Parent Carrie Chuff of Hollidaysburg draws a greeting Monday morning for those attending Meet the Teacher Night at Charles W. Longer Elementary School in the evening. Other parents, teachers and students will add their own greetings for Wednesday’s first day of school for the ...
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Penn State Altoona freshman T.J. Wleh (right), 18, of Baltimore gets help from Welcome Team member Malachi Brown of Philadelphia during move-in day on Friday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
Local history 50 years ago: Explorer Scouts Sue Stiffler and Traci Gibbony of Post 123, sponsored by Altoona Hospital, took part in a High Adventure Ecology Workshop at Camp Bucuco near Butler. Twenty-three Scouts from nine states took part. Instructors were professors from Slippery Rock State College. 25 years ago: Norfolk Southern Railroad, which planned to close the Hollidaysburg Car Shops in October, gave transfer assignments to the supervisors and managers there, spokesman Rudy Husband announced. 10 years ago: The Blair County Commissioners agreed to raise the ...
Steve and Darlene Gority of Altoona recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. A party is being planned for Oct. 17 at the Cesare Battisti. They were married Aug. 14, 1976. Mrs. Gority is the former Darlene Rader. The couple have two sons: Justin (Melanie) of Altoona and Blake ...
NEW YORK — Barbara Kingsolver, Percival Everett and Daniel Kraus will be among the authors and other Pulitzer Prize-winning artists and journalists participating in a 20-city touring exhibition jointly organized by the Pulitzers and the American Library Association. “Pulitzer on the ...
