Events Articles

A chili taste-off will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, in the Little Theater of the Acacia Club on Market Street in Williamsport. Contestants are requested to bring about 2 gallons of chili in a crockpot or other electric device (no cooking facilities are available). Rival chilis will be judged by students from Penn College's School of Hospitality.

Southern Italy native Sabrina LaRosa will lend her expertise to students during the next installment of the Visiting Chef Series at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

A University of Iowa engineering student who became a YouTube sensation with a speech defending gay marriage will bring his story to Pennsylvania College of Technology at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11. Raised by a gay couple, Zach Wahls will offer his perspective of "What Makes a Family?" during a free, public lecture in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium.

Alumni of Pennsylvania College of Technology and its forerunners, Williamsport Area Community College and Williamsport Technical Institute, are returning for a campus homecoming this weekend and sharing their stories as the college counts down to a milestone anniversary. A 2014 centennial will mark the 100th anniversary of adult-education classes on the site of its campus in Williamsport.

The effect on the local housing market from the natural gas industry and recent flooding was the subject of a state Senate Urban Affairs and Housing Committee hearing, convened Tuesday morning at Penn College's Thompson Professional Development Center. The committee, chaired by Sen.

Billionaire "oil man" T. Boone Pickens, the founder of one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States and chair of B.P.

Phi Mu Delta and Kay Jewelers sold teddy bears and raffled a necklace on Tuesday, raising $800 for St. Jude Children's Hospital. The retailer and fraternity work closely with the hospital, which provides medical care to youngsters with no regard to a family's ability to pay, and collected its sizable donation in a matter of hours outside the Keystone Dining Room. Photos provided by Phi Mu Delta

A total of 23 white-shirted teams took part in this week's Black Light Dodgeball tournament, the first activity of the semester for the Wildcat Events Board.

Williamsport's role in ferrying 19th-century slaves to freedom will be explored Tuesday, Oct. 25, at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Klump Academic Center Auditorium. The free 7 p.m. lecture, "The Underground Railroad and Its Williamsport Connection," will be presented by Dorothy E. King, an assistant professor of sociology at Penn State Harrisburg.

The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of the Madigan Library at Pennsylvania College of Technology, will present "Kaleidoscope," an exhibition that celebrates the many artistic facets of the college's alumni community, from Oct. 7 to Nov. 6.