January 2024
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Penn State Adds New Campus Street Names for 911 Addressing
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Penn State’s University Police and Public Safety (UPPS) Emergency Management unit is reaching the end of a two-year project to provide all locations at University Park and Penn State’s Commonwealth campuses with 911 addresses for emergencies. More than 20 new street signs for previously unnamed roads were installed across the University Park campus to provide…
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Kish for the Cure Campaign Raises Record Total for Local Cancer-Fighting Charities
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Kish Bank recently announced that its annual employee-led fundraising effort supporting local cancer-related nonprofits raised a record-breaking grand total of $74,871. Donations to the 2023 Kish for the Cure Campaign were distributed this month to three beneficiaries: the Bob Perks Cancer Assistance Fund, Pennsylvania Pink Zone and the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of…
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One on One Fitness Raises $39,000 for Centre Volunteers in Medicine, Youth Service Bureau
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One on One raised nearly $40,000 for two local nonprofits with its annual charitable campaign. The fitness and wellness center, located at 424 W. Aaron Dr., State College, will donate $39,395 to Centre Volunteers in Medicine and the Centre County Youth Service Bureau as a result of its 2023 “Give Back” initiative, the business announced…
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Centre Region Townships Get Nearly $450,000 for Traffic Safety Projects
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Two Centre Region Township’s will receive nearly $450,000 in state funding for traffic safety improvement projects, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced on Monday. College and Harris townships are among 35 municipalities awarded about $39 million from PennDOT’s Automated Red Light Enforcement funding program. The program distributes funds supplied by fines collected from red light…
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County Awards $26.4M in Bids for Major Renovation of Former Centre Crest Building
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Centre County’s Board of Commissioners on Tuesday voted unanimously to award more than $26.4 million in bids to four prime contractors for a major overhaul of the former Centre Crest building in Bellefonte. The renovation will convert the 86-year-old building into a hub for county human services departments. The county has been working on plans…
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Local Historia: Departing for World War I
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Bellefonte and Boalsburg troops fought in the ‘War to End All Wars’
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Column No. 300: Why I Write
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“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave” – Oscar Wilde Well, folks, today is a milestone of sorts. This column represents my 300th since I first began writing for StateCollege.com in the fall of 2009. I was in my third year as the executive director of the Nittany Lion Club at Penn…
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Lady Lions Dazzle in Front of Season-High Attendance
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Penn State women’s basketball rolled past Maryland 112-76 Sunday afternoon to clinch the program’s first midseason winning record since 2016-17. The win — the Lady Lions’ first over Maryland since 2003 — was the team’s 15th of the season, the most in a single season throughout Carolyn Kieger’s Penn State coaching career. Since arriving in Happy Valley…
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Construction Delayed for New Toftrees Resort Hotel, Existing Guest Rooms to Reopen
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A new luxury hotel at Toftrees Golf Resort is going to have to wait a little longer. Construction of the new hotel will not begin in the spring as previously anticipated, and guest rooms in the existing hotel at the resort are expected to reopen by the end of March, Plato Ghinos, president of Toftrees…
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Pa. Supreme Court Sets the Stage to Consider Whether the State Constitution Protects Abortion
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A new Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision doesn’t resolve whether Medicaid can pay for abortion or decide if it’s protected by the state constitution, but it offers hints about the justices’ thinking.