Mention Penn State to anyone anywhere, and the first thing that’s likely to come up is football. But Penn State is also home to a myriad of other competitive sports. and it just so happens that, locally, we latched on—from a very early age—to Penn State men’s basketball.
New Years Eve plans made easy! First Night is a New’s Year’s Eve event that offers ice sculptures, musical performances, carriage rides, ice skating, craft-making, a 5k race, improv, puppet shows, and the infamous ice slide.
My experience as a student who struggled in school led me to long for an alternative path—both as a student and, ultimately, as a teacher. We are fortunate to have more than one option for our students here in State College.
As my wife and I enter the empty-nest stage, we are starting to reminisce about what it was like raising our two children in the State College area.
Local educator and writer David Rockower shares his full circle experience growing up and then raising kids in State College's Holmes Foster neighborhood.
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