Boalsburg News

Danielle Seifer knits flip top gloves during the Memorial Day celebration, in Boalsburg, May 28, 2012.

Thousands of people gathered in Boalsburg Monday to celebrate Memorial Day. Festivities honoring veterans and those defending America were going on all day.

In near perfect weather, Centre County natives took to the streets of Boalsburg to shop, listen to live music, and to remember the men and women who have served and continue to serve in the armed forces.

Today there will be jazz, a maypole dance, sidewalk sales, a pie baking contest, battle re-enactments and the 148th annual walk to Boalsburg Cemetery.

Boalsburg, the "Birthplace of Memorial Day" has a lot of plans Monday. It begins at 8:30 with the fun run.

Memorial Day is a time to pause and remember those who have served their country.

Margaret Tennis uses a rolling chair to glide between her binders, hand-drawn maps of village streets and fliers stacked on her dining room table - all of which helps her organize the vendors who will set up for Monday's Memorial Day celebration.

Hundreds of Centre County natives lined the streets of Boalsburg Saturday afternoon for the annual Boalsburg Memorial Day Weekend parade.

Meredith Snook, portraying Emma Hunter, pauses after placing flowers at a soldier's grave in Boalsburg Cemetery during the Memorial Day ceremony last year.

For more than 50 years, the annual Boalsburg Carnival has provided area residents with a Memorial Day weekend full of rides, games and food.

The family of Penn State football coach Bill O'Brien has adapted well to life in State College.

A Philadelphia-area couple has started a foster program to find temporary homes for the pets of servicemen and women during their deployment.

Gov. Tom Corbett was on hand for Sunday's tribute to the Pennsylvania National Guard's 28th Infantry Division in Boalsburg, the featured keynote speaker at the ceremony honoring the unit.

On Sunday, hundreds of people, including more than 90 National Guard facilities from across the state, will gather at the Pennsylvania Military Museum to honor Pennsylvania veterans.

The governor will be in Boalsburg today to honor the Pennsylvania National Guard, but his mind must also be on guarding the state's finances as our pension crisis deepens.

Governor Tom Corbett and senior leaders of the Pennsylvania National Guard today announced that they will honor the men and women of the Guard's 28th Infantry Division at an annual memorial service at 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 20, at the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Centre County.

A fire in the basement of the house at 6006 Eagle Valley Road in Huston Township caused smoke damage, but no injuries.

Happy Mother's Day to all of those special women we wouldn't be anywhere without.

Larry Emigh near his home in Boalsburg on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 will ride across the country to raise funds for the local Children's Dyslexia Center.

A Centre County fixture that was at risk of financial collapse will stay alive under new ownership.