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Nittany Ballet’s Annual Performance of ‘The Nutcracker’ Brings Fresh Perspectives, Enhancements
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The battle between a toy nutcracker and a giant mouse is stuff of legend in the dream-like world of “The Nutcracker.” And if you thought the holiday classic couldn’t get any more magical, the ballet returns to the Eisenhower Auditorium stage with new costumes, fresh perspectives and more dancers. “Audiences will also notice new choreography…
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Penn State School of Music Students Share the Spotlight in Holiday ‘Mosaic’ Concert
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The Penn State School of Music will hold its annual “Mosaic” concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, in Eisenhower Auditorium. The production highlights the school’s student talent in a one-of-a-kind showcase featuring a variety of seasonal songs. Tickets are $37 for adults and $14 for students if purchased online. Patrons can avoid the $4…
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Centre County Residents Hit by Phone Scams
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Centre County Sheriff Bryan Sampsel said that in the latest round of calls scammers are pretending to be deputies from his office, using spoofed phone numbers and real names they have scraped from public sources.
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Model Railroad Club: Not Your Grandpa’s Trains
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Members of Penn State’s Model Railroad Club grow career skills while they “play with trains.”
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‘A Family Experience.’ State College Area Christmas Tree Shop Celebrates 40 Years of Spreading Holiday Joy
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For four decades, families across Centre County have bundled up and made their way to the Cannizzaro Christmas Tree Shoppe, a small, family-run operation tucked beside Meyer Dairy that has become a generational holiday tradition in State College. This year marks the shop’s 40th anniversary, and for the Cannizzaro family, who took over the business…
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Arboretum at Penn State Donates Record Produce Harvest to State College Food Bank
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Throughout this year’s growing season, volunteers and staff worked to plant, cultivate and harvest a wide variety of produce in the gardens of The Arboretum at Penn State. Those efforts wrapped up the week before Thanksgiving break with one final delivery of kale and a few other vegetables, resulting in a record-breaking 2,872 pounds of produce…
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Local Jersey Mike’s Franchisee Acquires Former Rite Aid Building in Bellefonte
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The owner of three Centre County Jersey Mike’s Subs locations recently acquired a Bellefonte property that has been vacant for nearly two years. Cedar Cliff Properties LLC, which has been used by the sandwich shop chain’s local franchisees Matt and Christie Patterson to develop Jersey Mike’s locations, purchased the former Rite Aid property at 821…
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New Charges Filed Against Men Accused in Centre County Teen Sex Abuse Case
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State police at Rockview on Wednesday filed a long list of new charges, including human trafficking, against the three men accused of sexually abusing teenage girls and recording the encounters inside a Centre County home. The new charges come as investigators have spent the days after the arrests of Samuel C. Friday, Michael H. Woomer…
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Letters: Penn State Cancer Institute’s Failed Leadership; Stand Up for Community by Supporting WPSU
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Vindication tastes bitter when it comes at such a cost, but the record must now show: every alarm I sounded was justified. On Thursday, Nov. 20, Spotlight PA exposed a damning internal review of the Penn State Cancer Institute: chemotherapy overdoses, treatment delays that let cancers spread unchecked, incomplete patient records, and a toxic workplace…
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