July 2017
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FDA Panel Backs Cancer Treatment That Saved Emily Whitehead
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A miracle in the making since 2010 may save thousands of young lives come September, should the Food and Drug Administration approve the first-ever treatment that genetically alters a patient’s own cells to fight cancer. That miracle is represented by 12-year-old Emily Whitehead, of Philipsburg.
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Did Technology Kill Inflation?
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The good news for retirees is that the world is in a low inflationary environment. The main drivers for the continuing low inflation are commodity oversupply and technology.
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Bacteria or Virus? Antibiotics Are Not Always the Answer
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Unfortunately, overuse of penicillin and other antibiotics can cause other problems for both individual patients and the general population. That’s why it’s important to take antibiotics only for true bacterial infections, including whooping cough, strep throat, and urinary tract infections.
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Construction Under Way for New State Police Barracks
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Construction has started on the new state police barracks in Benner Township, the latest step in a plan to merge the barracks at Philipsburg and Milesburg — also known as Rockview.
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Snapshot: Millbrook Playhouse Artistic Director David Leidholdt
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The summer theater season is well under way at the Millbrook Playhouse. The actors are performing, and the tech crews are working their magic, hanging lights and sewing costumes. At the center of this creative vortex is Artistic Director David Leidholdt. More than anyone else, he is responsible for
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Joe Humphreys Student Angling Fund Supports 80-Year-Old Fly-Fishing Course
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The fly-fishing course, which began in the 1930s, is still offered today as a general education offering in the Department of Kinesiology in large part due to the Joe Humphreys Student Angling Fund, which supports instructors and helps provide equipment to students.
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Dambly Elected Chair of Penn State Board of Trustees
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Mark Dambly was elected chair of Penn State’s Board of Trustees at the board meeting Friday on the campus of Penn State Harrisburg.
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Bellefonte native to discuss art theory
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Bellefonte native Jill O’Connor has spent five years scrutinizing the work of one of the art world’s most enigmatic figures. As her master’s thesis, O’Connor has developed a theory that, according to her, no Marcel Duchamp scholar has yet asserted. O’Connor will share her ideas with the communi
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Heverly, Young works on display at BAM
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The works of local artists Janice Heverly and Seth Young are on display through Sunday, Aug. 27, in the Print Gallery of the Bellefonte Art Museum.
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Front and Centre to present ‘The Wizard of Oz’
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CLEARFIELD — Audiences will be taken “Over the Rainbow” when Front and Centre Productions’ IGNITE Youth Theatre presents “The Wizard of Oz” at 7 p.m. Friday, July 28, and Saturday, July 29, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 30. Due to construction at Philipsburg-Osceola Area High School, this year’s performances will be held at Clearfield…