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Huntingdon County sets America250 events

HUNTINGDON — According to Lonnie Smith Jr., Huntingdon County’s America250PA adviser, Huntingdon County has a list of events celebrating America’s semiquincentennial all year long. The full list of events can be found at www.raystown.org/america250, Smith said, noting events can also be found on the county’s Facebook and Instagram pages, which are both named America250PA-Huntingdon County. According to the Rays­town website, Huntingdon County kicked off its celebration by planting a Liberty Tree at Riverside Park in October 2025. The tree was part of a statewide initiative to ...

Deadline set for blighted Sandy Run Road home

In a blighted property hearing Thursday, the Logan Township supervisors gave a Sandy Run Road homeowner until the end of October to get her property in decent shape, after she detailed struggles she’s had cleaning it up and fixing it. Dawna Backmeier was found guilty of violating three ...

Horseshoe Curve funicular back on track

In late 2024, the Railroaders Memorial Museum reported that after a yearslong shutdown of the Horseshoe Curve funicular due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and after an electronics inspection led to replacement of the computer drive and software, the funicular was operational again. It didn’t ...

Blair County names new planning director

Blair County Planning Commission members Thursday named Jessica Sheets as the county’s new planning director. Sheets succeeds David McFarland, who resigned April 30 after serving in the position since August 2009. Sheets had been serving as a planning commission board member since her ...

Wings, wheels draw crowd to Ebensburg

EBENSBURG — Despite some gray clouds and the potential for rain, the 22nd annual Wheels and Wings event had a great turnout, according to Danea Koss, the borough’s community development director. This year, there were 17 food vendors lined up on West Sample Street, along with the ...

Altoona Housing Authority executive director set to retire

In 1999, the Altoona Drug and Crime Commission issued a scathing report about the infiltration of drugs and its associated crime in the city, criticizing the Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center and the Right Turn drug rehab center for drawing big-city drug dealers — and to a lesser extent, ...