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State game commission seeks info on poached deer

The Pennsylvania Game Commission-Southcentral Region is seeking information related to the illegal taking of a 6-point buck that was found along Egolf Road, Colerain Township, Bedford County, on the morning of Sunday, June 28. According to the report announced on the Game Commission’s Facebook page, a black pickup truck was traveling south on Egolf Road about 1:30 a.m., when the occupants shot the deer. A nearby resident, awakened by the gunshot, saw the truck idling adjacent to where the carcass was discovered the following morning, the report states. Investigators conducted a ...

Blair County seeking volunteers for boards

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County leaders are encouraging local residents to consider serving on a county authority, board or commission/committee. “We like to welcome new faces and new ideas to our boards and commissions,” Commissioner Amy Webster said at Thursday’s weekly commissioners meeting when directing residents to complete a talent bank application on the county’s website, www.blairco.org. Commissioners typically consider appointments to various boards at the beginning and end of a calendar year, but they also fill vacancies on an as-needed basis. Information on the ...

Good clean fun

Nariah Wilkinson, 3, plays in the foam during Evergreen Manors’ annual Back to School Bash for residents on Friday. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski See more photos from the event here.

GOP lawmaker: Data center speculation ‘a problem’

It is roughly 700 acres of beautiful, forested land in the Pocono Mountains, and in Rep. Doyle Heffley’s mind, it is the last place people would want to see the construction of a data center. But that is exactly the concept being floated by a developer in Penn Forest Township, Carbon County. To Heffley, it is the sort of proposal that Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro was talking about Tuesday when he signed an executive order seeking safeguards on data center development, and lambasted what he described as speculative troublemakers in the industry. “It is a huge problem,” said ...

Submissions sought for Blair County Proud

When a helping hand is needed, service organizations are there — to provide food to those who are hungry, to offer shelter to those in need, to offer a shoulder to lean on or to simply listen. These groups make Blair County special — and make us proud. The Mirror is seeking help to ...