Breaking News

Go+TV planner — June 20-21

Saturday, June 20 The Altoona Symphony Orchestra will perform a Star Spangled Symphony concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at PNG Field. The gates will open at 6:30 for pre-concert entertainment. Admission is free. Tony Sands will bring the “Rat Pack Together Again” to Altoona’s ...

In ‘Toy Story 5,’ it’s (digital) apocalypse now for toys

The “Toy Story” movies, like “Star Wars” and those games Michael Jordan played with the Washington Wizards, pose a problem of canon. The first three movies are a near-perfect trilogy: a series that spanned a childhood: from bedroom playtime to college, from enchantment to loss. The ...

Getting ready

Josiah Adams of the Everett Railroad scrubs down the side of a passenger car at the Hollidaysburg Station on Thursday afternoon in preparation of the Ice Cream Special excursion on Saturday and the Father’s Day Steam into the Cove excursion on Sunday. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

In the news on this date: June 19

Local history 50 years ago: June 19, 1976 Altoona Mayor William C. Stouffer and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wissinger cut the ribbon for the opening of a new Western Auto Family Store in the Wissinger Shopping Village at 31st Street and Walnut Avenue. 25 years ago: June 19, 2001 Burgmeier Hauling and Recycling became the largest trash hauler in Blair County by buying out Waste Systems International of Wilmington, Del. (WSI), which had filed for bankruptcy. 10 years ago: June 19, 2016 A full house of residents attended an Antis Township commissioners meeting in Bellwood to protest the ...

Spreading out

Ben Yahner of Yahner Brothers Farms, Patton, sprays a corn field with herbicide along Colonel Drake Highway south of Patton on Tuesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski