Teresa Mull
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Boal Museum Rescues Victorian Greenhouse
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“For decades, since I was an undergraduate here at Penn State, I would drive by (and see) this beautiful Victorian greenhouse just falling down,” Robert Cameron says. Fast-forward a few years and Cameron is now museum director of the Boal Mansion Museum in Boalsburg, and he’s realizing his dream of giving the neglected greenhouse —…
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A Harmonious Obsession: Richard Sleigh, a Master of the Harmonica, Reflects on a Life Immersed in Music
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Richard Sleigh of Boalsburg has made a life of playing and teaching the harmonica and building custom harps. He’s shared the stage with symphony orchestras and musical giants – Bo Diddley and Taj Mahal, to name just a couple. Sleigh, 69, is known the world over as a master harmonicist, but he traces his inspiration…
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Rush Township Planners Recommend Rezoning Request for Graystone Court Development
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The Rush Township Planning Commission voted to recommend rezoning a parcel of land that was the site of the Philipsburg Hospital from commercial to village/mixed use.
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COVID Causes Shortage of New and Used Cars — and Rentals
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Ron Kratzer, sales manager of Joel Confer Ford in Bellefonte, has been selling cars for more than 50 years. “I sold my first car when I was 15 years old,” Kratzer said. “I’ve seen it all.” Since the COVID-19 pandemic started causing shutdowns last year, Kratzer said his company “did very well” in terms of…
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Fireworks to Launch at ‘Philipsburg Festival’ This Summer
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Pat Romano, owner of the We Are Inn, was granted permission by Philipsburg Borough Council to have a fireworks display as part of the Philipsburg Festival, which is being held after Heritage Days was canceled for 2021.
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The Arts Community Is Beginning to Emerge from a Most Difficult Year, but Challenges Remain
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As the nation continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, we take a moment to check in with a few of our many area arts organizations. With restrictions and shutdowns, our once-lively and diverse cultural scene has been dealt a heavy blow, but innovation from the creative types who lead these institutions has helped them…
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‘Comfortable, Homey, Quaint’: Poppy’s Café in Philipsburg Offers an Eclectic ‘Taste of Everything’
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The dining room of Poppy & Co. Café in downtown Philipsburg feels like the set of a TV show: restaurant owner Jenny Horton greets her regulars by name, often with a wink, some friendly teasing, and a hug. “It’s definitely family-oriented,” Horton says. “We yell at our customers – I think they like that. We…
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Philipsburg Borough Gives Old, Fallen Trees a Second Life
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PHILIPSBURG — Though Christmas is long past, the space of the Philipsburg Borough garage looks something like Santa’s Workshop these days, as gifts to the people of Philipsburg are being made. The borough crew, led by Borough Manager Joel Watson, has been keeping busy between plowing days by giving ancient, local trees a second purpose.…
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Neighbor to Neighbor: ‘Cleansed by Fire’
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In an extraordinarily difficult year, we found kindness in every corner of Centre County. Town&Gown’s ‘Neighbor to Neighbor’ series explores some of those stories. PHILIPSBURG — “We thought we were done,” says Bill DeBoer, reflecting on the fire that nearly destroyed Brown Dog Catering, the business he owns and operates with his wife, Kristin,…
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Interpretations of Beauty: The work of renowned local artist Harold Altman finds renewed exposure, 17 years after his death
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The late Harold Altman was a world-renowned artist whose work appears in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris, and elsewhere. Altman spent many years in Happy Valley, capturing rural scenes of Mount Nittany and the surrounding countryside. With his death in 2003,…