A fire early Saturday destroyed a pair of attached barns at the Frederick Dairy Farm in Martinsburg RD, but farm employees and firefighters were able to save all but one of more than 600 cows that were housed in two other nearby barns threatened by the blaze. Farm owner Eric Frederick was ...
TYRONE — As part of the Irish Heritage celebration, the Tyrone History Museum will reopen its doors Saturday and Sunday for the first time since last year. According to Bob Dollar, the Tyrone Area Historical Society’s president, there’s never been a better time to visit the museum than ...
The contractor that recently renovated the Bellwood Dam for the Altoona Water Authority has sued the authority for $8.9 million, an amount over and above the contracted price of $20.6 million, alleging that it’s due that sum because of delays, uncompensated additional work and redesigns, all ...
Just like the waterfalls for which Burket Falls Farm is named, David C. Burket Sr. was gentle, full of life and always moving in the same direction. That’s how his son John Burket remembered his father, who passed away at 93 on March 6 at his home on the family farm where he was born. ...
Two additional inmates have reached out in the past week to the U.S. District Court in Johnstown as a way to address their grievances with living conditions in the Blair County Prison. One of the inmates, Dwight L. Gray Jr., 41, of Altoona, stated he was seeking a Medication-Assisted Treatment ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Blair County District Attorney’s Office was urged Thursday to provide “any and all” discovery to the defense in the case of a city man accused of providing the drugs that led to the overdose death of 40-year-old Christy Clifford in April 2025. Danny Lee Caldwell ...