Spring Mills News

The Centre County League American All-Stars defeated the National squad 10-5 Sunday in the the league's All- Star Game.

Fred Metzger, left, and Nell Hanssen talk while walking along the boardwalk of the Muddy Paws Marsh Wetlands Education Center with Lazer, a stray dog Metzger is hoping to see adopted.

A Spring Mills woman struck by a car while walking her dog in Potter Township Thusday evening was in serious condition at Geisinger Medical Center after undergoing surgery Friday, according to a hospital ...

A Spring Mills man has been charged with misdemeanor simple assault after state police at Rockview said he punched a woman Friday.

Two old Centre County bridges - one relied on by thousands of commuters and the other virtually unknown under downtown Bellefonte - went in for replacement and repair Monday.

Long-awaited work to replace the state Route 45 bridge over Penns Creek in Spring Mills will begin Monday, the Department of Transportation announced.

A Franklin motorcyclist was injured in an accident at 1:20 p.m. Friday along Route 417 in Oakland Township, Venango County.

A 6- year-old boy was killed Tuesday afternoon when his head became stuck in farm machinery as he helped his father wrap bales of hay, according to state police at Rockview.

Authorities say a 6-year-old Amish boy has been killed in a Centre County farm accident.

A Penn State student who police said threatened a professor over a grade of B-waived charges of terroristic threats and harassment on to Centre County Court for trial Wednesday prior to a scheduled preliminary ...

“Nobody can tell whether my vote was counted, and I find that”

Touch-screen voting machine critics took up most of a two-hour public meeting Wednesday night, urging the Centre County Board of Commissioners to switch to paper ballots. via Centre Daily Times

“I don't think he had any real intention of shooting me.”

BELLEFONTE -- Never mess with a man called 'Pickle.'

In December, 21-year-old Peter Allen Jackson, of Sand Mountain Road in Spring Mills, held up Vernon 'Pickle' Jodon at Jodon's Country Place only to have the 60-year-old store owner chase him down, first by vehicle and then on foot.

On Monday, the man who was hauled back to stunned state police in the back of Jodon's pickup truck in December was sentenced by Centre County Judge Bradley P. Lunsford to serve four and a half to nine years in state prison for a guilty plea to armed robbery. Read more

Drama fans from across the county can climb aboard with the State College Thespians' performance of "Anything Goes" starting tonight and see Philipsburg-Osceola students perform the stage version of the popular ... via Centre Daily Times

“People who are working families, just barely making it and already paying higher prices for gas and home heating oil, are going to be shot in the pocket by higher food prices”

Dale Rossman climbs into his combine while harvesting corn on his farm in Spring Mills, Pa. via SavannahNow

“Everybody is anxious, us included.”

As spring planting nears, farmers are making a choice that could affect what Americans pay for everything from car fuel to chicken wings. via Times Leader

“At stores in PA with the same coupon policy (doubling to a max of $1), the number of coupons redeemed is about twice what we see at State College, ”

For retailers, coupons help draw shoppers into the store and keep them coming back. For consumers, it's a way to stretch a budget, and a number of Centre County shoppers take advantage of discounts available to them.

'The coupons that are still available are used heavily,' said Jesse Burkholder, owner of Burkholder's Country Market near Millheim.

He said more manufacturers are providing discounts electronically for stores that utilize shopper discount cards, and cutting back on printed coupons. Read more

Fly and spinner anglers will benefit from Wednesday's stocking of the Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures Only section of Pine Creek in Allison Park. via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“The newer section of Talleyrand Park has some standing water areas”

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 ... via Centre Daily Times

A Spring Mills man escaped injury Saturday night after a one-vehicle crash on state Route 45 in Potter Township. via Centre Daily Times

Snow, sleet and freezing rain prompted the cancellation of 19 blood drives in February, which has left American Red Cross blood collections in the Greater Alleghenies Region running almost 10 percent below projections.

Red Cross officials on Monday issued a plea for blood donors to come out to one of the remaining drives scheduled this month.

In addition to canceled blood drives, the winter weather has kept donor turnout low, said Jim Starr, CEO of the Greater Alleghenies Region, in a news release. Read more