The Altoona High School Class of 1964 will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Main Street Grille, 400 Main St., Bellwood. Call or text Sue @ 814-935-7774 or Evelyn @ 814-931-5962 to RSVP. The group meets the third Thursday of the month for lunch.
STATE COLLEGE — Pennsylvania lawmakers have quietly erased longstanding deed restrictions on seven closing Penn State campuses, allowing the university to sell the entire properties to private buyers rather than return portions of the land to state control. Penn State is starting with two locations. Proposed real estate transactions for the Penn State Shenango campus in Mercer County and Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus in Luzerne County are slated for review by the Board of Trustees at its upcoming Sept. 18 meeting, university spokesperson Wyatt DuBois confirmed to Spotlight PA in an ...
City Council on Monday awarded a contract for demolition of the nine-unit Sunset apartment building on the 2200 block of Broad Avenue, whose residents were evacuated in July 2025, after structural brickwork on the left side began to bow — deterioration that has worsened since then, creating ...
After receiving an unexpected $8.5 million in additional state revenue than what was budgeted for earlier this year, the Altoona Area School District now finds itself with about a $3.1 million surplus instead of a $4.9 million shortfall. The board raised taxes by 3% in June to cover the ...
The Van Zandt VA Medical Center will conduct an emergency preparedness exercise from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, which means patients and visitors may hear exercise-related sounds and announcements and may see more than the usual numbers of police and emergency vehicles — along with exercise participants wearing identification vests, volunteers pretending to be patients and signs reading “Exercise in Progress,” according to a hospital news release. No one should be alarmed, and there will be no danger, according to the news release. The exercise will be confined to specific ...
ROARING SPRING — A Spring Cove School Board member proposed adding an indoor track team to the district’s athletics program during Monday’s committee of the whole meeting. “This would be an opportunity to showcase them in a way that we never showcased our track athletes before,” member Erika Smith said to the board. She said all participants are lumped into a quad A division, and not every school district offers the sport. Because the PIAA sanctioned indoor track a year and a half ago, clubs can no longer participate in sanctioned meets. “It brings about a need for us ...
