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Area: AMWA to host geology program

EBENSBURG The Allegheny Mountain Woodland Association will present “How Geology and Topography Affect Forest Management” from 9 to 11 a.m. Sept. 12 at the Ebensburg Borough Building Meeting Room, 300 W. High St. Scott Weikert, a forest resources educator with Penn State Extension, will discuss how local geology and topography affect soils, water, tree species and forest management decisions. Weikert has worked with Penn State Extension for 20 years, providing education for forest landowners, forestry professionals and the wood products industry. The program is free and open to the ...

Patton house fire under investigation

PATTON — An early morning house fire along Glendale Lake Road in Clearfield Township caused school buses to reroute on their way to and from the Cambria Heights middle and high school campus Friday morning, officials said. The abandoned house, located at 134 Glendale Lake Road, just ...

Blair commissioners urged to be pro-active on data centers

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Representatives for Indivisible Blair County urged commissioners Thursday to explore options as to how they can play a role in controlling the potential development of data centers. Blair County has a lot of rural farmland that could be vulnerable for such development, Indivisible Blair County President Carol Taylor of Altoona told commissioners during their weekly meeting where she referenced concerns about water and energy usage, noise, emissions and displacement. “What could we do proactively,” she asked commissioners to consider. Indivisible Blair County ...

Municipalities sign NDAs to host data center projects

In nearly half of municipalities hosting the state’s most prominent data center projects, local public officials or staff signed non-disclosure agreements with companies, a dynamic that is fueling concerns that the public’s access to information is being compromised. Public records ...

McKee led tight-knit group of rail enthusiasts

Larry McKee of Altoona, a railroad history, photography, movie and circus aficionado who died last month at 83, was an only child who never married and never had children. But it isn’t true that McKee was without family, according to Joe DeFrancesco, executive director of the Altoona ...

Teen charged in stabbing

Authorities released police bodycam footage Thursday showing the discovery of a Pennsylvania college student’s body that led to the arrest of her boyfriend, who said in court documents that a “demon” told him to stab her. The boyfriend’s mother, meanwhile, is accused of helping him cover up the crime, according to state police. Royce Moser, 18, of North Strabane Township, faces a homicide charge in the death of Karoline Heintz, a student at PennWest Cali­fornia University whose body was found Aug. 20 after she failed to return to the southwestern Pennsylvania college, ...