Sam Stitzer
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Centre Hall Science Night offers ‘edible comet,’ ‘elephant toothpaste’
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CENTRE HALL — The Centre Hall Elementary School held its second annual Science Night on April 12 at the school. The event, sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Group, featured 24 different groups displaying and demonstrating various aspects of scientific study. “The purpose is promoting science and exposing kids to a lot of different fields and…
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Spring Mills hosts annual Rodney Myers Memorial Race
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SPRING MILLS — About 50 people competed in the eighth annual Rodney Myers Memorial Run Around Egg Hill on April 9. The event is held in memory of Rodney Myers, a Penns Valley High School wrestler and an avid runner who often trained in the Spring Mills and Egg Hill areas. Myers passed away…
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Take me out to the (very) old ball game at Greenwood Furnace State Park
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JACKSON TOWNSHIP — This time of year brings on an American rite of spring — the opening of baseball season, when teams from Little League, high school, college and the pros take to the field to delight fans of the national pastime. The game’s long and colorful history goes back at least to the…
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Czech immigrants, now Georges Valley residents, celebrate 50 years in America
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GREGG TOWNSHIP — Rudy and Phyllis Stackhouse, of Georges Valley, hosted a party April 1 celebrating their friends George and Milena Bucek’s 50 years of American citizenship. The Buceks arrived in New York City on March 31, 1967, carrying just two suitcases of belongings and leaving family, friends and other possessions behind. In…
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Church dinner fundraiser boosts Penns Valley YMCA
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SPRING MILLS — A ham loaf dinner was served at New Hope Lutheran Church on March 25 as a fundraiser for the Penns Valley YMCA. Church member Sharon Horner noticed that several YMCA staffers also attend the New Hope church, which has been serving community dinners on the second Saturday of nearly every month,…
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Centre Hall Elementary School hosts family literacy night
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CENTRE HALL — The Centre Hall Elementary School hosted a family literacy night March 21 to promote at-home family reading habits. The event featured a fairy tale theme, with several stations around the building set up with readings and games based on familiar fairy tales. Students were issued cards that were punched as they…
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Film military museum in Boalsburg focuses on Huertgen Forest WWII battle
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BOALSBURG — About 30 people attended a screening March 18 of the 2007 German documentary “You Enter Germany: Bloody Huertgen and the Siegfried Line” at the Pennsylvania Military Museum. The film focuses on the World War II battle of Huertgen Forest. Military museum educator Joe Horvath welcomed the audience and gave background information on…
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VFW Post Closes Its Doors; Members Hope for New Home
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March 12 marked the end of an era in the village of Potters Mills, as the Veterans of Foreign Wars Smith-Sweetwood Post No. 9575, established in 1947, closed its doors for the last time.
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Penns Valley students dig into garden, reading
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SPINRG MILLS — Jim Flanagan, of the Penns Valley Conservation Association, assisted by Dan Shimp, known as Farmer Dan, visited Penns Valley Elementary and Intermediate School on March 2 assist sixth-grade students with a courtyard garden and read to first-graders. Several sixth-graders volunteered to help with leveling ground to place a small shed in…
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2 Penns Valley Girl Scouts earn Gold Awards
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CENTRE HALL — Jessye Smith and Alexis Witherite, of Girl Scout Troop 40073, were presented Gold Awards during a ceremony at Trinity United Church of Christ on Feb. 25. The Gold Award is the highest award in the Girl Scouting program. According to Girl Scouts of America data, only 5.4 percent of Girl Scouts…