August 2022
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Penn State Football Names Captains for 2022 Season
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Penn State football announced this week six team captains encompassing all phases of the game. The group includes senior safety Ji’Ayir Brown, redshirt senior quarterback Sean Clifford, senior defensive tackle PJ Mustipher, redshirt junior offensive lineman Juice Scruggs, redshirt senior long snapper Chris Stoll and redshirt senior linebacker Jonathan Sutherland. Clifford and Sutherland become the first four-time team captains program history.…
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Planet Fitness Opens in Downtown State College
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Planet Fitness in downtown State College has opened its doors to the public. The gym is located at the Fraser Centre, 118 S. Fraser St., in the former location of H&M, which closed in the summer of 2021. It’s the fitness club’s second Centre Region location, joining one other that opened at the Nittany Mall in 2014 and added an…
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Toftrees Resort Owners Eyeing Major Redevelopment
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A major redevelopment project to upgrade and expand the 50-year-old Toftrees Golf Resort is in the planning stages, according to information presented to the Patton Township Board of Supervisors on Wednesday night. The redeveloped “leisure and conferencing center,” would have 150 hotel rooms within the 140,000 square-foot resort and surrounding grounds, according to a summary…
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Grange Fair Offers Free Concerts at Three Venues
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There’s nothing better than free, live entertainment, and the 148th Centre County Grange Fair has plenty of that for music lovers of all types not only at the grandstand, but also at the Southside Stage and in Jubilee Grove. All performances are included with admission to the fair, which runs from Friday through Aug. 27.…
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State Police Searching for Missing Centre County Mother and Daughter
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Updated with additional information on Sunday, Aug. 21. State police at Rockview are searching for a missing Centre County woman and her 10-year-old daughter who were last seen nearly two weeks ago, according to a public information release on Thursday. Crystal Oburn, 44, and her daughter were last seen leaving a Blanchard residence on Aug.…
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Penn State Reports First Monkeypox Case at University Park
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A Penn State student has tested positive for monkeypox, marking the first reported case at the University Park campus. The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed the student, who lives off campus, tested positive on Aug. 13, according to a university news release. The student “has been seen by health care providers, and is currently isolating…
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Penn State Football: Franklin, Smith and Clifford Dish Out Team Chemistry Tidbits
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Coaches will often state that winning teams have a great locker room atmosphere. Sometimes you will even hear how a team improved its chemistry from the year before, or that this team “was one of their favorites.” The list of platitudes and praise continues on and on but it doesn’t reveal a whole lot about…
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Big Ten Conference Announces Media Rights Deal with CBS, FOX, NBC and Peacock
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The Big Ten Conference announced on Thursday morning that it has reached a record seven-year broadcast and media rights deal with CBS, FOX, NBC and NBCUniversal’s streaming platform, Peacock. While the conference did not announce the financial scope of the deal in its initial press release, multiple reports from within the industry state that the…
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Fall Semester Returns, Welcoming the Latest Chapter of Storied Legacy
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The quiet of summertime in State College is but a few hours from being jetted into hyperspeed as the students return for the fall semester. After two long years of COVID protocols, social distancing and hybrid/remote learning there is a desire for a full return to normalcy. But this fall is a time of continuing…
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College Township Seeking Public Comments on Pedestrian Facilities Master Plan
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College Township has opened a 60-day public comment period for residents to provide input on its pedestrian facilities master plan. “Walkable College Township – A Pedestrian Facilities Master Plan,” has been in development since 2020, building on the township’s 2018 Sidewalk Master Plan and the Centre Region Bike Plan to identify ways to fill connectivity…