Flag Day may be one of the lesser national holidays, but it’s pretty big in Altoona. Every year on June 14, the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation works with city government to hold an event commemorating the holiday in Heritage Plaza, from where one can look up 14th Street to Gospel ...
Mid-1980s Altoona Hospital School of Nursing graduate Carol Ruffley nursed a feeling of disappointment for years after that school closed in 1996. The announcement last year that successor hospital UPMC Altoona would revive the institution in the form of a UPMC Mercy School of Nursing ...
A new Senate bill overhauls the way aviation is funded in Pennsylvania. Senate Bill 1365 sponsored by Sen. Daniel Laughlin, R-Erie, with bipartisan support creates a state Aviation Trust Fund with dedicated revenue to pay for airport improvements, service expansion, growth of new technology and workforce development. SB1365 draws revenue from 0.425% of state sales tax revenue, a hike in aviation fuel taxes, taxes on emerging aviation fuels such as hydrogen and electric power, higher license and inspection fees and federal funding. The new money would go to improve terminals, runways, ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Philadelphia man who trafficked high-potency fentanyl packets in Altoona was sentenced Thursday afternoon to 30 to 180 months’ incarceration after pleading guilty to all charges across his four separate but related cases. Amir Ishan Palmer-Kennedy, 21, faced a total of ...
The Jaffa Shriners will celebrate the official listing of their Broad Avenue headquarters on the National Register of Historic Places during a special ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 14. The event will be held in the building’s banquet hall and will feature the unveiling of a bronze plaque commemorating this milestone. The public is invited to attend the ceremony. Guided tours of the Jaffa Shrine headquarters will be offered immediately following the plaque unveiling. The Jaffa Shrine received its charter in the summer of 1903. In 1910, the organization dedicated its first ...
A federal appeals court last week ruled that a former magistrate judge serving in the U.S. District Court in Johnstown erred when he failed to appoint an attorney to represent an immigrant who sought damages for an injury to his leg and back when he was housed at the Moshannon Valley ...
