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Blair County assessment appeal deadline nearing

HOLLIDAYSBURG — The annual deadline for Blair County property owners to appeal a property’s assessed value — a figure used in computing real estate taxes — is being adjusted this year to Monday, Aug. 3. The annual deadline is typically Aug. 1, but because that’s a Saturday, this year’s deadline was extended, Blair County Commissioner Laura Burke announced Thursday during the weekly commissioners’ meeting. To appeal a property’s assessed value, the county requires owners complete an assessment appeal form which is available on its website at www.blairco.org and at the ...

Blair County awards $1.4 million road repair contract for County Road 104

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County commissioners on Thursday awarded a $1.4 million contract for replacement of County Road 104, also known as the Cranberry Road Rehabilitation Project in North Woodbury Township. Commissioners Amy Webster and Laura Burke voted Thursday to award the contract to Grannas Bros., which submitted the lowest of three bids. The other two bids came from New Enterprise Stone & Lime, at $1.49 million, and Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc., $1.59 million. Webster, when recently describing the project, said it will progress in phases and involve excavating about a foot deep to ...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and over a dozen of his colleagues in the upper chamber have re-upped their calls to end the federal ban of marijuana. On Tuesday, Fetterman’s office sent out a press release announcing his support for the reintroduction of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, which he said would remove cannabis from the list of federally controlled substances and, as a result, empower states to create their own laws. “I’ve always been very pro-weed,” Fetterman said. “In a very libertarian slant: I’m not going to judge anyone for using it to ...

Rising stars

Penn Cambria’s Rising Stars Youth Football camp for kindergarten through sixth grade students wrapped up its third and final day Wednesday in Lilly. The camp is led by the Penn Cambria varsity football coaching staff, led by coach Jason Grassi, and the varsity football players, completing ...

Second man gets life in prison for role in Clearfield bombing

JOHNSTOWN -- A second Clearfield County man convicted in a 2019 bombing that killed 34-year-old Shawna Carlson of Clearfield was sentenced Wednesday afternoon to life in prison. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines imposed Kris J. Nevling's sentence and told him that she was appalled by his ...

Convicted killer gets life in prison for killing of Altoona man

EBENSBURG — The family of an Altoona man brutally killed in May 2023 told convicted killer Austin Louis Kline, 26, that he was a monster who should “rot in hell.” Kline showed no emotion during Wednesday’s proceedings, in which Judge Tamara Bernstein handed down a sentence of life in ...