Sitting in the third row, the two directors threw peanuts at the actors on stage. Those launched by teacher Marilyn Knoffsinger usually landed short, at the feet of the villain. Erin Royer, a 12th-grader at Bellefonte Area High School, had better aim, connecting a few body shots.

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BELLEFONTE -- Only the name will change immediately. As of Jan. 2, the Bellefonte Family YMCA and State College Area Family YMCA will merge and become the YMCA of Centre County, officers from both organizations announced Thursday in the Bellefonte facility's gym.

Labor Day weekend, the end of Grange Fair — those usually mean one thing to most Centre County parents, their children and teachers: the start of a new school year.

BELLEFONTE — A 9-year-old boy’s hunger for pizza led to a fire this morning that forced the evacuation of a four-unit apartment building in a residential section of town.

BELLEFONTE — Workers on Monday will begin repairing the bridge over the millrace in Bellefonte next to Tallyrand Park, the state Department of Transportation said Friday.

BELLEFONTE — Cars, trucks and motorcycles of every color and style lined the streets as the 20th annual Bellefonte Cruise drew crowds of families and car enthusiasts to town Saturday.

BELLEFONTE — Because of the Bellefonte Area High School graduation and the Bellefonte Cruise, traffic congestion is expected throughout the borough from 6 to 8 p.m. today.

Flags are being placed at cemeteries in preparation for Memorial Day.

Local law enforcement officers and community members gathered Thursday evening in front of the county courthouse in Bellefonte to honor police officers who died in the line of duty in 2007.

VIDEO:Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony

BELLEFONTE — William L. Hay, a 38-year-old software engineer at Raytheon, was appointed Thursday to be the borough’s newest councilman.

BELLEFONTE — Bellefonte Area High School students can finally meet the police officer who will have his own desk at their school.

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All over Pennsylvania, newspaper readers are coming up with ideas for good deeds -- the kind that will help their neighbors and friends.

From Bellefonte to Boston, Roger Greene is on the way for Centre Volunteers in Medicine.

Greene, the wellness coordinator at Restek Corp. in Bellefonte, next week will bicycle 518 miles, from the Restek offices near Bellefonte to Boston, as part of the 2008 Centre Volunteers in Medicine Challenge.

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BELLEFONTE — A Benner Township woman is charged with endangering her three girls — then-5-year-old twins and a 3-year-old — last year by barricading them in a bedroom and going out, leaving candles still burning inside the house.

Jay Allison’s “This I Believe” series, based on the 1950s radio program of the same name, has been a fixture on National Public Radio since April 2005.

BELLEFONTE — At the beginning of a three-year renovation of the Bellefonte Area High School in 2005, workers began an asbestos removal project and uncovered something unusual.

BELLEFONTE — Borough Councilman Don Holderman has been selected to become the new assistant borough manager, effective April 14.

Heavy rains that started Tuesday night swamped roads and basements in Centre County and prompted a boil water advisory on the University Park campus, but those dealing with the flooding said it wasn’t the worst they’ve seen.

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