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Steve Brumbaugh paints above the garage on his daughter's home on Lyndale Road in Altoona on Tuesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
Voter roll upkeep draws attention
Doing upkeep on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls is usually a low-key job attracting little public attention. But the Department of State is raising the profile on the ongoing effort to have accurate rolls in advance of the mid-term election in November. “Maintaining accurate voter registration lists is essential to ensuring free, fair, safe and secure elections,” said Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt. “Pennsylvania’s county election officials follow carefully prescribed legal procedures to keep voter rolls current while protecting eligible voters from being improperly ...
Hollidaysburg teacher Carol Scarbro shares love of learning with students
The path to becoming a teacher was never clear for Hollidaysburg resident Carol Scarbro. Until she was required to student teach for a college elective, using the elementary teacher’s angles lesson, she crafted aerodynamic paper planes with two disinterested students. She was then ...
Regional identities shape Pennsylvanians
Ask Pennsylvanians to name where in the state they hail from, and you’ll get a range of responses. Linda McKee, a DuBois resident who grew up in Titusville, divides the commonwealth into six neat regions: northwest, north-central, northeast, southeast, south-central and southwest. So for ...
Court refuses to hear Four Quarters case
In an unusual move, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has refused to hear a Bedford County case because only part of a lawsuit brought against the Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary in Artemas has been resolved. An opinion issued Thursday by the Pennsylvania Superior Court indicated that ...
Bedford receives $3.4M for development, training
Bedford County has received $3.38 million in Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program funding for workforce training and housing development. The funding includes $2 million for the Bedford County Technical Center to expand its workforce training facilities and $1.38 million for the Bedford County Development Association to prepare infrastructure for a new workforce housing neighborhood near the Bette Brown Slayton Business Park. The investments are part of the county’s Train and Retain initiative, which aims to address two major challenges facing local employers: ...