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In the news on this date: April 10

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 family celebrated at Semper Gratus fundraising event

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 ...

Israel lifts restrictions at Jerusalem’s holy sites

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 ...

Yesteryear

Local history on this date: April 9 50 years ago: April 9, 1976 The Altoona Chamber of Commerce sponsored a seminar on law enforcement careers for Altoona Area and Bishop Guilfoyle High School students with Pennsylvania State Policeman Dana Weller instructor in three sessions at Altoona High with about 500 students attending. 25 years ago: April 9, 2001 Pennsylvania State Police that week began posting wanted criminals on the internet at a startup cost of $2.3 million called the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System. 10 years ago: April 9, 2016 B&S Logging of Huntingdon ...

Local history on this date: April 8

50 years ago: Altoona Mayor Wiliam Stoufer bounced a basketball at Penn State Altoona to kick off the annual 100-hour basketball bounce throughout the city by campus students to raise money for the Easter Seal Society. Easter Seal Child Tammy Arrowsmith attended. 25 years ago: A “Yellow Ribbon” suicide prevention workshop was to be held next week at Altoona Area High School free and open to the public. Tina Henderson of Bedford, whose 13-year-old son Eric committed suicide, was to speak at the workshop. 10 years ago: Blair County, Mark Taylor Public Safety director, was asking ...

Lining it up

Despatch Films rail media creator Jasper Meldrum of Pittsford, N.Y., captures an eastbound Norfolk Southern freight train from the Amtrak platform in Tyrone. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski