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Extension offers group-based strength training program

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension is encouraging people to kick off the winter blues by attending an upcoming class designed to help adults improve their health and strength through an exercise program. The Lifelong Improvements through Fitness Together, or LIFT, class is held twice weekly in one-hour sessions, offered as a 12-week or eight-week in-person workshop at various locations from December 2025 through February 2026. An eight-week live virtual option, LIFTed, will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Jan. 13 through March 5, 2026. This class ...

US suicide rate fell in 2024 after hovering at high level

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. suicide rate dropped slightly last year from some of the highest levels ever reported, preliminary data suggests. Experts say it’s hard to know exactly why, or whether the decline will continue. A little over 48,800 suicide deaths were reported in 2024, according ...

Happenings from the Heisey

We have a wonderful day planned for Sunday, Dec. 14 from 12-5 p.m.! The Heisey House is decorated for the holidays and the ever-popular self-guided Holiday House tour of 10 properties is planned. Dogwood Circle Garden Club is again providing fresh and artificial arrangements as door prizes, so ...

Final supermoon of 2025 casts a blue hue in the December sky

NEW YORK (AP) — The last supermoon of the year shined in the December sky. The moon’s orbit around the Earth isn’t a perfect circle so it gets nearer and farther as it swings around. When a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit, a so-called supermoon happens. It makes the moon look ...