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Kids therapy provider leaves Easter Seals building on Valley View Boulevard

A therapy provider for kids with disabilities has quit leasing the Easter Seals building on Valley View Boulevard as a venue for those services, so that it can save money, disappointing the parents of some of its child patients. Procare had been losing significant money on the arrangement, due to low reimbursements from Medicaid, but had been off-setting some of those losses through a contract under which it provided daytime therapy for students of an area school, according to Procare Partner/ Director Jim Foreman. That unnamed school, however, recently cut ties with Procare, so that ...

Altoona woman pleads guilty to charges of embezzlement

A city woman who served as the secretary-treasurer for the American Postal Workers Union Local 776 plead guilty Tuesday to federal embezzlement charges after a yearslong investigation into union financial records revealed about $50,000 in misappropriated funds. Nicole DeStefano, 52, appeared ...

Former State Correctional Institution Huntingdon inmate loses appeal

A former inmate at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon has lost his argument before the Pennsylvania Superior Court that his mental incompetence caused him to file an untimely petition seeking a correction in the sentence he was serving for possession of a weapon while in ...

Williamsburg Community School Board weighs removing trees at elementary school

WILLIAMSBURG — Dead trees and the costs associated with removing them was a topic of discussion for the Williamsburg Community School Board on Tuesday evening. The trees behind the elementary playground are dead and the equipment area has been closed for safety reasons, as some of those dead trees fell into the playground over the summer. Board members spent time discussing the pros and cons, and the price tag, of removing only the problem trees or clearing out a 30- to 40-foot section, starting around the basketball court along the back woods and around the kindergarten ...

On the level

Shea Fleck of Butler Restoration, Altoona, removes brick pavers under the Devorris Pavilion at Heritage Plaza in Altoona for leveling on Tuesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Spring Cove School Board member resigns

ROARING SPRING — The Spring Cove School Board, during Monday night’s meeting, discussed the resignation of member Kevin Smith, who attributed his exit to ongoing issues with a fellow board member. Smith resigned from the board effective Aug. 26 because of statements shared by board member ...