The secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs visited UPMC Altoona Tuesday to view its Emergency Department’s 9-month-old behavioral health pod, which her department helped establish with a contribution of $775,000 in opioid settlement money. The visit helped to ...
CRESSON — The Penn Cambria School District is facing a budget deficit of about $4.6 million and plans to raise local property taxes to the state’s Act 1 Index of 5% for the 2026-27 fiscal year, business administrator Jill Francisco said Tuesday. During the school board’s committee of the ...
The city is cooperating with First Commonwealth Mortgage to present a “Homebuyer Seminar” at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Devorris Downtown Theater, 1431 12th Ave. The event will feature “learning, networking and fun as we discuss tips and tricks to make your homebuying process ...
For $400 under the “Novelty Architecture” category, a Jeopardy! clue on April 14 said, “Everett, Pennsylvania is home to an ice cream shop named for these dome structures but actually shaped like a sundae.” And all three Jeopardy! contestants were stumped. Area ice cream lovers, ...
A native of Ecuador being detained in the Moshannon Valley Processing Center claims in a federal petition that he is being housed in solitary confinement, which he describes as a “complete form of torture.” The detainee, Pablo David Reyes Ponce, in his civil rights petition filed this week ...
The Altoona Area School District enacted a stay-put alert Wednesday morning after receiving a bomb threat that was determined to be a hoax swatting call from California, said Paula Foreman, the district’s community relations director. According to Foreman, the suspicious call was received ...