January 2022
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Penn State Football: Department Targets Ticket Brokers as Renewals Get Underway
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Penn State Athletics has stopped the renewal process for about 460 Penn State football season-ticket-holding accounts, according to a department official. Those accounts — according to Penn State — were deemed to be ticket brokers and were notified via email as the renewal process got underway on Wednesday. “…[W]e did an analysis of our inventory…
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Centre County Adds 1 COVID-19 Death, 267 Cases; Pennsylvania Reports 18,207 New Positives
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Centre County registered one new COVID-19 death and 267 more cases of the virus on Wednesday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The death is the county’s 306th attributed to COVID-19 and the 17th reported this month. The new cases bring the county’s total to 31,031 (27,838 confirmed and 3,193 probable). For the third…
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Residents Voice Opposition to Tree Removal Plan for PennDOT Work on Atherton Street in State College
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A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation plan to remove and replace nearly 50, mostly mature trees for road work on South Atherton Street in State College has drawn concerns and opposition from Centre Region residents. The State College Tree Commission voted unanimously to express their opposition to the plan as currently designed and refer the matter…
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Once Again: To Zoom or Not to Zoom
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Much as I love my job, teaching at Penn State sometimes feels like driving with a co-pilot who has no sense of direction. When administration tells faculty to turn right, I’m thinking, hmm, we should probably hang a left. Mostly I’m thinking of the way Old Main has managed the COVID situation. After a year…
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Penn State Football: George, Hansard, Sullivan-Brown Headline Notable Names Absent From Recent Roster Update
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Penn State football’s most recent roster update features a handful of players no longer with the team who still have remaining eligibility. Generally speaking these players have opted not to use an extra year of eligibility granted to every player who was enrolled with a program during the 2020 COVID-19 shortened season. This is instead…
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Penn State Men’s Basketball: Minnesota Game Postponed Due to COVID-19 Positives Among Gopher Program
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The Penn State men’s basketball home game against Minnesota scheduled for Wednesday night has been postponed due to positive COVID-19 results within the Golden Gophers program. According to a press release, Penn State and Minnesota will work with the Big Ten Conference on potential options to reschedule the game. Ticket holders for the Minnesota game will…
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Centre County Adds 140 COVID-19 Cases; Pennsylvania Reports 13,459 New Positives
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Centre County reported 140 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday to increase its total to 30,764, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Among total cases, 27,669 are confirmed and 3,095. Pennsylvania added 13,459 COVID-19 positives to bring the statewide total to 2,487,925. Tuesday’s statewide total was the lowest since Dec. 28 and marked a second…
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Red Horse Tavern in Pleasant Gap to Close at the End of April
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A Pleasant Gap restaurant that dates back to the 1950s will soon be closing its doors. Red Horse Tavern, 104 N. Main St., plans to close at the end of April, owner and head chef Justin Leiter wrote in a Facebook post this week. “It’s been an absolutely amazing run,” Leiter wrote. “It’s incredible to…
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Penn State Football: Chuck Losey Promoted to Assistant Athletic Director of Performance Enhancement
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Penn State football has promoted Chuck Losey to the Assistant Director of Performance Enhancement, replacing Dwight Galt III who recently retired from the same position after a long career at Penn State, Vanderbilt and Maryland. Losey joined the Penn State staff as assistant director of performance enhancement in January 2014, following coach James Franklin from…
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Penn State Basketball: After Promising Start, Nittany Lions Face a Grind Over Remaining Big Ten Schedule
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Penn State men’s basketball sits at 8-7 on the year and 3-4 in Big Ten play with 13 regular season games remaining between now and the Big Ten Tournament. At what amounts to the midway point in Micah Shrewsberry’s first year as head coach of the Nittany Lions, his tenure in State College certainly won’t…