Altoona must pay a total of about $7.7 million toward its three employee pension funds for next year, according to annual Minimum Municipal Obligation calculations made recently by city Finance Director Jim Gehret. The calculations follow a formula set by the state’s Act 205 of 1984 and ...
Several attendees at a City Council meeting Monday praised city officials for their quick termination last month of a code officer who had posted a Facebook comment that suggested that the Altoona Area School District could avoid the need to enforce a clear bag policy for sporting events by ...
JOHNSTOWN — With graduation on the horizon, about 600 high school and college students considered different careers at the 24th annual Cambria County college fair. Junior student Kendall Korhut of Conemaugh Township Area School District is benefiting from talking with school ...
CRESSON — The Penn Cambria School District is one step closer to making its proposed stadium revitalization initiative a reality after an anonymous donor pledged $500,000 to the cause, bringing the district’s pledged total to slightly more than $1.5 million. Superintendent Jaime Hartline ...
Pennsylvania officials have reported a fourth measles-associated death. The latest death involved an 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County, in the center of the state, the county coroner’s office said in a Facebook post. The cause was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare and severe neurological complication of measles, it said. On Saturday, a 40-year-old woman from Jefferson County, a rural area in western Pennsylvania, died of measles complications. And last month, two measles-infected infants died in Lancaster County, in the southeastern part of the state. None of the ...
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) warns that rapidly growing demand for electric power fueled by data centers can create serious supply risks. The PUC released an independent analysis conducted by Synapse Energy Economics this week finding that the current load forecast for the regional electric grid will fail to meet the reliability standard set by grid operator PJM starting next year. By 2030, the model for reliability risk is nearly six times worse than PJM’s planning standard, the PUC said. “This result is mainly due to large-load additions stemming from data ...
