November 2025
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Centre County Residents Hit by Phone Scams
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Centre County Sheriff Bryan Sampsel said that in the latest round of calls scammers are pretending to be deputies from his office, using spoofed phone numbers and real names they have scraped from public sources.
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Model Railroad Club: Not Your Grandpa’s Trains
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Members of Penn State’s Model Railroad Club grow career skills while they “play with trains.”
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Preview and Score Prediction for Penn State at Rutgers
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Penn State’s rollercoaster regular season will conclude on Saturday in The Birthplace of College Football, when the Nittany Lions face Rutgers in SHI Stadium. The game will air on Big Ten Network with kickoff set for 3:30 p.m., when both teams will battle to become bowl eligible. Here’s everything to know about the Scarlet Knights…
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‘A Family Experience.’ State College Area Christmas Tree Shop Celebrates 40 Years of Spreading Holiday Joy
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For four decades, families across Centre County have bundled up and made their way to the Cannizzaro Christmas Tree Shoppe, a small, family-run operation tucked beside Meyer Dairy that has become a generational holiday tradition in State College. This year marks the shop’s 40th anniversary, and for the Cannizzaro family, who took over the business…
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Arboretum at Penn State Donates Record Produce Harvest to State College Food Bank
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Throughout this year’s growing season, volunteers and staff worked to plant, cultivate and harvest a wide variety of produce in the gardens of The Arboretum at Penn State. Those efforts wrapped up the week before Thanksgiving break with one final delivery of kale and a few other vegetables, resulting in a record-breaking 2,872 pounds of produce…
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Chaz Coleman’s Status, Recruiting Struggles, Being ‘Terry Smith Tough’ and More From Penn State’s Interim Head Coach
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Penn State interim head coach Terry Smith met with the media on Thanksgiving Eve inside Holuba Hall to provide updates on his team leading up to the final regular season game at Rutgers. Smith discussed the status of freshman defensive end Chaz Coleman as he works back from injury, the struggles of recruiting without a…
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Observations From Penn State Practice Before Regular Season Finale at Rutgers
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The Nittany Lions returned to the practice field inside Holuba Hall on a rainy Wednesday afternoon in State College one day before Thanksgiving and three days before their final regular season game. Penn State offered the small group of media members still in town a brief glimpse into practice before hitting the road to take…
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Local Jersey Mike’s Franchisee Acquires Former Rite Aid Building in Bellefonte
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The owner of three Centre County Jersey Mike’s Subs locations recently acquired a Bellefonte property that has been vacant for nearly two years. Cedar Cliff Properties LLC, which has been used by the sandwich shop chain’s local franchisees Matt and Christie Patterson to develop Jersey Mike’s locations, purchased the former Rite Aid property at 821…
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New Charges Filed Against Men Accused in Centre County Teen Sex Abuse Case
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State police at Rockview on Wednesday filed a long list of new charges, including human trafficking, against the three men accused of sexually abusing teenage girls and recording the encounters inside a Centre County home. The new charges come as investigators have spent the days after the arrests of Samuel C. Friday, Michael H. Woomer…
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Letters: Penn State Cancer Institute’s Failed Leadership; Stand Up for Community by Supporting WPSU
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Vindication tastes bitter when it comes at such a cost, but the record must now show: every alarm I sounded was justified. On Thursday, Nov. 20, Spotlight PA exposed a damning internal review of the Penn State Cancer Institute: chemotherapy overdoses, treatment delays that let cancers spread unchecked, incomplete patient records, and a toxic workplace…