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WISE Women offers scholarships

WISE Women of Blair County and the Donna D. Gority scholarship are seeking applications for scholarship assistance. One or more scholarships will be awarded up to a total of $10,000. Deadline for applications is 4 p.m. Friday, March 27. Applications must be received by U.S. Postal mail at WISE Women: P.O. Box 134, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648 or by email info@wisewomenofblaircounty.org. Scholarships will be available to Blair County resident females 21 years of age or older who have overcome adversity or discrimination in their lives and who are pursuing post-secondary education. The ...

In the news on this date: March 3

Local history 50 years ago: 1976 Three Hollidaysburg Area High School choral students, Janice Wilson, Randy Over and David Henshey, sang with the Region 1 State Chorus at Brookville Area Senior High School. Two had been accepted at colleges to study music and one was still a junior. 25 years ago: 2001 Business Ethics Balance, a firm that provided training, evaluations and ethics audits to help businesses improve human relations, opened in the Brett Central Building, 1216 11th Ave. 10 years ago: 2016 The Wall Street Journal reported that Canadian Pacific Railroad, which ...

Mardi Gras event

Keith and Renee Parowski were voted Mardi Gras king and queen during the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art’s 50th anniversary celebration Cash Bash, a Mardi Gras-themed fundraising event on Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Bavarian Hall in Altoona. It featured Bourbon Street-style jazz by the ...

AAJHS Drama Club to present ‘Beetlejuice, Jr.’

The Altoona Area Junior High School Drama Club will present “Beetlejuice, Jr.” with nearly 90 students participating. Public performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, March 5, and Friday, March 6, with a matinee show at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 7. A Senior Citizen Preview will take ...

Horoscope — Sunday, March 1

Fantastic gifts come by way of a blind box, random surprise or stroke of dumb luck. Aries (March 21-April 19): No path is inherently better or worse, only different. You needn’t agonize over finding the absolute best route, nor should you feel pressured to make a good choice. You’re the one who makes the choice good. Taurus (April 20-May 20): They want you to buy what you don’t need, and some of it is downright bad for you. Consumerism pulls your focus into systems optimized for someone else’s goals. Power flows toward whoever sets the frame –– let that be you. Gemini ...

Across the area

School retirees to meet March 3 The monthly meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 3, at Marzoni’s in Duncansville. Donations will be collected for The Brian Morden Foundation. New members are welcome. Trout Unlimited to meet March 5 The John Kennedy Chapter of Trout Unlimited will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 5, at the Allegheny Township Volunteer Fire Department Hall, 651 Sugar Run Road, Altoona. The featured speaker will be Frank Nale of Tipton. Nale has been fishing with spinners for more than 47 ...