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Enter the grounds of Nittany Mall and you might be struck by the sheer emptiness of it all. Especially to those of us who grew up going to shiny shopping

We spend a lot of ink (and digital electrons) on all the wrongs that a suburban-dominated state government has inflicted on rural Virginia. How the legislature has repeatedly killed all attempts to ease the disparities between schools in the state’s most affluent regions and its poorest ones. How the legislature saw fit to abolish the coal tax credit but offered the coal counties nothing in return except the promise of an economic study. How Gov. Ralph Northam proposed as a candidate to tu...

Social media trends that are here to stay in 2021 Details This post is sponsored by 8traordinary. People have been turning to social media more than ever to connect. In the past year or so, there was a 10.5% increase in the total number of social media users throughout the world, which now makes up more than half of the entire world’s population. It has even been reported there are 12 new users on social media every second. All things considered, it only makes se...

Shelli Parker Biomerics Manufacturing officials welcomed Athens leaders to a groundbreaking on a new phase of construction on their property at Athens Industrial Park on Friday. Travis Sessions, CEO of Biomerics, said he drove in from the company headquarters in Salt Lake City to be part of the event. "Athens is like this little, second place we go to that we just have that warm feeling for," Sessions said. Sessions said the expansion will be a $3 million investment to add on to what had alread...

Lebanon Fire and Police were called to Goodwill this morning on a bomb scare after someone donated a grenade.

U.S. SENATE - Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.), U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.), Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced Monday via press release that they will introduce bipartisan legislation to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to veterans and their families under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The Senators’ Strengthening and Amplifying Vaccinat...

BERLIN — Brookfield Renewable Energy met with the planning board last week in a conceptual review of its proposed battery storage project. Brookfield has an option on 3.8 acres of city land behind the district courthouse on Main Street where it is planning to install a 14-megawatt battery storage project. Outlining the layout, Don Bouchard of Horizons Engineering said the site is east of the railroad and near two of Brookfield’s hydroelectric plants as well as electric transmission li...

The normally smooth process of selling bits and pieces of property after no taxes have been paid on it ran into a few bumps at the March 2 meeting of the Gila County Board of Supervisors. The property is West Grace Lane, off North McLane Road in Payson, and the total lien amount on this parcel is $3,708. Cynthia and Andy Romance submitted a sealed bid for the property with the understanding they would be responsible for the road’s maintenance as several other property owners use it. The bi...

Preferred Commerce, Inc.: Top Branding Expert Joins Preferred Commerce Rowland Hanson to Its Board of Directors WELLINGTON, FL / ACCESSWIRE / March 9, 2021 / Preferred Commerce, Inc. (OTC PINK:OCBM) is pleased to announce that marketing icon, Rowland Hanson, has been appointed to the Companys Board of Directors. From Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft toexecutive tenures with General Mills, Nestle, and Neutrogena, Mr. Hanson has developed and led successful marketing strate...

After arriving in State College in 2017, Keeta Davis felt like there was something missing from the community — “soul food.” Keeta’s Kitchen doesn’t have a physical restaurant location in State College, but is instead completely run out of Davis’s (junior-hospitality management) apartment. Davis has continued to run her business through the pandemic while balancing her classwork to bring Black recipes to the community. “The motivation came from the lack of sou...