BALTIMORE — At a table with other University of Maryland students and campus leaders, Keven Guruswamy, a senior psychology major and Seventh-day Adventist, held up a photograph of his collection of Bibles arranged on a shelf. Some of the Bibles were in Tamil, others in English. Some he ...
Night of worship Holy Spirit Ministry will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, at St. Michael Church. Father Jim Davidson will present a short teaching on the “5 Stones of Medjegorie.” Davidson is a Ukrainian Rite Catholic priest, a physician and a Bishop Guilfoyle grad graduate. Prayer ministry will be held at 8 p.m. Food bank open The food bank will be open from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at Faith Baptist Church, 315 40th St., Altoona. The date has been changed due to election day. Food pantry available The Food Pantry at Second Avenue Global Methodist Church will ...
VINTONDALE — Antique clocks are timeless, but this time of year, they need daylight saving time adjustments. For 37 years, Mack’s Clock Repair in Vintondale has helped local residents keep on time by adjusting their timepieces to the biannual changes. “Of course, all the clocks in ...
The organization that oversees a curbside recycling program for three central Blair County municipalities is raising prices at the beginning of 2027 at the two compost and recycling dropoff centers — open to anyone — that it operates in Buckhorn and Duncansville. With only $40,000 in its operations account and $20,000 in its capital account, the Intermunicipal Relations Committee’s cash on hand is running a little short, partly due to delays in receiving entitlement grants from the state Department of Environmental Protection, so the additional $20,000 to $30,000 per year ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Roaring Spring resident asked Blair County commissioners Thursday morning to look into the data center allegedly being proposed for the former Appvion Paper Mill site in Taylor Township, saying its construction would “completely change” the quiet community. Tom ...
