50 years ago: With Leonard S. Fiore Inc. as the contractor, Mansion Park was undergoing a $500,000 facelift, including a new drainage system, resodded football field, repainted grandstands, an eight-lane track around the field and improved locker rooms and lavatory facilities.

25 years ago: A new group called PA Cleanways of Blair County, Dave Thomas president, was seeking volunteers to clean up a dump site in Catharine Township. Teenage volunteers needed to be accompanied by an adult.

10 years ago: The American Legion Post 835 from the Hollidaysburg Veterans Home, John Gill and Jim Maley members, led a ceremony at the Blair County Courthouse to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War (April 9, 1865).

Today is Thursday, April 10, the 100th day of 2025. There are 265 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On April 10, 1998, the Northern Ireland peace talks concluded as negotiators signed the Good Friday Agreement, a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.

On this date:

– In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in New York by Henry Bergh.

– In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, bound for New York on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

– In 1919, Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was assassinated by forces loyal to President Venustiano Carranza.

– In 1963, the nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank during deep-diving tests east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing all 129 aboard.

– In 1971, the U.S. table tennis team arrived in China at the invitation of the communist government for a goodwill visit that came to be known as “ping-pong diplomacy.”

– In 2019, scientists released the first image ever made of a black hole, revealing a fiery, doughnut-shape object in a galaxy 55 million light-years from earth.