April 2018
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PV students to learn about water quality
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SPRING MILLS — Fox Gap Rod & Gun Club will become an outdoor classroom for 90 seventh-graders from Penns Valley High School who will learn about water quality in their own Centre County backyards during Elk Creek Field Day on Monday, April 30. “We have a lot of data before stream restoration was done,” said…
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PSU prof to show ‘The Turn Out’ at the Rowland
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PHILIPSBURG — Philipsburg’s historic Rowland Theatre will be the venue for a screening of a new fiction feature film, “The Turn Out,” at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 28. The 90-minute feature by Pearl Gluck, professor of film at Penn State University, is concerned with the ever-increasing problems of human trafficking and child endangerment as they relate to…
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Attendance at Palmer surges due to ‘Plastic Entanglements’
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UNIVERSITY PARK — Since the opening of ‘Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials’ eight weeks ago at the Palmer Museum of Art, attendance to the museum has ballooned by as much as 32 percent, according to the museum. The record-breaking visitor numbers — more than 1,000 per week, which is hundreds more than the usual…
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Local artist to display during Downtown State College First Friday event
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STATE COLLEGE — Local artist Jeanne Black McKinney will display her original paintings from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, at The Expect More Store, 114 S. Allen St., State College. Cheeses, wine and beer will be provided during the exhibit. McKinney was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and graduated from Penn State…
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Centre County baseball teams trade victories and losses
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Many local rivalry games were played, though there were few decisive series victories. Let’s take a look at recent high school baseball results: BALD EAGLE AREA The Eagles fell during a three-game losing streak that started April 18 and lasted through April 23. On April 18, BEA traveled to Bellefonte, where the…
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Centre County baseball teams trade victories and losses
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Many local rivalry games were played, though there were few decisive series victories. Let’s take a look at recent high school baseball results: BALD EAGLE AREA The Eagles fell during a three-game losing streak that started April 18 and lasted through April 23. On April 18, BEA traveled to Bellefonte, where the…
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Lady Eagles outlast P-O in 9 innings
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The softball game between Bald Eagle Area and Philipsburg-Osceola was not played at high noon on April 23, but maybe it should have been. The two local heavyweights matched up in a Mountain League clash, and any fan looking for drama, comebacks and last-minute heroics would certainly not have been disappointed. Tied at…
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Scholastic Sports Digest: Bellefonte and BEA track square off
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WINGATE — The Bellefonte boys’ track and field team defeated Bald Eagle 88-62 at Bald Eagle Area High School on April 20. For the Raiders, it was the 4×800-meter relay team consisting of Hovis, Methven, Popp and Melvis who placed first with a time of 9:10. Luke Lambert was victorious in all three throwing…
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Area business partners with Girl Scouts for STEM expos
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WILLIAMSPORT — Alexandria Pavkovich, a research and development chemist at Restek, watched the face of a young girl light up when she created a mini lava lamp by adding an Alka-Seltzer tablet to a vial of colored water and mineral oil. It was Feb. 17 at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, and the experiment…
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Sgriccia recognized as ‘Top Young Leader’
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STATE COLLEGE — The Keystone Contractors Association recently awarded Mike Sgriccia, a senior project manager with Alexander Building Construction Co., with the inaugural KCA Top Young Leader Award. This award is given to emerging professionals from member companies who play critical roles in the community and professional areas of the construction industry. In…