Sam Stitzer

The Bellefonte Community Band, a group of more than 50 volunteer musicians of all ages from Bellefonte and the surrounding communities, will present a concert saluting the Golden Age of Bands at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 13, in the Esber Recital Hall.

SPRING MILLS — The Penns Valley High School Thespians will present the musical “Mary Poppins” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 4, and Saturday, March 5, in the school’s auditorium. The musical is being directed by Penns Valley band director Darris DeRemer. Phil Stattel directs the pit orchestra, which is composed of both student…

Nearly 400 middle and high school technology education students from five central Pennsylvania counties attended the Pennsylvania Technology Student Association’s regional conference, held Feb. 13 at Penns Valley High School.

SPRING MILLS — The 45th annual Klondike Derby was held at the Seven Mountains Boy Scout Camp in Potter Township Feb. 6. About 426 Scouts from many locations in Pennsylvania and Maryland brought 78 teams to compete in this year’s derby. This event is a competition between Boy Scout patrols, which pull dog…

STATE COLLEGE — The 16th annual Kards for Kids charity poker tournament was held Jan. 30 in the atrium of the Ramada Inn in State College. The event benefited four local organizations: Centre County YMCAs, Centre County Youth Services Bureau, Boy Scouts of America and Kid-Tech, an organization that aims to encourage and enable…

BOALSBURG — Members of Cub Scout Pack 380 in Boalsburg assembled Jared Boxes during the pack’s Jan. 21 meeting at the Harris Township Lions Club building. A Jared Box is a plastic storage box filled with small toys, games, books, crayons, puzzles and other fun activities for children. Each box contains items selected…

Nearly everyone in Centre County is familiar with the historic round barn along Route 45, west of Centre Hall. This picturesque, bright red structure, built by carpenter Aaron Thomas in 1910 for Calvin Neff, has been the subject of countless photographs, paintings and admiring glances by passersby. Probably far fewer people are aware that…

SPRING MILLS — On Jan. 10, Abraham Allebach, of Spring Mills, was inducted into the Pennsylvania Farm Show Draft Horse Hall of Fame during the 100th annual Farm Show in Harrisburg. Allebach and his family own and operate Windermere Farms, located at 3971 Brush Valley Road in Gregg Township, where they breed, raise and train…

MILLHEIM — Millheim resident Ralph Gray, a retired Penns Valley High School mathematics teacher, is putting the finishing touches on his second book in as many years. His new offering, “The School on the Hill,” tells the nearly 200-year history of the Bellefonte Academy, a prestigious prep school located in Bellefonte. Gray derived…

The dawning of a new year spawns a dichotomy of simultaneously looking forward and backwards in time. We embrace the promises of the future, and we relive memorable times of the past. New Year’s Day is typically a rather laid back holiday. Around here, we eat pork and sauerkraut, watch the Rose Parade…