Local history 50 years ago: 1976 The Blair County Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association and Eliza Leader, executive secretary, said it would obey the state DER mandate to cease mobile chest X-rays but still believed they were beneficial. 25 years ago: 2001 Logan Township, Frank Meloy supervisor, was to work with Altoona, the Post Office and 911 Center to rename some streets and roads in Logan Township, especially Lakemont, to benefit the 911 Center. 10 years ago: 2016 Bryce Saylor & Sons used two cranes to lift a 1927 steam locomotive from the Everett Railroad ...