The Hollidaysburg Borough marked the official opening of the Slinky Center at Reiser House Tuesday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, which welcomed borough council members, state representatives and members of the community. Hollidaysburg has been home to the Slinky toy since 1964. To ...
The House energy committee chair is drafting legislation to give statutory teeth to some recent state actions to regulate data centers. A proposal by Majority Chair Elizabeth Fiedler, D-Philadelphia, addresses Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Aug. 18 executive order on data centers and actions by the state Public Utility Commission (PUC). “If a data center requires new generation, transmission, distribution or other grid infrastructure, the costs should be borne by the companies creating that demand — not spread across Pennsylvania’s existing electricity customers,” said Fiedler in a ...
Dan Casey of Juniata takes his daily 30-minute walk along North Fifth Street despite the rain on Monday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
Accidents between the new motorized/electric bikes and larger vehicles have been ticking up in recent months and that has Altoona police on a campaign to educate riders and, when necessary, issue fines. Safety — for the bike riders who are often teenagers and for the general public — is ...
ROARING SPRING — The Spring Cove School Board is currently looking for a new member after Kevin Smith resigned due to ongoing issues with someone else on the board. At Monday’s meeting, the board voted 7 to 1 to approve member Smith’s resignation, with all members voting in favor ...
STATE COLLEGE — The Penn State Board of Trustees on Friday voted to approve the sale of two closing campuses to private development firms. The 12.7-acre Penn State Shenango campus in Mercer County will be sold to JCL Development for $1 million, and the 57.3-acre Wilkes-Barre campus in Luzerne County will be sold to HGC Development for $5.25 million. The decision marks the first real estate action taken by the university to sell any of the seven commonwealth campuses slated for closure in 2027. The other campuses are DuBois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, and York. The board in ...
