Penn State, State College Noon News & Features: Friday, July 15

The Festivals – Central Pa. Festival of the Arts and People’s Choice Festival of Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts – are in full swing. You can read our coverage on our news page and at our sister site, Onward State and find out what’s coming up in our comprehensive Arts Fest Guide:

Arts Festival Coverage

• Rough Economy Bears Mixed Results for Festival Artists (StateCollege.com)

• Arts Fest: CollegeIQ Sponsored Planking Contest (Onward State)

• Arts Festival 2011: Map of Downtown Festival (Onward State)

• Gorgeous Weather, Crowds Herald Arts Festival’s Start (StateCollege.com)

• Hundreds Turn Out for Discovery Space Opening in State College (StateCollege.com)

• Boalsburg Festival Gives Art Lovers a Choice (StateCollege.com)

• Workers Make Final Arts Festival Preparations (StateCollege.com)

• Jay Paterno Column – Marking the Passage of Time with Memories of Arts Festivals Past (StateCollege.com)

• Photos: Arts Festival 2011 in Full Swing (Penn State Live)

• Video: Artist Can’t Leave Arts Festival (WTAJ TV)

Meanwhile, State College, Penn State and Centre County remain in the news — locally, nationally, internationally and in cyberspace. We post the latest sampling of stories of note, with links, from our site and across the Web every weekday in Noon News & Features.

Here is Friday’s offering:

News

• Penn State Announces Proposed Tuition Increases for 2011-’12 (StateCollege.com)

• Board of Trustees Meets; President Spanier’s Remarks (Penn State Live)

• Lehigh Valley Campus to Celebrate a Century of Service to Region (Penn State Live)

• Former PSU Student Accused of Soliciting Jihadists to Kill Americans (WTAJ TV)

• New Course to Focus on Crisis (Daily Collegian)

Columns/Opinion

• Russell Frank – In Memoriam: Nettie Frank, 1922-2011 (StateCollege.com)

Sports

• Spikes Succeed Early, but Yankees Strike Last (State College Spikes)

• Former Penn State Standout Foley Wins NJ Open (Associated Press via USA Today)

• Hockey: Penn State Joins Niagara Women in CHA (Buffalo News)

• Paterno and Trio of Student-Athletes to Represent Nittany Lions at 40th Annual Big Ten Kickoff Activities (GoPSUsports)

• Forty-Five Nittany Lions Named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars (GoPSUsports)

• Gardner-Webb Hires Ron Dickerson Sr. to Coach Defensive Line (GWU Sports)