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Plan calls for a mini-casino
at former Macy’s site at mall
BY BRET PALLOTTO
bpallotto@centredaily.com
A $120 million mini-casino
plans to open at the former
Macy’s in the Nittany Mall,
potentially creating dozens of
family-sustaining jobs and gen-
erating significant revenue for
College Township.
Members of the 3/20 Coalition held a “die-in” Thursday outside the Centre County Courthouse Annex. The 3/20 Coalition wants District
Attorney Bernie Cantorna to resign after they say he mishandled the Osaze Osagie investigation.
Group stages ‘die-in’ for
recusal, resignation of DA
over Osagie case handling
BY JOSH MOYER
jmoyer@centredaily.com
BELLEFONTE
A small contingent of the
3/20 Coalition staged a “die-in”
outside the Centre County
Courthouse Annex on Thursday,
calling for the recusal or resig-
nation of the local district at-
torney responsible for clearing
police in the 2019 shooting
death of a local Black man.
A half-dozen members spraw-
led out on the sidewalk while a
seventh outlined their bodies
with chalk, an act typically asso-
ciated with homicide investiga-
tions. One of the goals of the
group, named after the date that
29-year-old Osaze Osagie was
killed, was to push for an inde-
pendent investigation after news
recently surfaced regarding the
questionable past of the State
College officer who pulled the
trigger.
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The casino plans to offer up to
750 slots machines, 30 table
games, a sportsbook, a restau-
rant and entertainment facil-
ities, according to a letter
shared by College Township.
“This is something that Col-
lege Township has been looking
to achieve for some time and,
obviously, anything that can
bring activity to the Nittany
Melanie Morrison holds a “Justice for Osaze” poster as fellow
members of the 3/20 Coalition lie on the sidewalk Thursday in front
of the Centre County Courthouse Annex.
“At the end of the day, we’re
just fighting for Osaze Osagie,”
organizer Robin Moussa said.
“This is just one more tactic.”
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Mall will be helpful since it’s
obviously a shopping center that
has come under tremendous
challenges lately,” state Senate
President Pro Tempore Jake
Corman, R-Benner Township,
said Wednesday. “This is good
news; this is what College
Township wanted. Hopefully, as
we’ve found in other parts of the
state, these have been nice des-
ABBY DREY adrey@centredaily.com
could prove difficult, however.
County DA Bernie Cantorna
cleared three officers in 2019 of
wrongdoing based on an in-
vestigation performed by state
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“If I Ran a Zoo” is among six Dr.
tinations for social activities and Seuss books that will no longer
will hopefully add another be published by Dr. Seuss
amenity to the county.” Enterprises.
Penn State alum Ira Lubert
and Bally’s Corporation sub-
mitted an application Tuesday
to the Pennsylvania Gaming Centre
Control Board, six months after
Lubert won a $10 million bid for County
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libraries will
keep Dr. Seuss
books on the
shelves
BY MARLEY PARISH
mparish@centredaily.com
Six Dr. Seuss books will no
longer be published, but
Centre County readers will
still be able to access them at
the library.
However, they might have
to wait before it’s their turn to
read.
“Currently, most of the
copies of these six books are
checked out, and we have a
waitlist on many of them,”
Centre County Library and
Historical Museum Executive
Director Denise Sticha said.
In a statement released
Tuesday, Dr. Seuss
Enterprises said that it had
decided to end the publi-
cation and licensing of six
books by Theodor Seuss Gei-
sel. The titles include “And to
Think That I Saw It on Mul-
berry Street,” “If I Ran the
Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,”
“On Beyond Zebra!,” Scram-
bled Eggs Super!” and “The
Cat’s Quizzer” due to their
use of offensive imagery.
“These books portray peo-
ABBY DREY adrey@centredaily.com
ple in ways that are hurtful
and wrong,” Dr. Seuss En-
terprises said in the state-
ment. “Ceasing sales of these
books is only part of our com-
police at Rockview. After new mitment and our broader plan
allegations surfaced in January to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterpri-
that painted the officer who ses’s catalog represents and
fired at and struck Osagie as supports all communities and
mentally unstable and unfit for families.”
duty, Cantorna called for The announcement came
another investigation — to again on the author’s birthday,
be performed by state police at which also marks the kick-off
Rockview. The state police were for Read Across America —
previously unaware of the alle- the National Education
gations or, an attorney for the Association’s yearlong
Osagie family alleged in Jan-
uary, chose to ignore them. SEE DR. SEUSS, 4A
Based on Pennsylvania law,
the state attorney general can-
not take up the case and have
someone other than Rockview COVID-19 update
state police investigate unless as of Thursday:
Cantorna recuses himself. And
Cantorna told the Centre Daily PENNSYLVANIA
Times on Thursday that he has
no intention to do so. 941,439
“The jurisdiction for these cases
investigations is the local dis-
trict attorney, and that’s me,” 24,219
Cantorna said. “And, unless I deaths
have a conflict of interest, my
CENTRE COUNTY
responsibility is to address those
issues and make those deci-
sions.”
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For 75 minutes Thursday,
211
members of the 3/20 Coalition
braved scattered flurries and
deaths
held up signs — such as “Justice
for Osaze” and “Black Lives 27,603
Matter” — while writing similar partial vaccinations
messages in chalk. For 50 min-
utes, they laid on the sidewalk 13,488
while pedestrians and nearby full vaccinations
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