July 2025
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After Years of Secrecy, Penn State Board Discloses Details of Closed-Door Meetings
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A recent legal settlement with Spotlight PA mandates that the university disclose what trustees are doing during their private conference sessions.
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Face It, Campers, Outhouses Are the Pits
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Another thing I’m aging out of: camping. My parents were not outdoorsy. My first intensive nature experience wasn’t with them but with my grammar school gym teacher. Every summer, Anthony Noto took a dozen sixth-grade boys on a six-week camping trip to the American Southwest in two Volkswagen buses. I loved it, though I can’t…
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Big Ten’s Petitti: No Support for SEC’s At-Large Bid Preference for College Football Playoff
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Big Ten commissioner doubled down on the league’s preference for multiple automatic qualifiers in the next version of the College Football Playoff on Tuesday, increasing the likelihood of a showdown with the Southeastern Conference when the format for 2026 is decided. At the league’s football media days, Tony Petitti said…
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State College Borough Council to Consider Temporarily Suspending Responsible Contractor Ordinance
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State College officials will consider temporarily suspending the borough’s Responsible Contractor Ordinance after multiple projects failed to get bidders who met its conditions since it went into effect in March. A proposal to suspend the ordinance “as we continue to work through the issues that we have had securing bids from the contractors that do…
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CBICC Joins National Coalition Advocating for Federal Research Funding
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The Chamber of Business and Industry of Centre County has joined a growing nonpartisan alliance of business organizations to advocate for protecting and increasing scientific research funding in the next federal budget and beyond. CBICC is one of more than 70 organizations and chambers in 33 states to join the the Business for Federal Research…
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State College Making Changes to Downtown Parking Meter Limits. Here’s What to Know
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State College is trying changes to downtown street meter time limits and enforcement to address what borough officials say is a growing issue of meter feeding in violation of the parking code. Borough Council on Monday approved a pilot program to extend 90-minute meters — which constitute most of the downtown street meters — to…
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Happy Valley Adventure Bureau Board Names New Chair, Members
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The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau Board of Directors recently elected Bellefonte-area business owner and Spring Township supervisor David Capperella as chair of the board for Centre County’s tourism promotion agency, effective July 15. Capparella, president of Capparella Furniture, succeeds outgoing chair Jennifer Brooks-Stahl, corporate director of sales for Hospitality Asset Management Company, who completed her…
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10 Retired CATA Buses Bound for 2028 LA Olympic and Paralympic Games
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The Centre Area Transportation Authority is contributing to the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games by donating 10 of its retired buses to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The contribution came as Los Angeles has called on transit systems nationwide to help prepare for a “car-free Olympics” by donating buses to transport athletes and…
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Blue Brick Theatre to Host Second Round of ‘Improv Inferno’
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Happy Valley Improv is bringing back its spiciest event for a second round. Six members of the longform improv company will bring the laughter while consuming spicy foods during “Improv Inferno” at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Blue Brick Theatre. The first iteration of “Improv Inferno” drew a sold-out crowd to the theater, located…
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Fun and Family: How Some Sports Figures Have Illuminated What’s Really Important
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It’s the dog days of the summer. Accordingly it was a slow sports week last week. The NFL, NBA, NHL and college football are all in their offseason and had essentially nothing going on, and MLB and MLS had and have their all-star breaks. However, golf had a pretty big event on the sports calendar.…