To develop and thrive on the long and challenging path to adulthood, children need a solid foundation and a stable home base. Carl Fochler and Dr. Zane Gates — two graduates of Bishop Guilfoyle High School (now Bishop Guilfoyle Academy) — both benefited from those steady, nurturing and ...
Karen Ferguson of Altoona dances to the band 8-1-FUNK during Blair County’s Juneteenth Jubilee Block Party and Cook-Out at Prospect Park on Friday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
TYRONE — Retired State Police trooper and Army veteran Tim Strohmeyer is “the boy who wasn’t expected to do great things,” a title given to him in an email exchange with Rose Black, the Tyrone Area Chamber of Commerce’s executive director. While speaking at the chamber’s breakfast ...
The company that developed the anaerobic digester project at the Altoona Water Authority’s Westerly Sewer Treatment Plant several years ago recently paid the authority $551,000 to make up for a shortfall in operational income from the digester for 2025 — a shortfall that reflects the firm’s difficulties in obtaining sufficient high-strength waste from customers for the digester to process. Energy Systems Group took on the project as part of a state energy conservation initiative, with a guarantee that for 20 years, participants like the authority would at least break even on ...
Two education bills introduced only days ago are moving quickly through the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, drawing sharp disagreement over whether they would bring needed accountability to school-choice programs or undermine funding for students who use them. House Bill 2632 would overhaul Pennsylvania’s education tax-credit scholarship system beginning in 2027-28, keeping the $680 million cap but changing how the money is allocated. The bill would create a new economically disadvantaged scholarship category, adjust donor incentives and impose new oversight requirements on ...
Domestic violence and sexual assault survivor advocates gathered in the Pennsylvania Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, calling on legislators to pass the state budget on time with survivors’ needs at the forefront and warning of the consequences of last year’s stalemate. The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence is advocating for an increase in the Department of Human Services domestic violence line item of $8 million to bring the total to $31 million. The Pennsylvania Coalition to Advance Respect is calling for an increase in the DHS rape crisis line item of $12.5 million to ...
