Politics-Local

BELLEFONTE — Unionized employees at the Centre County nursing home voted Wednesday for a contract, providing raises averaging 3 percent annually, that now awaits approval from county commissioners.

BELLEFONTE — Property owners will see their county real estate taxes increase by 2 mills — 30 percent — if county commissioners don't find places to cut from next year's budget.

FERGUSON TOWNSHIP — It's with a deep sigh that Stacy Parks Miller talks about the torn and weathered campaign signs flooding into her house as they were collected Wednesday.

PHILIPSBURG — Two candidates split a big write-in vote for Philipsburg Borough Council, erasing each other's chance to get more votes than any of the candidates on the ballot, unofficial returns showed Wednesday.

State College attorney Stacy Parks Miller swept to victory in the Centre County district attorney race Tuesday, capturing nearly two thirds of the vote to unseat incumbent Michael Madeira.

STATE COLLEGE — Democrat Elizabeth Goreham easily won the State College mayor's seat Tuesday, capturing more than 60 percent of the vote against 30 percent for Republican rival Joe Wakeley. Write-ins got 8 percent.

The chairman of District Attorney Michael Madeira's re-election campaign said Tuesday she wrote the message on a flier that says "groups like ACORN have registered 15,000 new Democrats in the State College area alone."

A Democratic incumbent and Republican newcomer, with opposing views on some issues, won the two supervisor seats in a competitive race in Harris Township, according to unofficial results.

The Centre County Republican Party over the weekend distributed campaign literature supporting District Attorney Michael Madeira that says "groups like ACORN have registered 15,000 new Democrats in the State College area alone."

BELLEFONTE — Only one of every three Centre County residents who went to the polls a year ago may end up voting Tuesday, but Howard resident Theresa Confer plans to be one of them.

BELLEFONTE — The two losing Democratic district attorney candidates in the spring primary election said Thursday they plan to vote for incumbent Republican Michael Madeira in Tuesday's general election.

BELLEFONTE — Democrat Stacy Parks Miller raised more money from more contributors than incumbent Republican Michael Madeira in the most recent campaign finance period in the race for Centre County district attorney, documents showed Friday.

The Centre Daily Times asked the two candidates for mayor of State College to respond in writing< to an identical set of five questions.

BELLEFONTE — Democrat Stacy Parks Miller says she decided to run for Centre County district attorney because she felt that cases are repeatedly mismanaged when they get before a jury.

Police officer associations in Ferguson, Patton and Spring townships have endorsed Michael Madeira for district attorney, according to organization officers and a prepared statement from Madeira.