MARTINSBURG — Agriculture isn’t just about cows and crops. Area schools took their seventh grade students to the AG Career Day event held Wednesday and Thursday at Morrisons Cove Memorial Park to learn more about jobs in agriculture, including technology and food science. In Blair ...
The two most popular forms of public, personal, written communications are bumper stickers and T-shirt slogans. Everyone has seen a child wearing a T-shirt that proclaims, “My Parents (or Grandparents) Visited (pick a place — the Grand Canyon, Atlantic City, wherever) and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt.” Cute, eh? Can a T-shirt slogan undermine democracy? The Urban Outfitters Company produced a youth-oriented, silk-screened T-shirt that boasted “Voting is for OLD PEOPLE.” The media and pundit class jumped all over the company for discouraging voting by 18-29 year olds. ...
A Blair County judge granted a bail modification request Friday in the case of the 71-year-old city man whose detention left him bruised and bloody, allegedly at the hands of the arresting officer. James Paul Kuhn was taken into custody by Altoona police on July 13 after a turn signal ...
State Sen. Wayne Langerholc Jr., R-Cambria, Centre and Clearfield, invites area veterans to register for his annual Veterans Appreciation Breakfasts, being held in October and November this year. Veterans in Clearfield and Centre counties are invited to register for the breakfast being held at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at VFW Post 1785, 1145 Industrial Park Road, Clearfield. Doors open at 8 a.m. Interested veterans are asked to register by Oct. 14. Veterans in Cambria County are invited to register for the breakfast being held on at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at the Young Peoples ...
The Mirror is seeking nominations for its 2026 Season of Sharing recipient. Started in 2005, Season of Sharing uses the reach of the local newspaper and altoonamirror.com, the expertise of the Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation and residents’ generosity to benefit area ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A quartet of kids arrived at school in style Thursday morning, rolling up to Charles W. Longer Elementary in a Phoenix Volunteer Fire Department fire truck and a Hollidaysburg Police Department car. “It was fun, and it was a little bit bumpy,” said 6-year-old Kairo ...
