HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Blair County Prison’s inmate population was down to 308 as of Thursday, its lowest level in a year and down from the mid-2024 months when the population exceeded 400. Reports presented Tuesday to the county prison board show the county relying on the Centre County ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — In the four weeks that K-9 Officer Dea has been on the streets of Blair County with her handler, Officer Bryan Ketner of the Hollidaysburg Borough Police Department, she’s already been deployed eight times and played a vital role leading to drug-related arrests in each ...
It’s hard to believe that railroad history buff Matthew Wolff didn’t grow up in Blair County. Ridgway native Wolff, 26, is the current archivist and historian at Altoona’s Railroaders Memorial Museum, where he works to preserve local artifacts for future generations. He’s also ...
Area railfans won’t have to travel far this summer to see the world’s largest operating steam locomotive as Union Pacific’s famed Big Boy No. 4014 will be steaming into Altoona on July 8 for a nearly four-day engagement as part of the America250 celebrations. While the engine’s East ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The bell inside the Blair County Courthouse clocktower is slated to ring again this year when the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding. The Fort Fetter American Legion Post has collected more than $60,000 toward a fundraising goal of $75,000 to pay for the ...
Raincoats and umbrellas didn’t crush students’ excitement Thursday morning at Peoples Natural Gas Field as they ditched the classroom for an education day with the Altoona Curve. One of those students was fourth grader Kinslee Swope of Mount Union Elementary School, who could be found ...
