Flag Day may be one of the lesser national holidays, but it’s pretty big in Altoona. Every year on June 14, the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation works with city government to hold an event commemorating the holiday in Heritage Plaza, from where one can look up 14th Street to Gospel ...
Mid-1980s Altoona Hospital School of Nursing graduate Carol Ruffley nursed a feeling of disappointment for years after that school closed in 1996. The announcement last year that successor hospital UPMC Altoona would revive the institution in the form of a UPMC Mercy School of Nursing ...
A new Senate bill overhauls the way aviation is funded in Pennsylvania. Senate Bill 1365 sponsored by Sen. Daniel Laughlin, R-Erie, with bipartisan support creates a state Aviation Trust Fund with dedicated revenue to pay for airport improvements, service expansion, growth of new technology and workforce development. SB1365 draws revenue from 0.425% of state sales tax revenue, a hike in aviation fuel taxes, taxes on emerging aviation fuels such as hydrogen and electric power, higher license and inspection fees and federal funding. The new money would go to improve terminals, runways, ...
Fathers Day is celebrated next weekend and I want to honor, in my estimation, a great man, my Dad. William McKinley Wentz was born to Elizabeth and John Henry Wentz 129 years ago in a log house at Ore Hill. William McKinley was the U.S. president at the time, hence the name. Dad was the ...
Claysburg-Kimmel School District is facing a $744,703 deficit as board members continue to work to balance the 2026-27 budget. Before the board approves the final budget on June 17, they’re looking at the district’s revenue total of $16,350,813 and its expenditures total of $17,095,516. According to Dena Burket, the board weighs three different budgets during their budget presentation, including a best-case scenario, a moderate option and a worst-case scenario. With the worst-case scenario creating a $1.4 million deficit, she said board members are tasked with choosing what ...
A federal appeals court last week ruled that a former magistrate judge serving in the U.S. District Court in Johnstown erred when he failed to appoint an attorney to represent an immigrant who sought damages for an injury to his leg and back when he was housed at the Moshannon Valley ...
