As potential adoption of regulations for short-terms rentals approaches, Staff felt it appropriate to highlight the process for registering nonconformities. An application, which can be found at www.harristownship.org, must be completed and submitted with a $50 fee. The documentation related to non-owner-occupied short-term rentals, evidence that a unit or dwelling has been rented in the 60 days prior to adoption of the short-term rental regulations, must also be submitted with the application and fee. Staff will review all such applications and, if the applications meet the standards for nonconforming status (see Chapter 12-8.3 of the Harris Township Code of Ordinances), Certificates of Nonconformity will be issued. Please contact the Zoning/Ordinance Enforcement Officer with any questions while navigating the process.
There will be no collection of curbside refuse and recycling on Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years Days. All collection will be delayed one day for the rest of those weeks.
How to Ensure that All Your Refuse and Recycling is Collected:
Refuse is only collected using your Burgmeier’s cart. Bag all regular household trash to avoid spillage during collection. You may place other items directly in the cart.
Leave 3 feet on all sides of the cart. Place your cart away from mailboxes, trees, garage doors, cars, your recycling bin, and any extra bags.
Do not place your cart beneath a tree or tree branches to avoid damage to your and the township’s trees.
Do not park your car directly in front of your or a neighbor’s cart. Do not place your cart behind a parked car.
Extra bags beside the cart will be collected for $4 per bag. If you have small items you need to dispose of, bag those or place them directly in your cart.
Items that do not fit in your cart or in a bag must be scheduled for a bulk collection.
Wood and lumber in your cart must be in lengths of no more than 2 feet (otherwise it binds up the compactor).
Place your paper and paperboard for recycling in bags or in a paperboard box (like a cereal box) and place that in your red recycling bin so that it does not litter your neighborhood.
Flatten all corrugated cardboard and place it under your red recycling bin. Do not wedge it between your refuse cart and your bin.
Go to crcog.net/refuse for contact details, guidance on scheduling bulk waste collection, and items excluded from weekly refuse collection.
Stay Informed During Weather Events: Service Updates Made Easy
When weather impacts recycling or refuse collection, we want to make sure you’re the first to know. Here are some ways to stay informed:
✅ Visit the Website. Check the alert section at CentreCountyRecycles.org for the latest updates and announcements.
✅ Follow the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority and the Centre Regional Planning Agency on Social Media. Get real-time information on: Facebook and Instagram.
✅ Download the Recycle Coach App. Sign up for alerts in the app to receive instant notifications about delays, cancellations, or changes to your pickup schedule.
✅ Via the Navusoft Portal (your online refuse account). Update your contact information in the portal at centrecounty-portal.navusoft.net/to receive push notifications. You can also log into your account to view service alerts and important messages tailored to your address.
✅Receive an Email Alert from the COG. Sign up at www.crcog.net/refuse by clicking on the Subscribe to Alert and Newsletter button.
Stay safe, stay connected, and help us keep Centre County running smoothly—even when the weather doesn’t.
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C-NET, your local Government and Educational Access organization, has been making closed captions available to view on our online programs on cnet1.org since February of 2024. This service has been made available as an option to all of C-NET’s seventeen member organizations.
Harris Township has chosen to support closed captioning of all sponsored programs including the meetings of the Harris Township Board of Supervisors and the Township’s Planning Commission. Captioning on Township programs are also accessible when viewed on several “OTT” platforms including Roku, AppleTV and Amazon Fire.
In addition to Harris Township programs, closed captioning is available on programs sponsored by the State College Area School District, Centre County Government, the Centre Region Council of Governments, Centre Region Parks and Recreation, CATA, Schlow Centre Region Library, and several other C-NET member organizations. Please note that the captions will not be accessible on C-NET’s television channels, but only on the online programs on cnet1.org.
We appreciate Harris Township’s commitment to making programs online more accessible to its residents. For questions regarding closed captioning, or any other C-NET service, please contact C-NET at cnet@cnet1.org or by phone at (814) 238-5031.
There will no longer be Spring and Fall bulk waste weeks. Why? Because the method and timing of Bulk Waste Collection for residents with curbside trash collection has changed. Here’s how to dispose of your bulk waste from now on:
Small bulk items should go in your cart every week.
Large bulk items such as furniture and rugs will be collected “on demand.” You may schedule to have 2 bulk collections per year for a total of 4 large bulk items per year. Those 4 items are included in your refuse service.
Bulk recyclables will also be collected “on demand”. You may schedule to have 2 bulk recyclables collections per year for a total of 4 large recyclable items per year. This includes appliances, covered-device electronics such as televisions and computers, and car tires (4 car tires off the rims = 1 item). Those 4 items are included in your refuse service.
