May 2010
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News Wrap: Wake-Up Call (5/28/10)
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A volleyball championship begins at Penn State, Boalsburg prepares for Memorial Day, and the new traffic-control tower at University Park Airport makes big progress.
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Thousands Expected As Happy Volley Championships Open At University Park
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Nearly 400 youth-volleyball teams will be in the State College area this weekend for the Happy Volley Club Championships. As many as 10,000 visitors are expected.
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Boalsburg Honors Memorial Day Traditions For 146th Year
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Since the late 1800s, Boalsburg residents have passed their Memorial Day story from one generation to the next. This weekend, the village will again honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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Frame Lifted For Control Tower At University Park Airport
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The metal skeleton of the new air-traffic-control room at University Park Airport is now in place, hoisted some 80 feet high. Photographer Nathan A. Smith shot these images early Thursday.
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News Wrap: Wake-Up Call (5/27/10)
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Saidel backs off in the lieutenant-governor primary, Penn State plans pay increases for its employees, and a columnist examines the idea of ’emerging adulthood.’
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Putting Away Childish Ways
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I remember learning about Erik Erickson’s eight stages of life, but where in the life-development spectrum do we put a 25-year-old who needs to be on Mom or Dad’s health insurance plan?
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UPDATED: State Official Praises Saidel For ‘Difficult Decision’ To Concede
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Jonathan Saidel will no longer support a recount in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. The decision puts Scott Conklin in line to be the party’s nominee.
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Doris Myers: A Long Lifetime Of Poetry, Art and Work
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In nine decades of life, Doris Myers has faced serious economic hardship, a workforce and society that favored men over women, the death of her husband, and even cancer and surgery.
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UPDATED: Saidel Allows Recount To Proceed In Lt. Gov. Race
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The latest vote counts still put Scott Conklin several thousand ballots ahead of Jonathan Saidel, his closest primary rival for lieutenant governor. But the race isn’t over yet, a Saidel aide said.