When Margie Keller was a child in the mid to late 1960s, her mom would take her shopping in downtown Altoona, and they’d stop to eat at the lunch counter in McCrory’s 5 & 10. On Tuesday, Keller opened an outlet store for her Ashville winery in the same spot as that old lunch ...
Chocolate bunnies, crosses, chicks, eggs and more — solid, hollow and dipped — will be popping up in Easter baskets this weekend, alongside jelly beans and other sweet treats. This is good news for the area’s candy makers and merchants, as economic uncertainty over tariffs or the ...
ROARING SPRING — In a 7-2 vote, the Spring Cove School Board denied about $222,000 in funding for the district’s 2025-26 capital projects, which included elementary school playground fencing, grab bars for handicap bathrooms and sealing asphalt at two Central High School parking lots. The ...
JOHNSTOWN 1st Summit net income increases for 1Q 2025 1st Summit Bancorp of Johnstown, the parent company of 1st Summit Bank, reported net income of $775,000 for the first quarter of 2025, or $0.36 per diluted share, representing a 28.0% increase compared to the December 2024 quarter after ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The woman who in May 2023 helped a Philadelphia drug trafficker conceal a large stash of illegal substances was sentenced Tuesday to six to 15 years’ incarceration, despite the woman’s plea for a probationary sentence to address what she described as a stupid ...
The state Senate Majority Policy Committee Tuesday held a hearing in Altoona to receive testimony in support of a bill proposed by committee member Judy Ward, R-Blair, that would prohibit “irreversible” transgender treatment for minors — both medicinal and surgical. The committee took ...