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Curve Booster Club holds appreciation dinner

The Altoona Curve Booster Club held its Appreciation Dinner for the 2025 Altoona Curve Team at the Altoona Grand Hotel toward the end of the season. Every year, the Booster Club recognizes each player and coach with a dinner and monetary gift to thank and honor them. In addition to the ...

Honoring veterans

Courtesy photo Lorelai Harker, senior cheerleading captain at Hollidaysburg Area High School participated in this year’s Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade on Dec. 7 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Watch the powerful performance of the Varsity Spirit All-Americans during the 2025 Pearl Harbor Memorial ...

Supporting the angel tree

Courtesy photo The Central Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women club members donated $1,000 in Amazon gift cards to Guardian of the Children’s Angel Tree at the Nov. 18 meeting. Contributors include (from left): first row — Patty Swires, Janet Wasserman, Missy Kissell, Paula ...

RN donates $25K toward nursing scholarships

Woman vows to match funds received through Dec. 31 Betty Long, MHA, RN, founder, president and CEO of Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates and outgoing president of the board of trustees for the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania, has made a personal gift of $25,000 to strengthen the organization’s longstanding scholarship fund. As part of her final year leading the board, Long also committed to match additional donations received through Dec. 31, 2025, up to another $25,000. Long hopes her gift would inspire others to contribute so the scholarship fund can provide even greater ...

‘Keep Christ in Christmas’

Courtesy photo Council No. 522, Ebensburg Knights of Columbus, recently held its annual “Keep Christ in Christmas” poster contest at Holy Name Catholic School. Winners were (from left): Lillian Rhoads (second place), Cole Brown (third place) and Haley Eckenrode (first place). Others in ...

Yesteryear

Melissa Minnoia of Altoona said a customer gave this photo to her when she used to work for Citizens Bank, 312 Allegheny St., Hollidaysburg. This photo is from the early 1900s when it was the original Citizens National Bank. Readers are encouraged to send or deliver old local photographs of ...