Anne Danahy
ReporterAnne Danahy has been a reporter at WPSU since fall 2017. Before crossing over to radio, she was a reporter for more than 11 years at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where she covered everything from school board races to the impact of natural gas development on communities.
She earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and a master's degree in media studies from Penn State.
Before joining WPSU, she worked as a writer and editor at Penn State's Office of Strategic Communications and, before that, at the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
She also hosts a Q&A program for C-NET, Centre County's government and education access station. She is married with cats.
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Members of the public have until the end of the day March 19 to comment on PennDOT’s draft study of the 322 connector project in Centre County, one step in a project that could continue to change shape. -
Penn State plans to renovate Beaver Stadium and will be looking to fans to help foot the bill. -
The extra payments that participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, have been getting during the COVID-19 pandemic are ending this month in Pennsylvania, leaving food banks bracing for a surge in demand. -
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicaid recipients did not have to re-enroll in the program every year, but that’s changing and it means thousands of Pennsylvanians will no longer qualify or will qualify, but need to do the required paperwork. -
Bald eagle populations in Pennsylvania and the United States have rebounded over the years, but they’re still dying from lead poisoning, including an eagle Centre Wildlife Care in central Pennsylvania had tried to treat. -
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board voted Wednesday to approve issuing a license for a company to operate a casino in the Nittany Mall in Centre County, but the project could still face delays because of legal challenges from another company. -
State College Area School District President Amber Concepcion will become a Centre County commissioner, filling an opening created by Chairman Michael Pipe's appointment as deputy chief of staff for public safety by incoming Governor Josh Shapiro. -
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board voted Wednesday to deny the petition for legal discovery from Stadium Casino RE LLC, which was seeking access to financial ownership information about SC Gaming Op Co LLC, the company that wants to open a casino in the Nittany Mall, in Centre County.
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The State College Redevelopment Authority has applied for state funding to study the Fairmount Building, 411 S. Fraser St., including options and costs for renovating it. -
The historic Nittany Lion Inn on Penn State’s University Park campus was opened for a furniture sale this week to get ready for a change in ownership. Shoppers who turned out got a chance to buy everything from mattresses to medicine balls.
