Geoff Rushton
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Lane Closures Planned as Roadwork Begins on I-80 in Centre County
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Motorists will encounter lane closures as work gets underway this week for a road preservation project on Interstate 80 in parts of Centre and Clinton counties, according to PennDOT. The project is scheduled to get underway Tuesday, July 14, between mile marker 164 in Marion Township, Centre County and mile marker 171 in Porter Township,…
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Estate of Man Who Died From Electrocution in Centre County Sues Power Company
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The girlfriend and the estate of a man who died after coming into contact with a downed power line last year in Centre County filed a lawsuit on Friday accusing a power company of negligence. The lawsuit alleges that West Penn Power and its parent company FirstEnergy “negligently installed and/or maintained utility poles, power lines,…
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Pilot Program to Make 3 Downtown State College Streets One-Way
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Three State College streets will be converted to one-way under a pilot program aimed at increasing on-street parking spaces and loading zones on the eastern side of downtown. Borough Council on Monday approved a plan that will make the 100 blocks of Hiester Street, Sowers Street and Hetzel Street one-way during the sixth-month pilot beginning…
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State College to Charge for Visitor Street Parking in Neighborhoods During Penn State Football Weekends
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Visitors accustomed to free overnight street parking in State College’s residential neighborhoods during Penn State football weekends are in for a change this fall. State College Borough Council on Monday approved a six-month pilot program that will require payment for parking on streets in the Holmes-Foster, Highlands and College Heights neighborhoods when special event rates…
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Fraternity House on Penn State Campus Damaged in Fire
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Updated 7:30 p.m. July 9, 2026. Multiple Centre County fire companies responded to a blaze that damaged a Penn State fraternity house on Thursday afternoon. Alpha Fire Company was dispatched at about 3:45 p.m. to the Alpha Zeta House at 360 N. Burrowes Rd. and found heavy smoke on the roof from what Centre Region…
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Mount Nittany Medical Center Workers Set Strike Date, Duration
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Mount Nittany Medical Center employees plan to begin a five-day strike on July 27, following a vote on Wednesday. About 98% of the hospital’s 950 unionized employees voted in favor of the work stoppage plan after months of negotiations failed to produce a new contract agreement, according to a release from SEIU Healthcare PA. The…
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Commissioners, Benninghoff Back Effort to Make Penn’s Cave a State Park
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Penn’s Cave and Wildlife Park has been a privately-owned attraction open to the public for more than 140 years, and now it could become Pennsylvania’s 126th state park. The Centre County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a letter supporting efforts to have the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources acquire and maintain…
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What to Know About Parking and Transit During Arts Fest
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The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts returns Wednesday, July 8, through Sunday, July 12, marking the busiest days of the summer in downtown State College and Penn State’s University Park campus. The 60th year of the festival kicked off with Children and Youth Day from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Festivities continue…
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Mount Nittany Medical Center Employees Set to Strike
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Updated 7:11 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Mount Nittany Medical Center employees appear ready to strike for the first time in more than 20 years after negotiations with management failed to produce a new contract. The hospital’s 950 workers represented by SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania will vote Wednesday to decide the date and duration of a…
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State College Borough Council Approves Ordinance Restricting Cooperation With ICE
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State College Borough Council on Monday approved an ordinance that formally prohibits municipal employees from participating in or providing borough resources for civil immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant. The 7-0 vote — which followed 90 minutes of discussion during most of which anti-ICE protesters could be heard chanting and yelling outside the municipal building…