The collection of additional bulk items or bulk recyclables may be scheduled for an extra fee. When you call or email to schedule your collection, customer service will be able to provide a cost for any extra items.
Schedule your bulk collections whenever it is convenient for you by calling 814-826-2722 or emailing cogcs@centrecountyrecycles.org. You will know the exact day your items will be picked up.
Do you have unwanted items that seem too good to go to the landfill? There are a lot of options for getting what you cannot use any more into the hands of someone who can. Go to www.crcog.net/refusefor ways to donate unwanted items. Click on the “Donate, don’t Dump” image.
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Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority – Bulk Items
Did you know you can take items to the Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority free of charge and not have to call for bulk collection. Below is a list of items the Authority will accept free of charge or for a minimum fee.
Scrap Metal & Appliances
Appliances, or white goods, are accepted for recycling at the Transfer Station from any Centre County resident for no charge.
They will accept the following items:
– Air conditioners and dehumidifiers
– Clothes washing and drying machines
– Dish washers
– Metal pots and pans
– Furnaces and electrical heaters
– Water heaters
– Refrigerators and freezers
– Stoves, ovens, microwaves
– Helium tanks
They will NOT accept the following items:
– Sealed units (propane bottles)
– Medical lab & hospital scrap machinery
– Gasoline & fuel tanks
– Drums, barrels, paint cans and tar buckets
– Pipe or boilers wrapped in insulation
– Lighting fixtures
– Any scrap material containing hazardous waste material
Tires
The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority accepts tires for recycling.
Residents delivering personal automotive and small truck tires from their vehicles will be accepted at the following rates: $84.00 per ton/$25.00 minimum.
Throughout 2024, Harris Township staff worked with Shentel Communications LLC to design a project that would allow the company to install cable utility infrastructure throughout the Township. Where overhead lines exist, Shentel is utilizing existing poles to run their lines; where no overhead lines exist, Shentel must excavate within the street rights-of-way or within other existing easements to install their cables underground along with small above ground accessory structures.
Harris Township started issuing permits to Shentel in November 2024 for the areas that require groundwork. Shentel has been doing that work for about four months. As part of the permitting process, Shentel must permanently restore the areas within Township street rights-of-way that they in any way disturb and they must warrant such work for two years following Township inspection and approval of the restoration. Permanent restoration cannot take place until after winter when grass can grow. Township staff will walk each disturbed area with Shentel representatives when work in those areas is complete and restoration appears to be compliant with Township standards. Staff will also periodically check those areas for the following two years in case any warranty work is required.
If residents should have any questions about the project, they can contact the Township Office by calling 814-466-6228 or they can email at zoning@harristownship.org.
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Registering Non-Owner-Occupied Short-Term Rentals
/in Headlines, NotificationsAs potential adoption of regulations for short-terms rentals approaches, Staff felt it appropriate to highlight the process for registering nonconformities. An application, which can be found at www.harristownship.org, must be completed and submitted with a $50 fee. The documentation related to non-owner-occupied short-term rentals, evidence that a unit or dwelling has been rented in the 60 days prior to adoption of the short-term rental regulations, must also be submitted with the application and fee. Staff will review all such applications and, if the applications meet the standards for nonconforming status (see Chapter 12-8.3 of the Harris Township Code of Ordinances), Certificates of Nonconformity will be issued. Please contact the Zoning/Ordinance Enforcement Officer with any questions while navigating the process.
Refuse and Recycling Changes to Collection Schedule
/in Headlines, NotificationsThere will be no collection of curbside refuse and recycling on Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years Days. All collection will be delayed one day for the rest of those weeks.
How to Ensure that All Your Refuse and Recycling is Collected:
Stay Informed During Weather Events: Service Updates Made Easy
When weather impacts recycling or refuse collection, we want to make sure you’re the first to know. Here are some ways to stay informed:
✅ Visit the Website. Check the alert section at CentreCountyRecycles.org for the latest updates and announcements.
✅ Follow the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority and the Centre Regional Planning Agency on Social Media. Get real-time information on: Facebook and Instagram.
✅ Download the Recycle Coach App. Sign up for alerts in the app to receive instant notifications about delays, cancellations, or changes to your pickup schedule.
✅ Via the Navusoft Portal (your online refuse account). Update your contact information in the portal at centrecounty-portal.navusoft.net/to receive push notifications. You can also log into your account to view service alerts and important messages tailored to your address.
