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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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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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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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Big Boy, World’s Largest Steam Locomotive, Makes Its Way Through Central Pa.
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Large crowds turned out across central Pennsylvania on Wednesday to see the world’s largest operating steam locomotive as it continues on its coast-to-coast tour in honor of America’s 250th birthday. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 is one of eight of its kind still in existence and the only one that is still operational. 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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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…
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State Theatre Show Among 6 Happy Valley Improv Performances During Arts Festival
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Happy Valley Improv will perform at The State Theatre for the first time in more than six years and first time ever on the main stage as one of its six shows this week during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. The longform improv company will take the stage in the theater’s Friedman Auditorium…
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Frank: Something Fishy
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I do not fish. I wish I could say this was a principled stance – that I oppose the catching or killing of other sentient beings for my entertainment or nourishment. The truth is, I’m the squeamish type. I don’t like handling earthworms. I especially don’t like impaling earthworms on fishhooks. Nor do I like…
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People’s Choice Festival Is Back Home in Boalsburg
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After years away from its historic home, the People’s Choice Festival is returning to Boalsburg this week, bringing with it the artists, food, music and family-friendly traditions that have made it a Centre County favorite for decades.
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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…