Park Hills expands entertainment options

Park Hills is expanding its entertainment options in the Altoona market. The expansion will add three state-of-the-art golf simulators to their offerings of entertainment, which includes an 18-hole golf course, dining, bar and banquet space.

The simulator room will feature full-service dining, a full-service bar, ample televisions to watch your favorite sporting events and retail space featuring Callaway golf apparel and merchandise.

“We are thrilled to announce the expansion of the golf simulator room at Park Hills,” said Dennis Shreve, general manager. “We have found great success in the Altoona area with our beautiful golf course and look forward to providing the community the ability to practice their golf game year-round.”

Park Hills was formerly a private club, yet today is open to the public. Golf play memberships are available, but the facility is open to the public for golf and dining year-round.

Renovations were completed by Leonard S. Fiore Construction, Altoona, and operational consulting services were provided by Hospitality Asset Management Co., State College.

Peoples rate to remain steady

Customers of Peoples Natural Gas will pay about the same for their gas.

Effective today, the quarterly adjusted gas cost commodity rate will remain the same at $3.37 per mcf.

A residential customer who uses 80,000 cubic feet per year, or 6.7 mcf per month, will see a monthly bill of $81, said Carol Scanlon, Peoples manager of rates.

The commodity gas cost is a straight dollar-for-dollar pass through from Peoples to the customers, thus Peoples does not profit from the gas cost commodity rate, Scanlon said.

Peoples serves about 31,200 customers in Blair County.

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SFU recognized

Saint Francis University was ranked

No. 30 in the “Best Regional Universities” in the North category, compiled by U.S. News & World Report.

The university also earned a spot at No. 38 (tied) in the “Top Performers in Social Mobility” list for supporting economically disadvantaged students in achieving academic success. This ranking reflects U.S. News’ emphasis on outcome-based performance measures.