Ron Madrid, the Director of the Office of Military and Security Programs at Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory, is running for mayor of State College. A former marine, Madrid looks to overcome partisan disagreement and devote attention to a potential two million dollar funding shortfall in the near future.
The Tuesday Farmers Market in downtown State College is one of the best places to get fresh produce, baked goods, and so much more.
My fellow State College Pumpkinheads, I have traveled far and wide in State College to complete my pumpkin quest. With Halloween only two weeks away, I compiled a list of everything that looks, smells, or tastes like pumpkin in the area.
The State College Police Department announced a new Twitter feed yesterday that it hopes will assist residents and students to reclaim missing or stolen bikes.
State College was ranked second in a MSN Real Estate post ranking the “10 cities where you want to walk to work.”
I went on a mission to find out all I could about State College's tattoo culture straight from the sources. I visited every shop in State College to talk with anyone who would give me the time of day to see how many people they've inked in Happy Valley, what kind of stuff makes them cringe, and whether they had any particularly good stories after working in a business that was born from the taboo.