Real estate

MONDAY

Walking softly across the hallowed ground where thousands of soldiers died, one quickly understands the words President Abraham Lincoln used to pay tribute to those who fought the Battle of Gettysburg. He was right when he said the world

Tower Bancorp joins Russell 3000

BENNER TOWNSHIP — The proposal to construct a 2,000-inmate state prison in Benner Township drew the ire of local contractors and politicians Monday after an announcement that the state will use project labor agreements when contracting with builders.

UNIVERSITY PARK — In September, the bottom was dropping out of the nation’s financial markets. The nation posted eight months of job losses and the public-at-large awoke to the fact that a recession was under way.

When President Barack Obama spoke Monday in Chicago of the need to reform health care, and in Wisconsin last week, he cited one local organization as an example the nation should follow.

Health care

Dr. Sady M. Ribeiro, medical director of the Pain Management Clinic at Mount Nittany Medical Center, has recently been selected a Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice by the World Institute of Pain.

MONDAY

Kiwanis Club of State College,

5:45 p.m., Ramada Inn, 1450 S. Atherton St., State College, 237-4089.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan was president, the Apple Macintosh had just been introduced and the VHS cassette was beginning to extend its dominance over Beta in the VCR format wars.

• Tower Bancorp added to bank index

• Trout Unlimited receives funds

On Friday, the last of the analog television transmissions will go off the air forever as the nation completes the transition to the new digital transmission guidelines.

• Architects lauded for school project

• Cleveland Bros. adds Peterson products

• Bedding company outfits transport ship

• Giant Foods lowers prices

UNIVERSITY PARK — Job hunters often are concerned about what potential employers will see on social networking sites, but now there is a new worry: What if you are already hired?

ARCHITECTURE

Randy Hudson, managing partner for Hayes Large Architects’ State College office, recently conducted an educational session for school board members and administrators at the Pennsylvania School Board Association’s School Design and Construction Summit in Philadelphia entitled “Lessons Learned from the First Generation of Green Schools.”

MONDAY

Kiwanis Club of State College, 5:45 p.m., Ramada Inn, 1450 S. Atherton St., State College, 237-4089.

In Walker Township, a small family farm is nearing century status.

LAW

State Sen. Jake Corman, R-Benner Township, and the Centre County Industrial Development Corp. (a part of the Chamber of Business and Industry of Centre County) are giving a state land transfer in Benner Township another go with Senate Bill 862.