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Area Life

Slip sliding away

Vickie Burns of Juniata empties water from a Slip ‘N Slide for her grandchildren before folding it up on Friday afternoon.

Bottlecaps in Pokemon Go needs limitation

As the sun rose over the Penn State Altoona campus June 28 and 29, several Pokemon Go trainers were out and about for global Go Fest, arguably the game’s best event of the year. Some, like myself, got up as early as 6 a.m. to battle Zamazenta and Zacian in raids before wild spawns began ...

Blast of color

Andrew Cherry, 10, and his sister Rachael Cherry, 14, both of Altoona, create art using paint-loaded squirt guns during Teen Squirt Gun Painting outside of Altoona Area Public Library on Thursday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Anniversary celebration set at Williamsburg church

Anniversary celebration set The Old Keller Reformed Church, 8162 Fox Run Road, Williamsburg, will be opened for an annual homecoming service at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 3. All are invited to join in celebrating the faith and history preserved at the little church on the hill. Anyone ...

In Haiti, ‘People are praying to be saved’

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The massive crowd that would gather once a year at a revered waterfall in central Haiti where the faithful would splash in its sacred waters and rub their bodies with aromatic leaves was not there on Wednesday. Powerful gangs in March attacked the town of ...