ROARING SPRING — After nearly 50 years, a well-respected professional land surveyor has decided it’s time to step away from his work. Gerald Pastva, 73, of Roaring Spring, said it is time to call it a career. “It is mainly physical, (as) I am slowing down. The time was right,” said ...
The state Department of Human Services has restored the operating license for Blair County Children, Youth & Families — six weeks earlier than the pending expiration date of its provisional license. The state’s action, based on March 16 and 17 inspections, identified a few shortcomings within the agency responsible for addressing child welfare concerns within the county. But the amount was far less than identified in prior inspections leading to seven provisional licenses since the first was issued four years ago. In a statement distributed Wednesday, Pennsylvania DHS Secretary Val ...
EBENSBURG — Cambria County’s trailhead challenge is back and bigger than ever, Commissioner Tom Chernisky said Wednesday at a kickoff announcement near the Ghost Town Trail’s Ebensburg trailhead. Between May 1 and midnight Nov. 2, people who take a picture of their face by a trailhead ...
The recent substantial completion of Phase 1 of the Intergovernmental Stormwater Committee’s floodplain restoration on the Beaverdam Branch of the Juniata River behind Legion Park in Hollidaysburg has created a striking vista. The river now runs as it did before the days of colonial ...
Success stories from the Altoona Area School District’s Adult Education Program took centerstage Wednesday during a roundtable discussion with state Department of Education officials. The free Adult Education Program has received more than $474,000 in funding from the Shapiro ...
JOHNSTOWN — Carrie Betz met her eventual first dog at the Humane Society of Cambria County back in 2014 — a pitbull lab mix named Chaos. “He was the last puppy left in the litter, and he was just in there all alone,” said Betz, 36, who has worked at the facility located along 743 ...
