Community
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Big Spring Spirits Partners with Scholar Hotel in State College
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Bellefonte’s Big Spring Spirits is bringing its craft beverages to downtown State College. The distillery is partnering with Scholar Hotel, 205 E. Beaver Ave., to offer its full line of spirits at Social Food + Drink, the restaurant and bar inside the hotel at the historic Glennland Building. Social Food + Drink has recently undergone…
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Tunes and Traditions at the Grange Fair
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Musical performances are a staple of the Centre County Grange Fair. To celebrate 150 years of tunes and traditions, this year’s fair has a lineup of impressive performers.
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Passing the Crown: Teaghan Bair Reflects on Her Year as Centre County Grange Fair Queen
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CENTRE HALL — As the Centre County Grange Fair celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, Teaghan Bair, the 2023 fair queen, reflected on her Grange Fair journey before passing off the crown and setting the stage for another year of tradition and community spirit. Bair, a Centre Hall native, has been attending the fair her…
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Grange Fair: Centre County’s Family Reunion
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The Centre County Grange Encampment and Fair celebrates 150 years Aug. 16-24, 2024.
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The Bittersweet End of Summer
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We’ve hit the midway mark of August; summer is drawing to a close. The end of summer is part of the natural order, and with it begins the annual migration of kids returning to college. When your kids have grown up and they’re off to college or they’re living elsewhere, those nights when you go…
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SCASD Board Approves Music Program to Enhance Student Engagement and Community
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The State College Area School District Board of Directors, during a meeting on Monday, Aug. 5, unanimously approved a year-long partnership between Malik McPherson, a musician and educator, and Easterly Parkway Elementary School for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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Nittany Valley Symphony Names New Executive Director
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The board of the Nittany Valley Symphony has named a new executive director for the community orchestra. Gabriel Herrera succeeds Roberta Strebel, who is retiring after 17 years in the role. “We are excited to begin working with Gabriel Herrera,” board President Lisa Schroeder said. “People in this area may know him as an outstanding…
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Crop Art Featured at Ag Progress Days
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A heralded crop artist has brought a new touch to Ag Progress Days this week, and there are some special opportunities to get a bird’s-eye view of it. Artist Stan Herd’s 2-acre installation is inspired by environmentalist, farmer and poet Wendell Berry’s poem “Below.” It features the words “We Stand for What We Stand On”…
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In Local Author’s Thriller, a Small Town Reporter Uncovers Big Trouble
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Cynthia Simmons spent the early part of her career working as a reporter for small newspapers and radio stations. Now an instructor of media law in Penn State’s Bellisario College of Communications, she has drawn on those early experiences to write her first novel, “Wrong Kind of Paper.”