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Residents ask Altoona City Council to help with noise from business

Two Eldorado-area residents made a hesitant complaint to City Council Monday about noise they say has been emanating from an industrial facility in their neighborhood — a facility they did not identify, not wanting to cause issues for the business that operates it. The noise is a recording ...

State lawmaker pins blame for skill games failure on Capitol

A multi-year push to legalize so-called “skill games” being operating in clubs, bars and other small organizations around Pennsylvania may be over, and Rep. Russ Diamond said Monday “there are lots of people to blame and most of them work in the Capitol.” The statement from Diamond, a Lebanon County Republican, came after the Supreme Court on Friday denied formal requests to extend a deadline it set for Tuesday allowing the machines to operate legally. After Tuesday, the court’s stay on its previously issued order that found the devices to be illegal slot machines will ...

‘The Wizard of Oz’ lands at the Mishler Theatre

There’s no place like home, or as P&J Productions likes to call it, the Benzel Stage at the Mishler Theatre, where “The Wizard of Oz” will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 16 and 17, and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 18. “It’s a beautiful theater, and it’s a relatively small theater so that ...

Motor vehicle accident claims Hopewell woman

A Bedford County woman was killed in a motor vehicle accident Sunday afternoon. Sylvia Harding, 82, of Hopewell, was driving a Toyota Corolla south on Raystown Road, just south of Old Shadyside Road, in Hopewell Township, Bedford County, about 2:30 p.m. Sunday. A Chevrolet Silverado towing a ...

Spring Cove School District receives single application for vacant board seat

ROARING SPRING — With only one Spring Cove School District resident applying to fill a board vacancy, the school board plans to interview them at the voting meeting on Oct. 19. School officials still have until Oct. 21 — 30 days since former member Kevin Smith resigned from the board — ...