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Yesteryear-Roaring Spring basketball

The Roaring Spring High School Girls Basketball Team from 1940-41 included (from left): first row — Coach Earl Hite Jr., Chip Ray, Doris Hite, Dorothy Morgart, Pauline Metzger, Nancy Garver, Jeanette Claar and Miss Mildred Melchoir; second row — Mid Shoenfelt, Dorothy McCown, Doris Ketner, Barbara Carrothers, Alice Smith, Elaine Butler, Gladys Holsinger and Elsie Keith; third row — Mary Kay Albright, Donna Bechtel, Rozella Albright, Jean Lauer, Ruth Shoenfelt and Gail Yoder. The photo was submitted by Victor L. Curfman of Altoona, formerly of Roaring Spring. Readers are ...

Horoscope & meditation — Nov. 2

Sunday, Nov. 2 You’ll finally close a chapter that’s been stealing your focus and energy. What opens next is vivid, creative and prosperous. Aries (March 21-April 19): Forgiveness isn’t always an act of sainthood. Sometimes it’s just emotional pragmatism. Forgiveness can be the easy route to freedom. It lets you move on, and moving on makes life easier. Do it for yourself. Taurus (April 20-May 20) People trust you, and you’ll get the evidence of it in their requests and expectations. It doesn’t mean you have to agree to whatever they want. The key to maintaining trust ...

In the news on this date: Oct. 29

Local history 50 years ago: Oct. 29, 1975 Altoona found it would cost $1.8 million for the Hamilton Park Development Plan for a 70-acre commercial site along Chestnut Avenue to 21st Avenue they called a “new town in town.” 25 years ago: Oct. 29, 2000 Cal Ripken Jr., 40, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles who played in a record 2,632 Major League games in a row, was at Blair County Ballpark in Lakemont to check it out after investing in a minor league and baseball teaching academy in his hometown of Aberdeen, Md. 10 years ago: Oct. 29, 2015 A Canadian-born Hare Krishna monk ...

All set for spooky season

Jason and Christina Shade of Bellwood are ready for the borough’s trick or treat night coming up this Thursday. Photo courtesy Christina Shade

Across the area

HUNTINGDON Juniata College to host lecture The Office of the Provost at Juniata College will host its annual Calvert Ellis Lecture to be given by Richard Kiely. His talk, “Lessons learned from the field: Cultivating transformative community and global engagement,” will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in the Ellis Ballroom at Ellis Hall. Kiely is the associate vice provost for engagement and land grant affairs and director of academic initiatives in the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement at Cornell University. The Calvert N. Ellis Memorial Lectureship was established in ...

Blair Garden Club to meet Oct. 27

Across the area Blair Garden Club to meet Oct. 27 The Blair Garden Club will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, at the American Legion Post 516 Social Hall, 1501 N. Juniata St., Hollidaysburg. The program is “Bird Town PA” with Heidi Shriver, president of this organization. It will focus on making a sustainable environment for birds, wildlife and people. PARSE to hold holiday luncheon Nov. 18 The Pennsylvania Association of Retired State Employees, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon Chapter 1-10, holiday luncheon will take place at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, at Prime Sirloin ...