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Leagues still hope to play ball

On Monday, because of the Coronavirus pandemic, Legion baseball was canceled in the state, which affects six teams in the Mirror coverage area. However, local baseball is still holding a wait-and-see approach before following the lead of the Pennsylvania American Legion Department. “The ...

Going out of the way to save the TP

How’s everybody doing right now? Hang in there. Try to find some humor, even in the smallest and most mundane, of things. I have tried, and I have succeeded. For those of you who have read this column in the past, and anointed my wife a saint, she has been especially saint-like during ...

One final go for area swimmers

Nick Buckley and Conor McKeirnan both have something in common, they’ve been to the PIAA State Swimming and Diving Championships at Bucknell University before. As seniors, they will get to share that one more time this week when McKeirnan, a Hollidaysburg Golden Tiger, and Buckley, a ...

Humbly accepting gifts

There are plenty of narcissistic ways to start off a column, but I can’t think of a better way than coming right out and saying it like this: People love me. But there’s a reason (there’s always a reason in this column) for me saying it like that. People just always seem to give me ...

Area swimmers prep for districts

High school swimmers Conor McKeirnan, Nick Buckley and Colby Grubb all made it to the PIAA State Meet a year ago. Starting Friday, those three, plus a host of others, are hoping to accomplish the same thing again. McKeirnan, a senior from Hollidaysburg, was a District 6 3A champion a year ...

Fast & furious: Altoona downs Tigers

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Altoona boys basketball coach Jarrod Klausman preaches many things to his Mountain Lions but two of them are to start fast and finish strong. He got that Tuesday night on the road against rival Hollidaysburg. Making their first seven 3-pointers of the game, coupled with a ...