It’s a story with covered wagons and one room schoolhouses, but showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine says the “Little House on the Prairie” remake for Netflix still speaks to today’s American dream. The show, premiering Thursday and set in the late 1800s, follows the Ingalls family led by ...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — When Vietnamese athlete Nguyen Thanh Hien Linh stepped into her first virtual taekwondo competition in Singapore in 2024, she had little idea what she was doing. “I was just kicking into the air,” recalled the 21-year-old. Despite her background as an elite ...
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Local history 50 years ago: July 10, 1974 At the Farmer’s Day Parade in Williamsburg, two donkeys pulling an old-fashioned corn planter was a highlight of the event. Williamsburg’s Bicentennial Week ended that day with a farmer’s market and an arts and crafts show. 25 years ago: July 10, 1999 The 68-year-old Hab’s Bar & Cafe (1933) on 16th Street and 19th Avenue in Altoona, a popular family bar that served only beer and not liquor, was closing. Owner Hab Kattouf had died in 1990 and had previously operated a confectionary store at that location. 10 years ago: July 10, ...
Missy Kinney of Clinton County feeds her 3-month-old daughter Scarlett under a tent during the visit of Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 locomotive at Norfolk Southern’s Rose Yard in Altoona on Thursday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
