Centre Helps, Centre County’s crisis and emotional support call center, took 10,000 calls in 2016. But for her whole life, executive director Bonnie Tatterson has been answering her own call — to help others in whatever way she could. More...

I look out my kitchen window on an early summer day and see the sun shining on a field of possibility. I turn toward my 13-year-old son. He is staring at his screen. More...

Ever since I first heard tell of Mount Brandon, which rises magnificently 3,127 feet from Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula, I’ve been more or less obsessed with summiting it. More...

Eric Ian Farmer moved back to State College eight years ago and enrolled in a doctoral program at Penn State. Now, he’s completed his Ph.D. More...

Last year the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania gave the state’s wine lovers a gift. That’s when the long-established (euphemism for antiquated!) liquor laws changed, allowing for direct-to-consumer shipments of wine. More...

Ann Kusnadi, a petite woman who smiles big, leads me through a cloud of butter and sugar into her certified kitchen. More...

Q: For the holidays, we’re flying to visit our family in California. On long flights, my feet always swell up and remain uncomfortable for at least a day. What’s the best way to avoid this? More...

More than 200 guests attended Centre Foundation’s Annual Dinner on Nov. 1 at The Nittany Lion Inn. More...

With winter weather fast descending on our valley, now is the time to try new authors and explore new worlds. Because you’ve heard from me so often in the past year, I thought I’d hit up some other librarians here at Schlow for a title or two. More...

Tony Lentz grew up in Stony Point, North Carolina, a small town about an hour north of Charlotte with a population of no more than 1,400 people. More...