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Students receive Bozella scholarships

During the 75th Gallitzin Alumni Association Dinner on Sunday, Sept. 6, the Denis T. Bozella Memorial Scholarship was awarded to two well deserving graduates. The recipients were Hannah McMahon, Cresson, and Marley Shaffer, Lilly. Hannah McMahon is a 2026 Bishop Carroll graduate, she will continue her learning career at Mount Aloysius College in Cresson, pursuing a major in the field of nursing. Hannah is the daughter of Leann Eberhart, also supported by her grandmother Debbie McMahon and great grandmother Carol Sylvester. Marley Shaffer is a 2026 Penn Cambria graduate, she ...

Honors lists

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY, Manchester, N.H. — President’s list, summer term: Leah Riley, Hollidaysburg; Gabriel Havelind, Houtzdale; Jeffrey Speicher, Martinsburg; Heather Ressler, Clearfield; Chelsey Witherite, Curwensville; Ethan Michael, Clearfield; Sheila Litzenberger, Altoona; Barbara Vice, Clearfield; Shirley Nash, Altoona; Maria Mease, Mount Union; Jake Spencer, Clearfield; Cameron Irvin, Tyrone; Sophia Marker, Huntingdon; Robert Russell, Curwensville; Victoria Wynter, Northern Cambria; Alexis Starr, Altoona; Ayanna Wheland, Warriors Mark; Lindsey Settlemyer, Altoona; ...

Mirror seeks homecoming photographs

Homecoming committees can email photos of homecoming kings and queens to community@altoonamirror.com. Please include their names and school. For more information, contact Brenda Carberry, community news coordinator, at 814-946-7459. Photos will be published as space allows.

Cub Scouts set open house

Cub Scout Pack 30 of Duncansville will host an open house from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, at Hicks Church, 1211 Third Ave. Cub Scouts is open to any boy in kindergarten to fifth grade. Older boys up to age 17 are welcome to learn about the Scout troop from 7:15 to 8 p.m. that same evening.

Tyrone student wins poster contest on soil

State winner advances to nationals The Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts and the Blair County Conservation District announced the seventh- to ninth-grade winner of the 2026 “Soil. Where it all Begins” statewide poster contest is from Blair County. To celebrate the ...

Discovery Space invites classrooms to name its baby bamboo shark

STATE COLLEGE –– Discovery Space is inviting K-12 classrooms across Pennsylvania to help name the newest resident of its Marine Life Center: a juvenile White-Spotted Bamboo Shark. Through a community-wide naming contest, students will have the opportunity to help shape the next chapter of Discovery Space’s Marine Life Center. The bamboo shark arrives through Discovery Space’s ongoing partnership with Electric City Aquarium & Reptile Den in Scranton, a collaboration that allows Discovery Space to raise juvenile marine animals until they are ready to transition to Electric City ...