July 2023
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Wawa Submits Plans for First Centre County Location
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Centre County’s first Wawa is inching closer to reality as the convenience store chain recently submitted a formal land development plan for a location along Benner Pike near Bellefonte. A Wawa spokesperson confirmed in December that the Delaware County-based company is looking to open multiple stores in the State College area, and in March Benner…
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Duo Set to Take Over as Beaver Stadium Public Address Announcers
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Beaver Stadium will have two new public address announcers as Rodney Martin and Joe Putnam are set to take on those duties starting this upcoming Penn State football season, they told StateCollege.com. The duo are taking over for Dean DeVore who had been the public address announcer at Beaver Stadium since 2000 and various other…
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Bookshop Brings ‘Find Waldo’ Event to Downtown State College
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The Squirrel and Acorn Bookshop in downtown State College is hosting “Find Waldo Local,” an event co-sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and Candlewick Press, the publishing house of the wildly popular “Where’s Waldo” children’s book series. The bookshop was one of 300 locally owned bookstores nationwide picked to participate after owner Andrew Aschwanden submitted…
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Weekend Warriors
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This past weekend we hosted the third annual Weekend Warriors Adult Hockey Camp in Sun Valley, Idaho. Attendees included high school best friends John and Colin, originally from Maryland, who met up to have a mini-reunion and play some hockey. We had a 72-year-old Vietnam War veteran, Phil, from Chicago reviving a dormant adult hockey…
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Air Quality Alert Extended into Tuesday in Centre County
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More than half of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, including Centre County, will be under an air quality alert again on Tuesday as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to impact the commonwealth. The state Department of Environmental Protection issued a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day for 34 counties. Code Orange means an air quality index between…
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Summer Caddies at Penn State Golf Courses Are Working Toward Scholarship Opportunities
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This summer, golfers at the Penn State courses who sign up for a caddie are doing more than arranging for someone to carry their bag and fix divots. Golfers also are helping promising high school students pursue a Platt Evans Scholarship for college. For the second year in a row, through the Western Golf Association’s…
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Banners in Downtown State College to Honor Military Veterans
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Families can honor the military heroes in their lives with personalized lamp-post banners in downtown State College during Military Appreciation Month in November. The Downtown State College Improvement District and Penn State’s Military Appreciation Committee partnered to create the program last year. Banners will be installed in late October and will be displayed for the…
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A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Bringing ‘Me vs. Myself’ Tour to Bryce Jordan Center
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Rapper and singer A Boogie wit da Hoodie will perform at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center on Sept. 21 as part of his “Me vs Myself: The College Tour,” the venue announced on Monday. He’ll be joined by two special guests, rappers Toosii and Kaliii. Tickets can be purchased beginning at 10 a.m. on Friday, though…
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Philadelphia Man Killed in Crash on I-80 in Centre County
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State police at Rockview released details on a fatal crash involving two tractor-trailers last week on Interstate 80 westbound near Milesburg. Ilkhom Khusainov, 31, of Philadelphia, died in the crash, which occurred at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday near mile marker 154 in Boggs Township. Khusainov had pulled over to the right shoulder and was partially…
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What’s Pa.’s Past Budget Impasses Can Tell Us About the Current Standoff
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In the past 20 years, Pennsylvania has passed 13 late budgets, including four impasses that went over 100 days.