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Running on empty: Farmers eye high diesel fuel costs as fall harvest underway

With the fall harvest underway, farmers not only have to keep an eye on the weather, they’re keeping an eye on their bottom line as high diesel fuel prices cut into any anticipated profits. The price for diesel fuel used by farmers to operate their equipment stands at about $6.55 a gallon, ...

Future uncertain for skill games

HARRISBURG — Skill games are beginning to disappear from businesses and social clubs across Pennsylvania after state lawmakers let this week’s court-imposed deadline pass without action. In June, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the estimated 70,000 skill games across the ...

Hollidaysburg Area School Board ‘disappointed’ by notice of strike vote

The Hollidaysburg Area School Board said Friday it was “disappointed” to receive notice that the teachers’ union “feels the need to go to a strike authorization” due to stalled contract negotiations, district Superintendent Curtis Whitesel wrote in a statement. The Hollidaysburg ...

Altoona Redevelopment Authority aims to recruit Penn State Altoona students

The staff of the city Redevelopment Authority is trying to recruit Geographic Information Systems students from Penn State Altoona to help the authority meet one of the requirements for an Urban Redevelopment Area that would comprise Juniata’s downtown, a wider section of the city centered on the tracks through the main downtown as far as 28th Street; and the Knickerbocker rowhomes. The students would analyze the exterior condition of commercial buildings in those areas, providing information to complement an analysis of residential buildings done by consultant czb a couple years ...

Bellwood-Antis High School juniors conduct survey on AI

BELLWOOD — Curious about how artificial intelligence is changing education, two Bellwood-Antis juniors conducted a survey on AI use in school and presented their findings during Tuesday’s school board meeting. The school board’s student representatives — Sophia Fatzinger and Cora ...

Altoona nonprofit Selfless Solutions celebrates first graduating class

Selfless Solutions recently celebrated its first student group to graduate from primary school since the nonprofit’s inception. Founded in 2019 by Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School alumnus Patrick Irwin, the program relies on donations from across the country to sponsor education ...