The nation’s largest electricity grid operator has called on power plant operators, investors, utilities and consumers to consider reforms to ensure the region’s wholesale electricity market can supply enough power as it faces unprecedented demand from data centers. PJM Interconnection, ...
LOCK HAVEN — A staple community event managed to provide quality, all-you-can-eat breakfast for over 500 people, all for a good cause. The Sentimental Journey hosted its pancake breakfast on Sunday, May 3, inside the hangar at the William T. Piper Memorial Airport. With a large team ...
BELLEFONTE — More than 5 million visitors travel to Centre County each year, fueling a billion-dollar tourism economy — and straining the local services that support it. Officials in State College and consulting firm Allegheny Strategy Partners are now seeking ways for municipalities to recoup those costs. On Monday, Mike Negra, of Allegheny Strategy Partners, asked Bellefonte Borough Council to join the growing coalition behind the Regional Local Government Revenue Innovation & Sustainability Plan. For three years, Allegheny Strategy Partners has worked with State College ...
MILL HALL — The Lamar Township Supervisors and local police offered their thanks and appreciation for emergency responders, township staff and volunteers who came together following the tragic house fire along East End Mountain Road in April. During the supervisors’ May meeting, they along with Mill Hall Borough Police Chief Brandon Coleman — whose department provides police coverage for the township — thanked Supervisor Dan Chappell for his role in ensuring the safety and respect for those who attended the funeral for Sarah Stoltzfus and her six children, who lost their lives ...
A Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission proposal to reroute the cross-state highway by blasting a 1,000-foot-wide cut through Allegheny Mountain faces opposition from Somerset County leaders, who say it would disrupt a pristine wilderness and permanently scar the landscape. The twin-tube ...
HARRISBURG — In February, Lehigh County Commissioner Ron Beitler made a decision that he described as a “political suicide” — he left the GOP and chose not to affiliate with any political party. There was no single inciting incident. Beitler has always considered himself to be politically fluid, he told Spotlight PA. While Lehigh County leans Democratic — 44% of voters are registered Democrats and 36% are registered Republicans — Beitler describes his district as “pretty Republican.” He ultimately decided that going independent would help him better communicate with ...
