Back to School Bash
Kyan Weibley, 9, peeks out of a rail car from Charlie’s Doggy Express, Pinecroft, during Evergreen Manors’ annual Back to School Bash for residents on Friday. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
Blair County puts $10,000 deposit toward prison land purchase
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County has made a $10,000 deposit toward purchasing the Duncansville area land where a new prison could be built but the process of acquiring the property continues to move slowly. “We’re probably not going to be able to close (the sale) by the end of the month,” ...
German exchange student’s ties to Bishop Guilfoyle stand test of time
Former German exchange student Michael Schaefer and the Sanker family of Altoona became family by chance and friends by choice. As Bishop Guilfoyle’s first exchange student during the 1965-66 school year, Schaefer quickly became the eighth child in the Sanker family during his stay in ...
Data cards retrieved from air collision
CARLISLE — Federal investigators have pulled intact data cards from a state police helicopter and Cessna plane that collided at a small airport in central Pennsylvania, killing the plane’s pilot. Aaron McCarter, investigator-in-charge with the National Transportation Safety Board, called ...
Overdose Awareness Day expands
The local observance of International Overdose Awareness Day this year will be spread over the last 11 days of August, as local people remember and honor loved ones who have died of substance use disorder. A newly conceived version of the event will take place at Penn State Altoona on Aug. ...
Judge orders hearing in alleged parole violation for man who doxxed two on Facebook
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Blair County judge ordered a hearing be scheduled for the presentation of testimony regarding alleged probation violations in the case of the city man who doxxed two individuals on Facebook and encouraged others to rob them in February 2025. Randolph Delozier, 63, has been ...