Motorcyclist injured in Route 150 crash

CENTRE HALL — With a bayonet in hand, Gerry Alexander, a first sergeant in a U.S. Civil War re-enactment group, proceeded to clear up a popular idea for the audience at Saturday’s Grange Family Festival.

STATE COLLEGE — Borough council Monday night is slated to take on an issue that has at least one commuter upset, a move to eliminate commuter parking in the 100 block of West Nittany Avenue.

CHIETI, Italy — Penn State sophomoreJulia Trogele recently competed with the Germany national team at the European Under-20 Women’s Championships.

BELLEFONTE — Bellefonte Family YMCA’s year-round child care program recently earned the highest possible rating from the state’s recognition system.

KARTHAUS — The hunting is always good in the northern part of Clearfield County. You can find anything. Deer. Elk. A mint-condition rare blue Depression glass candy dish.

State Rep. Scott Conklin, D-Rush Township, said Friday that he’s not calling for House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese to resign his leadership position — nor is the first-term lawmaker calling for DeWeese to keep it.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Remediation of abandoned mines and cleanup of acid mine drainage — or AMD — could have widespread economic impact, according to one study shared during the fourth West Branch Susquehanna Restoration Symposium on Friday.

Woman unhurt after tree falls on car

BELLEFONTE — Centre County voters will cast their ballots using pens and paper in the November election.

A woman climbed safely out of her car after a tree fell on it during a thunderstorm Thursday afternoon, Patton Township police said.

Three suspects were charged Thursday with being part of an alleged $2 million cocaine and heroin ring operating in the Lock Haven area and reaching into Centre County, according to state Attorney General Tom Corbett.

STATE COLLEGE — Their hands slimy with a liquid clay mixture, a group of students used spinning wheels on Thursday to turn lumps of clay into works of art.

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During this summer of high gasoline prices, many people are looking for opportunities to vacation close to home. The Keystone Trails Association, along with the Western Clinton Sportsmen’s Association, will offer people with a taste for outdoor sports a chance to get away from it all at the annual Prowl the Sproul weekend.

COLLEGE TOWNSHIP — A plan to build a new hotel in the swelling commercial network along Shiloh Road gained conditional approval from Township Council on Thursday.

A search for a missing Worth Township woman who has Alzheimer's disease ended after the woman was found with a relative in Bedford County, state police at Philipsburg reported this morning.

• Men waive hearing on fire-setting charges

• Theft alleged near Centre Hall yard sale

• 7 illegal immigrants arrested at traffic stop

We humans love round numbers. There’s something about the symmetry in our decimal system of numeral-ending fives and zeroes, so that when they come around, we tend to take notice.

STATE COLLEGE — Making one good meal can be a challenge for some, never mind 1 million.

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BOALSBURG — Amish workers from Aaronsburg were swinging hammers and wielding saws Wednesday as they began raising a barn behind the Boalsburg Heritage Museum.

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