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Windmill Windfall to Fund Hoagie Happening

June 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Turn On. Tune Onion. Drop out. 
Some towns are built on factories. Some are built on agriculture. No one doubts that without the hoagie, Tyrone would be a mere tasteless, hold-the-onions blip on the map.
Recognizing that, Tyrone Borough Council, in cooperation with their corporate overlords, Gamesa, will channel funds from the proposed industrial windfarm into “A […]

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Tags: Finance · Food · Tyrone · Windmills

State College Parents Demand Grand Stand

May 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Artists rendering… Mmmm… Renderin’s. 

State College School Board faced the wrath of hundreds of parents who were upset at the price tag of the new concession stand project.
“A quarter of a millions dollars?” said G. Franklin Uppercoat, spokesperson for State College Parents for Exclusivity. “I have seen affordable housing units in State College that cost more […]

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Tags: Finance · Food · State College

Worst Economy Since Depression Continues to Grow

May 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Media on Economy: Recession. Depression. Please advertise!  
Economists received gloomy news last week that the worst economy since the depression grew by over a half percent.
“At this rate I’ll be dead before most of humanity is killed and the rest of us are forced to endure a hand-to-mouth existence as subsistence farmers and mastodon hunters,” Malbert Crickendale, […]

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Tags: Finance