Members of a student-run business at Tyrone’s Saint Matthew School chose to collect food for the Golden Eagle Backpack Program. “We wanted to help people who were hungry and when we found out it was kids just like us, we picked that as our first service project,” said Kennedy Shaffer, ...

Scout Troop 30 will be collecting new, unwrapped toys for the Marine Toys for Tots program during the Hollidaysburg Winterfest parade on Sunday, Nov. 23. Scouts and Marines will be walking alongside the Toy Story float with a Toys for Tots banner near the end of the parade and those with ...

“History Speaks,” the lecture series of the Blair County Historical Society, will present its final event of the year, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, at the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum. “Altoona’s German Heritage and History” will be presented by Harald Dertinger, historian ...

Teen refurbishes lifeguard station into multi-use facility Matthew Harkins of Altoona recently received his Eagle Scout designation at a Court of Honor conducted at the Duncansville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8724. Friends, family, Boy Scout Troop leaders and fellow scouts attended the ...

Courtesy photo Recently installed officers for the VFW Post 8685 Auxiliary “Fort Apache” are (from left): front row — Ro Rabenstein, secretary; Carol Brode, president; and Cindy Burket, treasurer; back row — Peggy Thatcher, chaplain; Deb Becker, guard; Stephanie Wilkes, trustee; Marji ...

Courtesy photo Through their work of Unity and Charity, Altoona Catholic Daughters of America Court Prince Gallitzin No. 2625 presented Jared boxes to Tim Balconi (president of the UPMC Altoona Hospital Foundation). Shown are (from left): Mary Grace Horton, Regent Donna Hoover, Carol Galioto, ...