September 2024
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Centre County Seeks Proposals for Broadband Expansion as State Gets Ready to Deploy $1.16B in Funding
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Centre County government is seeking proposals from service providers to expand broadband internet to underserved areas, as Pennsylvania nears the application roll out for its share of a major federal funding program. The Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved issuing a request for proposals “from internet service providers to develop their plan for expansion of…
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The Obscure Health Care Middlemen at the Center of an Election Year Policy Fight
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At issue are pharmacy benefit managers, drug middlemen who regulators say inflate prices to boost their profits, and oversight by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services.
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Part of Calder Way in State College Reopens After Emergency Waterline Repair
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Updated 4:15 p.m. Sept. 27. A section of East Calder Way in downtown State College was closed to vehicular traffic for about two hours on Friday afternoon for an emergency waterline repair, according to the borough. The road was closed between McAllister Alley and South Pugh Street at about 1:55 p.m. while crews worked to…
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Penn State-Illinois Preview and Predictions: Time for Explosiveness When it Matters
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Prepare for bright lights, loud music and screaming fans. No. 9 Penn State’s tilt with No. 19 Illinois (4-0) on Saturday is one expected to generate a massive crowd for the team’s first night game of the 2024 season. And rightfully so: This game’s a big one as both teams look to remain undefeated for…
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Wert’s Woodworking Is a Team Effort
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Retirement gave John Wert more time to do what he loved—crafting beautiful things out of wood with his grandfather’s tools—but he never imagined it would grow into the business it has become today.
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Backyard Bee Watchers, Photographers Help Discover Multiple New Species in Pa.
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Volunteers from across Pennsylvania collected and photographed thousands of bees, discovering eight species in the state for the first time.
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Pa.’s Richest Person Is Pumping Millions of Dollars Into the Race for Attorney General
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In Pennsylvania’s attorney general race, Republican Dave Sunday is getting support from billionaire Jeff Yass, and Democrat Eugene DePasquale is accusing Sunday of hiding it.
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Letters: Unwelcoming Homecoming for PSU Alumni; Wrong on Project 2025; Not Again, Glenn; Elect Womer
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With Penn State Homecoming weekend upon us, I am disgusted by our university’s hateful actions toward alumni. The board has recently ended our democratic elections for trustees, a practice established 149 years ago by our founders. On top of that, the board has muzzled trustees so that dissenting opinions cannot be expressed – a disgraceful…
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Ferguson Township Police Chief Resigns
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Ferguson Township’s police chief has stepped down less than two years into his tenure and three months before his employment agreement was set to expire. John Petrick resigned on Sept. 6, Township Manager Centrice Martin wrote in an email. Petrick and the township had mutually “agreed to part ways” at the end of his contract,…
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Round-the-Clock Work Planned on Atherton Street
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Crews will be working day and night on a section of Atherton Street in State College starting next week as PennDOT’s multi-year reconstruction project nears an end. From Monday, Sept. 30, through Thursday, Oct. 3, and again the week of Oct. 7, crews will mill the road surface between Curtin Road and West Beaver Avenue…