HOLLIDAYSBURG — An Altoona woman asked Blair County commissioners on Thursday for a ban on balloon releases, something that she thought everyone knew to be hazardous to wildlife, the environment and aviators. “Let’s be first and let’s lead the way,” Rosemary Ellis told commissioners ...
LILLY — Cambria County’s solar panel project is continuing to progress after the commissioners approved an interconnection reimbursement agreement Thursday with MEI Manor LLC, said Chief Clerk Alex Ashcom. As part of the project, the county hopes to install solar fields to power the Cambria County Prison, the Cambria County Courthouse and surrounding county-owned facilities at half the current cost, Ashcom said. The project received initial approval from Penelec, was pushed to the Pennsylvania Utility Commission for approval and then was sent back to Penelec for an engineering ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A judge denied the motions to dismiss Thursday morning filed on behalf of the Blair County couple facing hundreds of counts of child sexual abuse across four cases. William John Stonebraker, 56, and Marie Louis Stonebraker, 44, appeared alongside their respective defense ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Blair County District Attorney’s Office filed a motion Thursday morning to revoke the bail of the Hollidaysburg man accused of sexually abusing two underage girls over several years after allegedly contacting one of the victims to have her recant. William John ...
Grassroots resistance to data centers is creating some strange bedfellows with Republican lawmakers who are typically not on the side of environmentalists leading the calls for a moratorium on data center development. Karen Feridun of the Better Path Coalition, one of the groups leading statewide opposition to data center expansion, said she can’t remember an environmental issue that unified people across the political spectrum in the same way. “Everybody’s saying the same thing for once,” she said. “Once we stop playing the roles they like to play us, as adversaries, we are ...
JOHNSTOWN Alternative Community Resource Program will host a formal signing ceremony to establish a new clinical affiliation agreement with Indiana University of Pennsylvania, marking a significant step forward in expanding health care education and services in the region. The signing will take place at ACRP’s Outpatient Clinic, 119 Walnut St., Johnstown, at 1 p.m. Monday. The agreement supports the development of IUP’s Proposed College of Osteopathic Medicine and reflects a shared commitment to advancing community-based clinical training and improving health care access across ...
