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Art and Preservation Need Your Help in Central PA
Besides being a civil rights activist, I am a strong supporter of historic preservation and the arts. So I’m putting on a different hat today to talk about a pending crisis in my home town that can be...
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Save Centre Crest: A Public Nursing Home and Long-Term Care Facility
Here in Centre County, we have a county-run nursing home facility. It is located in the county seat of Bellefonte, PA. Centre Crest Nursing Home in Bellefonte has been county-owned and operated for...
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Preservation: We’re Down to the Wire
Help Save the Garman Opera House On July 1, I posted a blog about a local historic theatre in Bellefonte, PA. At the beginning of August, Judge Kistler ordered the Bellefonte Industrial Development...
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Halloween Ode to the Garman Opera House
Happy Halloween readers! It’s a day of “Trick or Treating” or “Trunk or Treating” depending on where you live. In my case, a safe, historic town with lots of door-to-door trick or treaters. However,...
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Scrooge to Bellefonte: “Bah! Humbug!”
Streetscape next to the Centre County Courthouse once the Garman Opera House and Hotel DoDe are razed. Photo rendition by Mary Vollero Three days ago, Ara Kervandjian, in his capacity as head of PDG...
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Bellefonte’s Civil Rights Legacy
My town. Bellefonte. I’m proud of its legacy on civil rights. We were a significant part of the Underground Railroad in the 19th Century. Serge Bielanko posted an article about Martin Luther King and...
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