April 2017
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Uplifting Athletes Founder Named Penn State Homecoming Honorary Grand Marshal
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The Honorary Grand Marshal for Penn State’s 2017 Homecoming will be Uplifting Athletes founder Scott Shirley, the homecoming committee announced during its annual Legacy Celebration Wednesday in the HUB-Robeson Center.
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Penn State Hockey: Team Awards Announced As Smirnov Takes Home MVP Honors
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Penn State hockey announced its team awards on Wednesday afternoon. The honors included four awards which the team voted on including MVP, the top defenseman, freshman of their and the player’s player.
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Vaccinations protect kids against life-threatening illnesses
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All parents want to help their children grow up as healthy as possible. One of the best ways to do that is by making sure each child receives all the vital immunizations that protect against serious illnesses. Because vaccines have been so successful over the decades in eradicating diseases, most of today’s parents have…
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Penn State study: Moms’ social support impacts infant fussiness
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UNIVERSITY PARK— How happy a mother is in her relationship and the social support she receives may affect the risk of infant colic, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. The study sheds new light on the factors that may contribute to infant fussiness, a common complaint, especially among first-time mothers. Social conditions related…
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Adult children need to carefully consider caregiver’s role
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There are two sides of the caregiving coin. On one side is people who find it a blessing to give back and develop a deeper connection to elder loved ones as they become their companions and helpers. On the other side are the people whose own physical and mental health suffers as they sacrifice everything…
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Centre Region parks ‘have a little something for everyone’
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STATE COLLEGE — Alyssa Carroll of Bellefonte visits a local park a couple times each week during the spring and summer. On April 21, her husband, Jason, needed to tend to his fishing supplies, so while he went to replenish his tackle box, she packed up their children — 2-year-old Kurt and 1-year-old Hayley…
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Lemont resident found niche in newspaper business
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Betty Shields family was living in Oklahoma at the time of her birth, but she actually was born in Kansas, because that’s where the nearest hospital — on the second floor of a ‘five-and-ten’ store — was in 1925. Shields was on only child, and when her parents separated, she went with her mother…
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The Avid Gardener: Welcome frogs of all varieties
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If the frog of your imagination is a smooth-skinned amphibian that hangs out in moist areas of the garden, you’d be right, but it isn’t the only one. There is another type of lesser-known frog — the flower frog. This frog is a bouquet-arranging tool with holes or pins. It holds stems of flowers…
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Centre County robotics team excels in competition
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STATE COLLEGE — The Centre County 4-H High School Robotics team made it to semi-final round at the recent Greater Pittsburgh Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. The team competed against robotic teams from around the Northeast, Midwest and as far as Hawaii and China. After two days of qualification matches, the team had the second…
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Work progresses on State College High ‘learning pods’
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STATE COLLEGE — Nearly two full years into work on the new State College Area High School, construction is progressing on pace and is months away from a major milestone. In December, crews will have finished the first phase of the project — four interconnected, three-story ‘learning pods’ on the south campus that will…