This picture is of the 1935 Roaring Spring Baseball Team that was a member of the Blair Twilight League. This is from the Elmer Burket negative collection which is currently being preserved at the Blair County Genealogical Society. It was submitted by Victor Curfman of Altoona, formerly of ...
WATERVILLE, Maine — Rabbi Rachel Isaacs spent the days leading up to Passover overseeing the preparation of ceremonial foods at Beth Israel Congregation, a synagogue in central Maine where membership has quadrupled over the last 15 years. These days, growing congregations is very much ...
Clothing giveaway planned Grace’s Closet at Grace Lutheran Church, 1114 N. Cambria St., Bellwood, will host a clothing giveaway from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 11. Spring clothing is available. Masks are optional. For more information, call the church at 814-742-7501 or 814-742-7416. DelGrosso’s Lasagna Dinner Greenwood United Methodist Church, 1505 E. Walton Ave., Altoona, will serve a DelGrosso’s lasagna dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 11, in the social hall. The cost is $13 if paying in cash or $13.50 if using a debit or credit card. Meals, available for ...
Local history 50 years ago: April 10, 1976 Nine students from Tyrone High School and teacher George Wilbur were going on a 10-day trip to Rome, Italy. Students from Virginia, New Jersey and other states were also going and the students had to pay their own way. 25 years ago: April 10, 2001 Transportation Workers of America Union Local 27, Tom Lutton president, was to distribute 10,000 flyers in Blair County protesting the closing of the Hollidaysburg Car Shop and then move the protest to Bedford and Cambria Counties. At least five other unions had written thousands of letters to ...
Hollidaysburg native Jennifer Marasco Kuhn’s life turned upside down when her daughter, Cora, was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy known as Dravet Syndrome before her first birthday. According to the Dravet Syndrome Foundation website, the rare disease affects about one in 15,700 ...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Worshippers were able to pray again at Jerusalem’s holy sites Thursday after Israel lifted restrictions it imposed on large public gatherings throughout the war with Iran nearly six weeks ago. Jerusalem’s police said on Wednesday that they would lift restrictions on all holy sites and deploy hundreds of officers and volunteers in the city. Access had been prohibited altogether, or restricted to a few dozen faithful at a time, at Christian, Jewish and Muslim sites during the now-paused conflict, when missile attacks from Iran often sent Jerusalem residents ...
