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    2 dozen agencies to offer addiction resources at Centre County fair

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    BELLEFONTE — Two dozen participants have announced they will be in attendance at the HOPE Remembrance Ceremony and Addiction Resource Fair, scheduled at Match Factory Place beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 29. “We want to hold this event to get people who are dealing with heroin and opioid abuse, in some form or…

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    Philipsburg: A community close to my heart

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    Last week, I had the opportunity to do something I haven’t done in 25 years. I got to eat cafeteria food, off of a cafeteria tray, in a middle school cafeteria. Pizza, pierogis and a kielbasa sandwich with sauerkraut. I was back in my old stomping grounds of Philipsburg to talk to some of…

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    Centre County handles late-winter storm

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    Several hours before the first snowflake touched Centre County ground early on the morning of March 14, boroughs and townships were busy preparing for what some were calling “The Storm of the Century.” While the storm fell far short of that moniker, crews were prepared for the worst. Patton Township and State College…

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    Changes have brightened outlook at Philipsburg-Osceola schools

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    CHESTER HILL — In 2012, the Philipsburg-Osceola Area School District was in serious trouble. Bad money management had the district in financial difficulty. Struggles, personal and professional, between the administration and school board directors were routinely making headlines. And, student standardized testing scores were among the lowest in the state. Fast-forward to 2017 and…

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    Moshannon Valley Economic Development Partnership looks to keep adding to tool box

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    PHILIPSBURG — For decades, the economy in Philipsburg and the surrounding Moshannon Valley was dependent on manufacturing. Dozens of sewing factories and a huge cigar plant helped push the local economy well into the 1980s; however, those factories, and the work inside of them, were eventually moved off to other countries, where labor is much…

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    Loans approved for Philipsburg Super Bowl, MVEMS ambulance

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    PHILIPSBURG — A local emergency service organization and a bowling center were recently beneficiaries of the Moshannon Valley Economic Development Partnership Revolving Loan Program. Loans were approved to Genna Ice ($100,000) for the purchase of what is now called Philipsburg Super Bowl and to Moshannon Valley Emergency Medical Services ($59,000) for a new ambulance.…

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    Ferguson Township Police closer to accreditation

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    BELLEFONTE — For the last several years, the Ferguson Township Police Department has been working to make sure all its policies and practices were “up to snuff.” Now, according to department Chief Diane Conrad, the hard work is paying off, and soon, the department may achieve PA Police Accreditation, making it the final policing…

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    Philipsburg-Osceola cheerleaders win big honors

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    WINGATE — Hundreds of varsity cheerleaders took to the mats Feb. 11 at Bald Eagle Area High School for the annual Mountain League cheerleading competition. Students from BEA, Philipsburg-Osceola and State College participated in the event. The Philipsburg-Osceola team, under the direction of Mary Slogosky, grabbed a first-place finish in the small-varsity division, as…

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    Furniture donation boosts Bellefonte SpringBoard incubator

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    BELLEFONTE — The good fortune of a State College business is benefitting the start-up business incubator in Bellefonte known as SpringBoard. Vana Dainty, executive director of BelleKey, announced Feb. 7 at the Centre County Board of Commissioner’s regular weekly meeting that software company Blue Mountain Quality Resources of State College has grown out of…

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    ClearWater Conservancy gets $80,000 grant to protect waterways

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    STATE COLLEGE — Water quality in the Juniata and Susquehanna watersheds will soon be on the rise thanks to a recently announced riparian buffer grant awarded to ClearWater Conservancy through the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The grant, according to ClearWater’s habitat biologist Colleen DeLong, will allow the group to introduce vegetated…