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A Connection to Our Community and Personal Histories
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As I looked from headstone to headstone I felt a number of different emotions – astonishment, sadness, awe, surprise, wonder, intrigue.
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Indiana, Indiana, Indiana: 10 Ways Penn State Football Can Win This Week
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With its 2020 football season-opener finally almost upon us, here are 10 ways the Nittany Lions and Penn State can win on and off the field.
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Opinion: Joe Biden Is a Man of Light in a Time of Darkness
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What I’ve written here represents my thoughts and not that of this site. Certainly, some people will disagree with me, and I’m self-aware enough to know my thoughts or vote carry no more weight or importance than anyone else’s. But in this time in our history I felt compelled to speak up. …
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A Letter from Uncle Sam to Our Young Century
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Dear 21st Century, What the heck? You’ve been nothing but trouble from the day you were born, and now that you’ve left your teens and might be expected to show a little maturity, you’re wreaking havoc on an even more terrible scale.
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Experience the Beauty of Fall in Centre County
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or those of you who make Centre County your home, how beautiful is this time of year? This is the favorite season for many local residents and thousands of Penn State alums and visitors who would normally flock here for the vibrant colors, the cooler temperatures, the lower humidity, and of course,
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Hunting Strategies Have Changed Going into 2020
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“Pick a good spot, keep still and stay there.” That was my dad’s deer hunting philosophy and it was a very rare year when he did not get a deer — usually a buck. For most of my 50-plus-year hunting career, it has been my motto, too. While I do not consider myself an…
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Some Pandemic Etiquette for Our Walks and Runs
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In an effort to make it easier for all of us to make it through this depression, I want to propose some etiquette rules for those of us getting exercise on the sidewalks and bike paths.
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Fall Hunting Seasons Again Filled with Many Changes
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The autumn foliage color change has started early, and the first fall hunting seasons are underway. Dove season and resident Canada goose season began Sept. 1. Squirrel season started more than a month early this year — on Sept. 12, as compared to last year’s Oct. 19 beginning.
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3 Leadership Lessons from a Quiet Man
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In times like these, we should recall those for whom leadership was a call to service and not a self-serving position to bellow boisterous, bogus bravado. One man that is often overlooked is General and President Dwight Eisenhower. For 2020 there are three elemental Eisenhower lessons that we’d do
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Among the Luftmenschen
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I think it was my mother who, seeing I had no head for business, law, medicine, or any practical pursuit whatsoever, first sized me up as a luftmensch, a person with his head in the clouds. The type who is more likely to become a Ph.D. than a CEO.