September 2019
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Student Seriously Injured After Fall at Fraternity House; No Charges to Be Filed, Police Say
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The State College Police Department confirmed that no charges will be filed in the case involving a student injury at Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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Lunch with Mimi: Gregory Drane, director of the Penn State Blue Band, takes pride in challenging his students while entertaining fans at Beaver Stadium
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Gregory Drane became the sixth director of the Penn State Blue Band in July 2015. He took the helm after serving as assistant director from 2005-2015, leading the athletic pep bands as well as beginning the Penn State volleyball band. In his role as director, he works with more than 500 students between the marching…
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Letter from the Publisher: October Skies
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October produces some of the most beautiful skies of the year. The striking blues and grays balanced against a hazy white create the perfect canvas to highlight a wide palette of fall colors. Very rarely will you find a clear sunny day in Happy Valley during October. Most of the paintings and photos created…
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Letter from the Editor: Stoking the Pride
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I have lots of habits that understandably try my wife’s patience. This time of year, for example, there are the minutes – OK, maybe hours – spent each week on my phone, researching and adjusting the lineups of my fantasy football teams. While she enjoys football too, she’s not into the fantasy craze. But…
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Taste of the Month: RE Farm Café serves delectable cuisine while teaching us to reconnect with the land
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A dream years in the making has finally come to fruition for Duke and Monica Gastiger. The former owners of Spat’s Café and Speakeasy and The Rathskeller became unintentional farmers when they purchased Windswept Farm in 2016. Located at 100 Filmore Road in State College, their RE Farm Café at Windswept Farm is an…
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After getting some expert help from golf legend Arnold Palmer, The Village at Penn State opens a first-of-its-kind park
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When Liberty Lutheran purchased The Village at Penn State in 2012, leaders began looking at ways to add more amenities to the senior living community. Dave DeLuca, Liberty’s director of real estate development, “took a shot out of the blue.” Years earlier, DeLuca had worked with golf legend Arnold Palmer, a Latrobe native…
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Help Me! I want to teach my dog some new tricks
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Let me start this off by saying that I was never a dog person until I met my partner, Becky. At first, my interactions with her dogs Stella and Bertha were very measured. I never had dogs growing up and I wasn’t sure what to do with them, and maybe I was a little…
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On Tap: Bottles have long ruled, but flexibility is helping cans become a popular choice of craft brewers – who say you can’t taste the difference
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At one time, there seemed to be little debate: Beer was simply better when it came from a bottle than a can. Whether that was a fact or just the thinking because bottles were “cooler” can be discussed. But what has become a reality in the beer-brewing business these days is that more brewers…
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Snapshot: A year after opening fair-trade store in State College, Ten Thousand Villages is thriving
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Ten Thousand Villages of State College has seen a successful year of growth since opening a store on South Atherton Street last fall. One of many Ten Thousand Villages outlets in Pennsylvania, its mission remains the same: creating fair trade opportunities for artisans in developing countries. The State College store, at 1341 South Atherton,…
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Artist of the Month: Works of Huntingdon potter to be featured in State College ceramics show
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Jack Troy was teaching English in a high school outside of Philadelphia when he was first introduced, through a colleague and friend, to the art of throwing pottery. “We each had young children and we had a lot to talk about, so I would go down after school and watch him work at the…