The city Zoning Hearing Board Wednesday granted Eighteenth Street Community Church Pastor Nate Germany variances that will eliminate the need for him to provide off-street parking spaces for two of three recovery homes that the church operates. The granting of the variances on Germany’s ...
One person is dead following a house fire in Portage Township Wednesday afternoon. Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees confirmed that a man was killed in the blaze. His identity has not yet been released. Emergency crews were dispatched to the 4000 block of Portage Street about 2 p.m. Wednesday ...
A member of an Altoona drug ring was sentenced to five to 10 years’ incarceration in a state correctional institute after entering a no-contest plea in late March. Tareek Alquan Hemingway, 32, appeared before Senior Judge Michael A. George of Adams County for a plea hearing on March ...
The Portage Area School Board voted to approve a $62,700 payment to Allegheny Restorations for stone wall repairs at the district’s football stadium. Superintendent Pete Noel said it’s the first payment of three, as the project is about 30% complete. Noel said the project is to replace ...
More than half a dozen fire companies, with tankers, responded to a barn fire at the Rushing Spring Farm along Texas Corner Road, New Enterprise, Wednesday afternoon. The fire, in an outbuilding, was quickly brought under control. Mirror photo by Holly Claycomb
MARTINSBURG — The Altoona-Blair County Airport does not yet have final passenger numbers from Contour Airlines for March, airport manager Tracy Plessinger said Wednesday. Contour’s overall completion rate for March was 100%, Plessinger said, adding he believes March was a good month for ...