HOLLIDAYSBURG — Students and teachers alike light up when Foot of Ten Elementary School’s therapy dog Callie walks through the doors. “Callie brings me peace,” fifth grader Kandace Peppetti said. “When I’m struggling on a test, she makes me feel calm. She makes me feel like I ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County leaders breathed a sigh of relief earlier this week after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a proposal introducing new rules for voting by mail in the November election. The court’s ruling means Blair and other Pennsylvania counties can continue following ...
TYRONE — About 7% of the borough’s population has weighed in on Tyrone’s future since officials launched a survey Monday for the next comprehensive plan. Mayor John Harlow said he called the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development when he came into office earlier ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — One of the four individuals taken into custody in June 2025 for trafficking narcotics out of a Fifth Avenue residence was admitted into the disposition in lieu of trial program during Blair County plea court Friday morning. Altoona resident Heather Joy McConahay, 38, is facing three felony counts of possession with intent to deliver, a felony count of criminal conspiracy to commit possession with intent to deliver and two misdemeanor counts each of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia across two separate but related ...
At a meeting of the city Redevelopment Authority Friday, the board agreed to sell two blighted homes to developers under renovation agreements, while also receiving reports on nine other renovation projects at various stages of completion involving blighted or financially encumbered structures. Friday’s activity represents the continued “scaling up” of an initiative designed to use measures exclusively available to government to rescue problem properties that would otherwise slide toward demolition, usually by removing obstacles, so the properties become attractive for private ...
Around 2016, when Altoona Blair County Development Corp. Executive Director Marty Marasco was ready to retire, he reached out to Steve McKnight, who had formerly worked for ABCD Cop., and suggested he apply for the top job. “What about Pat,” McKnight asked, speaking of Marasco’s ...
