Sydney Roach
Reporter/HostSydney Roach is an award-winning reporter and host for WPSU since 2023 with a passion for radio and community stories. She's a graduate of Northern Cambria High School and Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
Before working in public media, she worked two years as a News Producer at WTAJ-TV where she coordinated breaking news coverage of a major gas explosion and the accidental killing of a correctional officer.
If you have a story idea in the Central/Northern Pennsylvania region, email sydroach@psu.edu.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro spoke to a nearly packed conference room of almost 400 people at the Penn Stater in State College Saturday morning ahead of this year’s midterm elections. -
Hollidaysburg Borough Council members are compromising on their vision for a Slinky museum, which will soon share exhibit space with another part of the borough’s history. -
State College is the top small college town in the nation, according to a USA Today ranking this week. An expert panel nominates the towns, which have to have a population of 50,000 or less, and then readers vote on their top choices. -
Starting next month, the state of Pennsylvania is sponsoring a five-concert series to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced the tour dates and locations for the free events Thursday in Harrisburg. -
Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam, the State College man who was released from prison after his conviction for first-degree murder was overturned last year, only to be taken into ICE custody, could soon be released from the Moshannon Valley Processing Center. -
A group of community members in Clearfield are hoping to save the Clearfield Regional Police Department, which the borough council is thinking about dissolving. -
Warren General Hospital is asking for community donations to a new $7 million capital campaign, which officials say will go toward “essential infrastructure and state-of-the-art medical equipment,” including new CT Scanners and MRI and Ultrasound machines. -
The Blair County Historical Society is celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by highlighting local history with several events and exhibits throughout the year. -
PennDOT officials say drivers should expect detours at I-99 in Worth Township and Route 322 in College Township from March 31 until early June. -
In this last story of a three-part series, WPSU explains what state legislators are doing about facility fees and what you can do about them in the meantime.
