Altoona City Department of Public Works employee Jeff Arthurs installs a traffic camera on a signal pole at 13th Avenue on Friday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

I have lost count of how many times I have, in great sadness, gazed upon the demolition of a beautiful old building. While a problem throughout America, it is a particularly vexing one in old Rust Belt cities like Altoona. The pattern has been repeated so often. An older structure, often ...

Altoona residents Mike and Karen Sadar-Watt will present a drama based on the lives of Louis and Louisa Gregory, an interracial Baha’i couple who were married in New York City in 1912. The presentation will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, in the Black Box Theatre at Juniata College, ...

Penn State Altoona’s spring theatre production, “The Wake of Jamey Foster” by Beth Henley, will run March 21-22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. An eccentric Mississippi family gathers for the obligatory wake of their ...

Tickets for Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” presented by P&J Productions go on sale March 1. The production will be presented at 7:30 p.m. May 16 & 17 and at 2 p.m. May 18 at the Mishler Theatre. The cast features Ian Brumbaugh as Beast, Margot Masucci as Belle, Kyle Kelly as ...

A worker from Ventura Construction Services strikes mortar joints at the Altoona Police Department building expansion worksite on Tuesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski