where Pat is at,” Northwestern coach Chris Collins said after the game. “In my second year I was starting McIntosh and Law and those guys as freshmen, they are good players, but they had to learn what Big Ten ball is all about. The future is in really good hands here.…
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Woskob Gallery in State College hosts community art event
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STATE COLLEGE — The Woskob Family Gallery will host a community art-making event — ‘Wall to Wall: A Community Drawing Project’ — from 1 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31. All members of the community are welcome. Participants are invited to contribute to a wall drawing visualizing their resolutions for the upcoming year. …
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Red hot Nittany Lions, Trojans traveled similar roads to Rose Bowl
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UNIVERSITY PARK — The sometimes rocky roads that the USC Trojans and Penn State Nittany Lions football teams traveled in 2016 were surprisingly similar. It’s also surprising, given how the two teams stood after Week 4, that those roads will ultimately end at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Monday, Jan. 2. Back in…
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Big Ten out to prove strength as bowl season hits high gear
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College football’s annual extravaganza of bowl games is about to crest on New Year’s weekend. There were 40-some bowls this year, with more than 80 teams, and this weekend the 2016 heavy hitters will collide. That list, of course, includes the national semifinal games between college football’s version of the final four: Alabama, Washington,…