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Isaac Bruce Stuckey retired from the Altoona Post Office on Jan. 1, 1945, after 41 years of service. Stuckey lived in the Llyswen area of Altoona. In the top photo, Stuckey is ready to head out on his route in his 1931 Ford Model AA U.S. Mail delivery truck. In the photo at left, Stuckey (right) and his co-worker are pictured in 1931 with a mule, which carried 175 pounds of mail up the steep hills of the city of Altoona. The photos were submitted by Joe and Ellen Stuckey of Martinsburg.
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Sept. 26, 1951
Robert B. Marsh, 14, Altoona, a student at Keith Junior High, brought three live rattlesnakes into the Altoona Mirror and had his photo taken holding one of them. Catching live snakes was his hobby.
Sept. 26, 1976
U.S. Secretary of Labor William J. Usery was in Altoona for Altoona's Bicentennial celebration and attended a dinner-dance at the Penn Alto Hotel. In an interview with the Mirror he stressed the importance of railroads to the economy and said Conrail was a necessity.
Sept. 26, 2001
Gene Boyle, director of the state Department of Health's Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs, was in Altoona and said the city needed a methadone treatment program because Blair County had 347 hospital admissions last year related to heroin.
Sept. 26, 2016
Gallitzin Borough Council was shocked when they learned that they owed a $20,000 electric bill for traffic lights at the Route 22 interchanges in Gallitzin and Cresson. PennDOT said it split such bills 50-50 with municipalities.
Sept. 27, 1951
A Pennsylvania Railroad crane that removed the old rusted trusses from the 29th Street Bridge in Altoona was being used to place the new trusses into place. The old bridge had been closed for one year.
A caravan of antique cars called the Glidden Tour visited Bedford Springs Hotel. One auto was custom built for a 1937 movie called "Young at Heart" starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Paulette Goddard. The car featured a V-8 engine and was owned by tour director E.G. Studebaker of Bedford.
Sept. 27, 1976
Eleven Model A cars dating from 1918 to 1931, members of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Model A Club, stopped at the Minuet Manor Motel outside Altoona and made plans to tour Blair County. Kenneth Peterson of Bellwood, son of club members Robert and Thelma Peterson, mapped the tour for the group.
Blair County Commissioner Colson E. Jones attended a meeting of the Appalachian Regional Commission with Joseph Fadale of Conrail and Stephen Mandes of the Southern Alleghenies Development Commission and said a rail training center for Altoona was a priority with first year cost estimated at $1 million.
Sept. 27, 2001
Altoona Hospital, Jim Barner CEO, announced that it was laying off 90 full-time employees because of operating losses of
$7 million last fiscal year, twice as high as the previous year. The payroll then was 1,455.
Altoona City Attorney Joel Kormanski asked the Blair County Court of Common Pleas to throw out a lawsuit brought by former city controller Stu Duncan and former recreation commission chairman Bill Schirf against the city to return $4.2 million in taxes they say was illegally collected.
Sept. 27, 2016
The Blair County Drug Court, which Judge Jolene G. Kopriva was instrumental in forming, was being accredited by the PA Supreme Court, with Justice David N. Wecht bestowing the honor at the Blair County Courthouse, Judge Kopriva accepting. Blair's DUI Court had been accredited last year.
The Blair County Democratic Party gathered at least 30 members at the AFSCME offices in Hollidaysburg to watch the presidential election debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The race was being called "exceedingly close."
Local news compiled by Tim Doyle. National, world news from The Associated Press will return next week.