June 2025
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Older, Disabled Pennsylvanians Could Face Higher Fares for On-Demand Rides Without More Funding
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Shared-ride services provide key transportation services in rural areas. It’s a little-known potential casualty of Pennsylvania’s transit deadlock.
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Pet Store Inside Nittany Mall Closing After 9 Years in Business
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A pet store located inside the Nittany Mall is shutting its doors after nine years in business. Finatics Aquarium & Pet Center is conducting a going-out-of-business sale and has not yet set a final closing date, according to the store’s outgoing voicemail message on Friday. “Store closing” and “everything must go” signs are also posted…
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Heat Advisory Issued for Centre County. Here’s What to Expect
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Updated 1:12 p.m. Saturday, June 21. Potentially record-breaking temperatures and high humidity are expected as the first heat wave of the summer bears down on Centre County. The National Weather Service has upgraded an extreme heat watch to a heat advisory for central Pennsylvania from Sunday morning through Wednesday evening with highs in the 90s…
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Sips & Sounds Festival Returns for 3rd Year in State College With Local Food, Drink and Music
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An outdoor food and drink festival that has become the signature summer event for the Downtown State College Improvement District is back for its third year. Sips & Sounds Downtown will be held from 4 to 8:45 p.m. on Friday, June 27 at Sidney Friedman Park. The now annual event is a celebration of regional…
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Penn State Professor’s New Book Traces Weather’s Role in the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign
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In “The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign,” Penn State meteorology professor Jon Nese and historian Jeffrey Harding analyze how weather affected the six-week period surrounding one of the Civil War’s most significant battles.
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Great PA News Quiz: Transit Funding on the Move, Ex-Lawmaker Reports to Prison and Kitchen Clout
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In this week’s news quiz: a major opioid settlement deal, prison time for a disgraced federal lawmaker, a new kind of minimum wage hike and sporting events galore.
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Student Loan Payments Have Restarted. Here’s How to Manage the Impact to Your Credit Score
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NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores drop now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. But there are things you can do to help your score rebound. Courtney Alev, consumer advocate at Credit Karma, said it’s understandable that people have missed payments because of the mixed…
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SCASD to Hold Support Staff Job Fair
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The State College Area School District will hold a Support Staff Job Fair as it looks to fill numerous positions for the 2025-26 school year. The event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m on Thursday, June 26, at the Panorama Village Administrative Center, 240 Villa Crest Drive. All community members with a…
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Candidates Sought for 2025-26 Grange Fair Queen
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The Centre County Grange Encampment and Fair is looking for candidates to compete for the title of 2025-2026 Grange Fair Queen. Young women who are Centre County residents between the ages of 16 and 20 as of June 1, 2025 are eligible. Candidates must be single and never married. Applications are due by July 1.…
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Benninghoff, Dush to Host Paper Shredding Event
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State Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Bellefonte) and Sen. Cris Dush (R-Pine Creek Township) will host a shredding event for Centre County residents from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, June 21, at the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority, 253 Transfer Road, Bellefonte. “When you simply throw old tax returns or paperwork containing your personal information out…