StateCollege.com Staff
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Lunch with Mimi: Jana Marie Foundation’s Marisa Vicere
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Marisa Vicere founded and became president of the Jana Marie Foundation in 2012 after losing her sister, Jana Vicere, to suicide in 2011. The foundation is committed to helping young people navigate through the tough transitional teen years as well as educating parents and community members about me
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A Salute to Volunteers
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April is National Volunteer Month, and within that is National Volunteer Week (this year it’s April 23-29). For the second consecutive year, Town&Gown spent time at a few nonprofits where much of the work is done by volunteers, who give of their time to help causes, groups, events, and more withou
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Taste of the Month: The Tavern Restaurant
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For almost 70 years now, The Tavern Restaurant, located at 220 East College Avenue in State College, has been a Penn State tradition. The walls are a treasury of Pennsylvania and Penn State history, highlighting old photographs and rare lithographs. Originally opened in 1948 by two Penn State graduates John O’Connor (1938) and Ralph Yeager…
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Lunch with Mimi: Marisa Vicere
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Marisa Vicere founded and became president of the Jana Marie Foundation in 2012 after losing her sister, Jana Vicere, to suicide in 2011. The foundation is committed to helping young people navigate through the tough transitional teen years as well as educating parents and community members about mental and emotional health. The Jana Marie Foundation…
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A Salute to Volunteers
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April is National Volunteer Month, and within that is National Volunteer Week (this year it’s April 23-29). According to Points of Light, which organizes National Volunteer Week, the week is “an opportunity to recognize and thank volunteers who lend their time, talent, voice, and support to causes they care about in their community.” For the…
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Lunch with Mimi: Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
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Immigration has become more of a hot topic this year, especially with some of the actions taken by President Trump, than previous ones. Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia believes it’s time for comprehensive immigration reform. As an expert on immigration law and one of the nation’s leading scholars on the role of prosecutorial…
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Taste of the Month: Tommy’s Asian Grill
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Tommy’s Asian Grill, located at 432 East College Avenue, is State College’s first Xi’an Chinese restaurant serving authentic, fresh, hand-stretched noodles, handmade flat breads for Chinese burgers, and traditional Xi’an BBQ on a stick. With the ever-growing Chinese student population at Penn State, a New York City lawyer and his business partner saw a need…
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Lunch with Mimi: ClearWater Conservancy’s Deborah Nardone
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Town&Gown founder Mimi Barash Coppersmith sat down with ClearWater Conservancy Executive Director Deborah Nardone to discuss the projects that ClearWater Conservancy has planned for 2017 and how the community can help preserve the natural beauty of this area.
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Taste of the Month: Rusty Rail Brewing Company
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Opened in 2015, the Rusty Rail Brewing Company is a 15-barrel (450 gallon) brew house that produces up to 8,000 barrels of beer per year. Equipped with a 12-spout GAI rotary bottling system, the brewery also has the ability to fill 3,000 bottles per hour.
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Lunch with Mimi: Deborah Nardone
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With 20 years of experience in the field of natural conservation with local, state, and national organizations, Deborah Nardone was named executive director of ClearWater Conservancy in September 2015. Since her arrival, she has been an integral part of the organization’s mission for land preservation and conservation in Centre County. In 2016, ClearWater embarked on…