By the time Andy Bater held up a big map of the Gregg Township region during testimony to a state board on Wednesday, Pennsylvania’s farmers had already raised a red flag over the frenzy to build data centers. The previous day, the board of the 24,000-member Pennsylvania Farm Bureau had ...
The Altoona Blair County Development Corp. has opened a request for qualifications and concept proposals for a redevelopment opportunity of the Gable’s building, with an Oct. 1 deadline. In January, ABCD Corp. purchased the building with the goal of directing the next steps through a local ...
For those of you old enough to remember George Burns, you might remember the movie “Oh God” in which he portrayed God. If you don’t remember it or have not seen it, look it up; it was very well done. Funny, inspirational, thought-provoking and entertaining for the whole family. Of course it was made before movies were all about gruesome killings, constant explosions, violence or people having casual sex. By today’s present standards, it might not be considered popular, but I enjoyed it and I think you will too. In any event, George Burns portrayed God who makes contact with an ...
I always admired my wife because of her ability to know a little bit about everything, but a recent trip by her to the West Coast for a week really made me appreciate her more than anything. She runs the household with a firm hand and a memory like no other, which is fine because my hands are not steady and my ability to recall past events is starting to go at age 61. In fact, if someone asks us about something we did in the past, I ask her if I had a good time, and she doesn’t like … I either did or I didn’t. The woman is incapable of lying. In fact, because I am good at it, I ...
Calvary Cemetery grounds crew member Jamie Maybush weeds a bed of flowers along Pleasant Valley Boulevard in Altoona on Monday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
Federal District Judge Joy Flowers Conti in an order issued Wednesday vacated the death sentence imposed on a former Altoona man for the February 2004 murder of his then-girlfriend. Andre Staton, 63, will now be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Staton is presently incarcerated in ...
