Savita Iyer, Town&Gown
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Ending the Nightmares
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There she was in the lobby of the courthouse in Bellefonte — a woman with four children in tow, her face badly bruised. As she set eyes on the woman, Isabelle (her name has been changed for the purposes of this article) stopped suddenly. She wondered — and not for the first time — if she…
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Coping With Heroin Crisis
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Every Sunday evening, a group of young women get together in the Boalsburg home of psychologist Dr. Jennifer Harp. They’re there for the weekly meeting of the Order of Elizabeth, a community group that Harp and Jill Loomis, a social worker in State College, started shortly after the tragic and untimely passing of 21-year-old…