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Centre County Library Receives $750K Grant for Centre Hall Branch Expansion
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The Centre County Library and Historical Museum has reached a significant milestone for the planned major expansion of its Centre Hall library branch. The Hamer Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to the project, which will double the size of the existing facility to create a modern space of more than 5,000 square feet. Pennsylvania’s…
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A Promise Kept: The Hope Fund Celebrates 5th Annual ‘A Toast to T.J.’ Event
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What began as a community rallying around a young husband and father battling a rare form of cancer has grown into The Hope Fund, a volunteer nonprofit that has quietly helped more than 300 Penns Valley families facing medical emergencies and personal crises.
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‘A Labor of Love.’ Arts Fest Celebrates 60 Years of Creativity and Community
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The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts celebrated its 60th anniversary with new attractions, returning traditions and hundreds of artists filling downtown State College and Penn State’s campus, continuing a summer tradition that has become one of the region’s signature events. Held July 8-12, this year’s festival featured more than 300 juried artists from across…
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‘Glad We’re Back.’ Vendors, Organizers Welcome Return of People’s Choice to Boalsburg
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After seven years away, the People’s Choice Festival of Pennsylvania Arts & Crafts has returned to the place where it began. The four-day festival was once again being held on the grounds of the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg Thursday through Sunday after spending four years at the Grange Fairgrounds in Centre Hall and missing…
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St. Joseph’s Student Shines in National FBLA Competition
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Public speaking began early for Connor Miller. And practice makes perfect, as he discovered last week at the National Future Business Leaders of America Conference in San Antonio.
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BookFest PA Returns to Schlow Library with Largest Lineup of Authors Yet During Festival Week
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As thousands of visitors head to downtown State College for the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts this weekend and to enjoy festival week, Schlow Centre Region Library will once again serve as both a refuge from the crowds and heat, as well as a destination of its own. The library’s annual BookFest PA returns…
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Christmas in July Returns to People’s Choice Festival
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The People’s Choice Festival will bring a little Christmas magic to the middle of the summer for the second consecutive year.
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Young Entrepreneurs Kick Off 60th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts with Children & Youth Day
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The 60th Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts began Wednesday with a celebration dedicated to its youngest artists, performers and visitors, as hundreds of families gathered in downtown State College. Held a day before the festival’s nationally recognized Sidewalk Sale and Exhibition opens, the event featured the Children’s & Youth Sidewalk Sale, where 175 artists…
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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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AstroFest Offers Stargazing and Astronomy Activities During Arts Festival
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The Penn State Eberly College of Science’s popular AstroFest returns for four nights of free astronomy activities and stargazing this week during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. The college’s Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics will welcome visitors to Davey Laboratory on Pollock Road from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. each night from Wednesday, July…