September 2019
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Penn State Football: Nittany Lions Land Three-Star Commit
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Penn State football landed another defensive back commitment in the form of three-star safety Elijah Gaines.
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Sports medicine specialist hired by Mount Nittany Physician Group
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STATE COLLEGE — Mount Nittany Health has announced, through a press release, the addition of Kevin Wilson, MD, to Mount Nittany Physician Group Orthopedics, as an orthopedic sports medicine specialist. “Helping people get back to where they want to be is what inspires me as a surgeon,”…
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Low impact yoga to benefit seniors’ health
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Yoga is well known to increase strength, mobility and balance through low-impact movements. While important for everyone, this is perhaps even more so for aging seniors. Approximately 10 million Americans over the age 50 have osteoporosis. Fifty percent of women and 25 percent of men over…
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Area doctor part of new medicine national broadcast
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ALTOONA — Alan Kivitz, M.D., founder of the Altoona Center for Clinical Research and the Altoona Arthritis and Osteoporosis Center, recently received the honor of being asked to be a part of a live national broadcast panel, according to a press release. Six of these live national broadcasts were performed over two consecutive…
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The Village officially opens at Palmer Park
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STATE COLLEGE — The Village at Penn State recently held a reception to celebrate the official opening of Palmer Park. On Sept. 12, 2013, when the park was first introduced as a plan for a multipurpose outdoor recreation area, The Village hosted Arnold Palmer, who had just…
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Photo op: Migratory birds visiting wetlands
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JULIAN — The Tom Ridge Wetlands is the site for the Autumn in the Wetlands photography contest sponsored by Wildlife For Everyone and The Centre County Gazette. The wetlands host a number of species, from mammals to reptiles to amphibians; but this time of year is especially…
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Bellefonte centenarian discusses farm life, service time
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BELLEFONTE — On Oct. 6, rural Bellefonte resident and World War II veteran Kenneth Spicer will reach 100 years of age. He was born in 1919 in rural Bellefonte. Spicer has lived his entire life at the family dairy farm at Buffalo Run. His grandfather operated the…
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State College Contractor Charged with Theft of Wages After Grand Jury Investigation
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A State College-based mechanical contractor and the company’s owner are facing charges after a statewide grand jury investigation allegedly found they operated a scheme to underpay workers on a public works project.
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Fall Festival and Car Show draws crowd
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SNOW SHOE — The calendar says autumn is beginning, but with the temperature near 80 degrees under brilliant sunshine, it felt more like mid-summer in Snow Shoe as the town’s Fall Festival and Car Show was held on Sept. 21 in Snow Shoe Park. This annual event…
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Schlow Library offers several options for teenagers
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STATE COLLEGE — Libraries and teenagers may seem like an odd match to some, but the fact is libraries, including Schlow Centre Region Library, in State College, have much to offer those who are in the transformative years of adolescence. In October, libraries across the country will be celebrating teens with TeenTober, a new month-long…