Vincent Corso
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Centre County Recognizes National Recovery Month
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The Centre County Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education (HOPE) Initiative held a candlelight Remembrance Ceremony on International Overdose Awareness Day in front of the Centre County Courthouse on Tuesday to remember community members who have been lost to overdose. During the event, the courthouse was illuminated in purple, which is the recovery movements’ official…
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Former DA Parks Miller Granted Reinstatement of Law License
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Former Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller can again practice law. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has granted Parks Miller reinstatement after a suspension that lasted more than two years. Parks Miller’s law license was suspended on Feb. 8, 2019, by the state Supreme Court for a period of one…
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State College Area Meals on Wheels Celebrates a Half Century of Service
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Since 1971, State College Area Meals on Wheels has been working to provide freshly prepared meals to seniors and other homebound individuals. During a celebration on Aug. 16, Board President Sharon Ambrose put the 50-year anniversary in perspective. “To think that we have current Meals on Wheels clients who were students at Penn State when…
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Oktoberfest Event Coming to Grange Park
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Get your lederhosen ready because the Central PA Tasting Trail is holding its first-ever Oktoberfest celebration at Grange Park in Centre Hall on Oct. 16. The event will include fun activities for everyone, with food, music and, since it just wouldn’t be Oktoberfest without it, beer. The Central PA Tasting Trail, which is organizing the…
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Happy Valley Nomadic Spirits Is Helping Customers Make Craft Cocktails from the Comfort of Home
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Over this past year and a half many people have found the great pleasure of making themselves a nice craft cocktail and enjoying it in the comfort of their own home. The problem is that some of us, myself included, don’t really know where to start when it comes mixology. I don’t know why sometimes…
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Harvest Fields Community Trails Offers an Escape for Novice and Experienced Cyclists Alike
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If you spend a lot of time out on the trails of central Pennsylvania like I do, you are bound to come across many a mountain biker. Rothrock State Forest has become a hotspot for the sport, drawing people from all over the state and beyond to our rough and rocky trails. It amazing to…
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Moving Up in the World: Luxury High-Rise Apartments Are Changing the College Experience
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Everywhere you look, high-rise luxury student apartment buildings seem to be sprouting up in downtown State College, soaring up to the sky, changing the feel of the old college town. The one-word names of these goliath buildings seem to encompass what they are all about. From The Metropolitan, The Rise, HERE and The Standard, these…
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CATA Service Changes to Begin on Saturday
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Centre Area Transportation Authority services changes brought about by the impact of the pandemic will go into effect Saturday, Aug. 21. The changes include some route alterations and reductions, a fair increase for CATARIDE and the expansion of CATAGO — a pilot on-demand ride-service program that serves Bellefonte and Pleasant Gap — to Boalsburg. The…
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County Commissioners Discuss Development Projects
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Centre County just keeps on growing, and there was proof of that during the Aug. 10 county board meeting, as the commissioners heard plans on five projects that are in the works throughout the county. The projects discussed by county subdivision and land development planner Christopher Schnure include a Dollar General in Aaronsburg, two housing…
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PennDOT Determining Next Steps After Hawbaker Plea
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is determining how to move forward after one of its biggest contractor’s over the past two decades, State College-based Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc., pleaded no contest and accepted a plea agreement related to wage theft charges brought by the state Attorney General’s Office. PennDOT temporarily suspended the company from bidding…