✅Receive an Email Alert from the COG. Sign up at www.crcog.net/refuse by clicking on the Subscribe to Alert and Newsletter button.
Stay safe, stay connected, and help us keep Centre County running smoothly—even when the weather doesn’t.
C-Net Online Programs More Accessible – A Note from C-Net Executive Director, Cindy Hahn
/in Headlines, NotificationsC-NET, your local Government and Educational Access organization, has been making closed captions available to view on our online programs on cnet1.org since February of 2024. This service has been made available as an option to all of C-NET’s seventeen member organizations.
Harris Township has chosen to support closed captioning of all sponsored programs including the meetings of the Harris Township Board of Supervisors and the Township’s Planning Commission. Captioning on Township programs are also accessible when viewed on several “OTT” platforms including Roku, AppleTV and Amazon Fire.
In addition to Harris Township programs, closed captioning is available on programs sponsored by the State College Area School District, Centre County Government, the Centre Region Council of Governments, Centre Region Parks and Recreation, CATA, Schlow Centre Region Library, and several other C-NET member organizations. Please note that the captions will not be accessible on C-NET’s television channels, but only on the online programs on cnet1.org.
We appreciate Harris Township’s commitment to making programs online more accessible to its residents. For questions regarding closed captioning, or any other C-NET service, please contact C-NET at cnet@cnet1.org or by phone at (814) 238-5031.
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Getting Rid of Your Junk
/in Headlines, NotificationsThere will no longer be Spring and Fall bulk waste weeks. Why? Because the method and timing of Bulk Waste Collection for residents with curbside trash collection has changed. Here’s how to dispose of your bulk waste from now on:
The collection of additional bulk items or bulk recyclables may be scheduled for an extra fee. When you call or email to schedule your collection, customer service will be able to provide a cost for any extra items.
Schedule your bulk collections whenever it is convenient for you by calling 814-826-2722 or emailing cogcs@centrecountyrecycles.org. You will know the exact day your items will be picked up.
Do you have unwanted items that seem too good to go to the landfill? There are a lot of options for getting what you cannot use any more into the hands of someone who can. Go to www.crcog.net/refuse for ways to donate unwanted items. Click on the “Donate, don’t Dump” image.
Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority – Bulk Items
/in Headlines, NotificationsCentre County Refuse and Recycling Authority – Bulk Items
Did you know you can take items to the Centre County Refuse and Recycling Authority free of charge and not have to call for bulk collection. Below is a list of items the Authority will accept free of charge or for a minimum fee.
Scrap Metal & Appliances
Appliances, or white goods, are accepted for recycling at the Transfer Station from any Centre County resident for no charge.
They will accept the following items:
– Air conditioners and dehumidifiers
– Clothes washing and drying machines
– Dish washers
– Metal pots and pans
– Furnaces and electrical heaters
– Water heaters
– Refrigerators and freezers
– Stoves, ovens, microwaves
– Helium tanks
They will NOT accept the following items:
– Sealed units (propane bottles)
– Medical lab & hospital scrap machinery
– Gasoline & fuel tanks
– Drums, barrels, paint cans and tar buckets
– Pipe or boilers wrapped in insulation
– Lighting fixtures
– Any scrap material containing hazardous waste material
Tires
The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority accepts tires for recycling.
Residents delivering personal automotive and small truck tires from their vehicles will be accepted at the following rates: $84.00 per ton/$25.00 minimum.
Please call their office at 814-238-7005 with questions. For a complete list of items that can be recycled, please click here: https://www.centrecountyrecycles.org/recycling
Shentel GLO Fiber Construction Update
/in Headlines, NotificationsThroughout 2024, Harris Township staff worked with Shentel Communications LLC to design a project that would allow the company to install cable utility infrastructure throughout the Township. Where overhead lines exist, Shentel is utilizing existing poles to run their lines; where no overhead lines exist, Shentel must excavate within the street rights-of-way or within other existing easements to install their cables underground along with small above ground accessory structures.
Harris Township started issuing permits to Shentel in November 2024 for the areas that require groundwork. Shentel has been doing that work for about four months. As part of the permitting process, Shentel must permanently restore the areas within Township street rights-of-way that they in any way disturb and they must warrant such work for two years following Township inspection and approval of the restoration. Permanent restoration cannot take place until after winter when grass can grow. Township staff will walk each disturbed area with Shentel representatives when work in those areas is complete and restoration appears to be compliant with Township standards. Staff will also periodically check those areas for the following two years in case any warranty work is required.
If residents should have any questions about the project, they can contact the Township Office by calling 814-466-6228 or they can email at zoning@harristownship.org.