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At the very top of Mount Nittany Road is an old house partially enveloped in overgrown plants and wrapped in ivy. Outside the house, near the Mount Nittany trailhead, there
After months of discussions, reviews and adjustments, College Township Council on Thursday unanimously approved, with conditions, plans for a two-building student housing complex on the site of the former Hilltop Mobile Home Park. Pending completion of the conditions, Texas-based student housing developer Aspen Heights Partners plans to begin construction this summer on the property along the west side of Squirrel Drive and south of East College Avenue. “I hope everybody who’s been following along really appreciated the diligence that I felt we and staff and the developer and everybody i...
1:21 College Township in Centre County unanimously passed an ordinance Thursday night on residential chickens, making it possible to own the farm animals as pets. The fight for backyard chickens began last July when 10-year-old Maeve Elliot began raising hens during the pandemic. The Elliot family bought the pets without knowing they weren’t allowed. The previous ordinance restricted farm animals from residential properties less than 10 acres. Maeve said the hens have been good for her mental health. “Chickens may not seem like much, but they meant a lot to me. They are not just food, t...
Maeve Elliott began raising her four pet hens — Purple, Banana, Waffles and El — at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, when her parents, Nathan and Jackie, acquired them to help give their daughter some companionship and structure during a time lockdowns and distancing. Maeve’s “side-eye queens” have given the family “a wonderful learning experience, lots of laughs and the best fresh eggs that we’ve ever had,” Jackie Elliott said during a public hearing prior to council’s vote on Thursday. They were under the impression the hens were permitted in the township, u...