Sam Stitzer

Some area kids played in their own Super Bowl — the Juniata Valley Football League’s Midget Division championship game — at Mitchell Field in Lewistown on Oct. 30. The Penns Valley Rams fell to the State College Lions in what the game’s announcer dubbed “the battle of Centre County.”  The youth football teams are…

SPRING MILLS — On a clear autumn night in Penns Valley on Oct. 15, as the full moon rose in the east, the sound of blaring brass, woodwinds and percussion delighted a crowd of nearly 1,000 people at the Penns Valley High School stadium during the 2016 Centre/Clearfield County Marching Band Festival. Nine marching…

Traveling east from Centre Hall along Route 192, one encounters the small villages of Madisonburg and Rebersburg. Both are located in Miles Township in Brush Valley, flanked by Mount Nittany on the north and Brush Mountain on the south, and are part of the Penns Valley School District. Both towns are surrounded by farmlands. …

SPRING MILLS — The Penns Valley Historical Museum held a history dinner meeting on Oct. 13 at the New Hope Lutheran Church on Route 45, west of Spring Mills. The guest speaker for the evening was LeDon Young, a Centre Hall attorney and historian, who gave a presentation on the history and legend of Penns…

SPRING MILLS — Young football players battled it out on the gridiron at Penns Valley High School on Oct. 9 during “Tackle Cancer,” a special Youth Football League fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. All proceeds from raffles of T-shirts and several items donated by parents, coaches and local businesses, as well as a…

AARONSBURG — The village of Aaronsburg welcomed the month of October with its annual Haines Township Dutch Fall Festival on Oct. 1 and 2. This event is a combination of craft fair, folk festival, food, and yard sales, and went on in spite of cool, rainy weather during the weekend. Umbrella-toting shoppers were seen…