HOLLIDAYSBURG — The bell within the Blair County Courthouse’s clocktower tolled the hour for the first time in nearly 50 years to celebrate its restoration and the nation’s 250th anniversary. “Today, we celebrate the return of the courthouse clocktower in working order,” said ...
EBENSBURG — American flags, scooters and horses packed the streets for Ebensburg’s first Independence Day parade as the community celebrated the nation’s 250th anniversary Saturday morning. Although the borough has hosted Christmas and Memorial Day parades in the past, Saturday was ...
At the Main Line Mania festival at the Railroaders Memorial Museum Friday, Lois Stoltz of Cresson spoke of having come because her friend Lisa Briscoe of Tyrone was also coming, because Josh Gallagher of her home town was singing and because there would be good food. "Food, fellowship and ...
National politics has been divisive in recent years, including the politics surrounding the celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday this weekend. A semiquincentennial collage created by Altoona Area High School students under guidance of an art teacher and the school’s artist in ...
Sometimes the string that ties the past to the present can simply be that: a string. Or at least that remains true for Diane Smith of Spokane, Washington, whose female ancestors can all be traced back to the American Revolution in Bedford County, where all were bequeathed spinning wheels, ...
Pennsylvania wrote the founding documents. It has spent 250 years arguing over what they mean. In courtrooms and committee rooms, Harrisburg and Philadelphia are fighting over the same questions the founders left unresolved: Who votes? Who draws the maps? And who gets to decide? As the nation gathers in this state to mark its 250th birthday, the battles over Pennsylvania’s election laws offer an unsettling mirror of how democracy actually works — and how easily it can be bent. The state escaped the redistricting battles that played out over the last year, largely because power is ...
