Center for Community Action to become Blair County Prison Re-entry Coalition fiduciary

October 1, 2026

The Center for Community Action has agreed to become a fiduciary for the Blair County Prison Re-entry Coalition. As fiduciary, the CCA can help the coalition raise money, while becoming the repository for donations and other coalition income — with those donations being tax-deductible because the CCA is a 501(c)(3) organization, according to coalition officials and center Executive Director Wendy Melius. Coalition officials plan to meet with Melius to work out guidelines for how coalition representatives can forward money to the center and for how the center will disburse funds to ...

Sheetz opens $169 million distribution facility in Ohio

October 1, 2026

A new $169 million Sheetz food manufacturing and distribution center in Findlay, Ohio, will begin operations Oct. 11. On Tuesday, local, regional and state leaders officially cut the ribbon on the new facility, which will create more than 750 jobs over the next five years and bring new ...

Logan Township probe leads to case in South Africa

October 1, 2026

A Logan Township police investigation last year into suspected prostitution and human trafficking activity in Blair County resulted in a New York man’s guilty plea last week in federal court. While 59-year-old Mark Behrje pleaded guilty Sept. 17 to a federal charge of receiving and ...

Rhodes Meat Market in Morrisons Cove to be sold

October 1, 2026

MARTINSBURG — A long­­time Morrisons Cove family business is being sold. Rhodes Meat Market, founded in 1938 by Glenn and Mabel Rhodes, is being sold to Premium Fresh Market LLC, according to the Rhodes Facebook page. “We are excited to announce that we have a prospective buyer, ...

Model citizens: Model train association helps to keep city’s railroad culture alive

September 30, 2026

If you asked 100 model train enthusiasts what makes the hobby special, you would never get the same answer twice — and that is especially true at the Altoona Association of Model Railroaders, whose members have spent more than 75 years helping to keep the city’s train culture ...

Taylor Township plans meeting on proposed data center

September 30, 2026

Taylor Township will hold a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Roaring Spring Fire Hall on a proposed amendment to the township’s subdivision and land development ordinance (SALDO) designed to ensure that a proposed data center for the former Appvion paper mill site will not cause ...