July 2023
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Schlow Library Hosting After-Hours Programs for Teens and Adults
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Schlow Centre Region Library is celebrating the end of this year’s Summer Reading programs for adults and teens with a pair of upcoming after-hours events. “Mystery in the Library,” a Jazz Age murder-mystery party, will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday. Adult participants (over the age of 18) are invited register online,…
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Great PA News Quiz: School Funding Appeal, Public Pensions and a Really Big Sandwich
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Test your knowledge of the week in news, from a landmark school funding lawsuit to the “world’s largest bologna sandwich.”
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Center for the Performing Arts Unveils 2023-24 Lineup
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The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State this week announced a full 2023-24 lineup that includes a wide variety of music, dance and theater. Productions range from “Bluey’s Big Play,” a live stage show of the popular animated children’s program, to “Johnny Cash — The Official Concert Experience,” to a performance by eclectic…
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Takac, YMCA Partner for Back-to-School Donation Drive
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State Rep. Paul Takac, D-College Township, and the YMCA of Centre County are partnering for a donation drive to help local students. The Back-to-School Donation Drive began Friday and continues through Aug. 13, according to a release from Takac’s office. Donations can be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at Takac’s district office,…
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State Theatre to Host ‘Stand with Ukraine Through Film’ Project
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The State Theatre in State College will host the “Stand With Ukraine Through Film” project with a showing of “The Guide,” at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Ukrainian director Oles Sanin’s “The Guide” is a two-hour film set in the 1930s in Soviet Ukraine. The story centers on a young, American boy who is thrown into…
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How Pa. Counties Spent the First-Ever Election Grants from the State
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Act 88 poured $45 million into shoring up counties’ election needs, with a few strings attached. Now some officials are designing their budgets based on another round.
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Six Big Ten Teams in the Expanded College Football Playoff? James Franklin Could be Right
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James Franklin says he believes that when the College Football Playoff expands from four to 12 teams in 2024, the Big Ten Conference could get as many as six teams invited. That’s the 16-team Big Ten, which expands next season with the addition of USC and UCLA. That’s right — six. 6. As in a…
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Coroner’s Office Identifies State College Bicyclist Killed in South Atherton Street Crash
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The Centre County Coroner’s Office confirmed the identity of a 70-year-old State College bicyclist who died in a crash on Monday in College Township. Douglas Barch died from blunt force trauma to the chest after the crash on the 3500 block of South Atherton Street. Barch was traveling northbound at about noon on a separated…
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Construction to Get Underway for Ferguson Township Park Improvements
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Construction of long-planned improvements to a Ferguson Township park is expected to begin Monday, according to the township. Improvements at Suburban Park, 101 Suburban Avenue, will include a new pavilion with horseshoe pits, outdoor fitness exercise equipment, a new concrete entry area with a kiosk and bike rack at the existing parking lot, an asphalt…
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Gangsters to Grandmothers: Prohibition in Central PA
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The ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1919 was the culmination of temperance movements across the United States. Prayers and protests made in front of saloons during the Women’s Crusade would be answered with a nationwide prohibition of “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.” While Prohibition was founded upon good…