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Bellwood-Antis School Board approves budget with tax hike

BELLWOOD — Members of the Bellwood-Antis School Board unanimously approved their balanced budget Tuesday night, including a 2.99% tax increase for the 2026-27 school year. The tax increase will raise the district’s millage rate to 12.0589, totaling about $12.06 per $1,000 of assessed property value. According to business manager Greg Gates, the district’s revenue total $22,902,031, and its expenditures total $22,886,588, resulting in a $15,443 surplus. Although the preliminary budget approved at the May meeting featured a $61 surplus, Gates said the district recently received ...

City man offered plea deal in teen sexual assault case

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A city man accused of sexually assaulting two teenage coworkers has been offered a plea deal and given until July 20 to mull it over. Justin Tyler Nunamaker, 28, is facing single felony counts of aggravated indecent assault without consent and corruption of minors, a ...

Huntingdon County DUI upheld by appeals court

A motorist who was upset that he was denied admission into Huntingdon County’s Accelerated Rehabilitation Disposition program has lost his appeal before the Pennsylvania Superior Court, according to an opinion issued Friday. Morgan Ewell Falzone, 32, of Smithfield, Va., was pulled over by ...

City man gets up to 10 years for assault, strangulation

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A city man who whipped a woman with a belt before using it to strangle her was sentenced Tuesday to five- to 10-years’ incarceration in a state correctional institution. Chigemezu Nnachetam Nwigwe, 26, accepted the deal offered by the Blair County District Attorney’s ...

U.S. Steel pledges up to $2.5B in upgrades to Mon Valley Works

U.S. Steel plans to invest up to $2.5 billion into upgrades to its Mon Valley Works, which it forecasts will generate $1.7 billion for the state, according to a Monday report from the steelmaking giant. The economic impact is expected to include the combined dollars spent on things such as wages and construction costs associated with the upgrades, according to the report. The investment will preserve the roughly 3,000 jobs at Mon Valley Works and create nearly 3,200 indirect and induced jobs over a three-year period, according to the report. The company projects the upgrade work will ...

Porch fire damages city house

A fire in a space between the underside of the second floor porch and the ceiling of the first floor porch at the rear of an apartment house on the 2200 block of Broad Avenue on Tuesday afternoon caused about $400 in damage, according to city Fire Chief Adam Free. The fire was called in as a dwelling fire with possible entrapment. A resident of the apartment house suppressed the blaze with a fire extinguisher, then firefighters finished the job after running a hose to the back of the apartment house, according to Free and city police officer Christy Wasser. Fire inspector Justin ...