Thanks so much to Kirk Dodson who wrote the article about Donald Trump in the Nov. 22 Opinion Page in the Altoona Mirror; it said it all. Thanks to everyone else that wrote other letters about Trump, especially to Gena Strawmire, who wrote about bullying. I too have family, friends and ...
Blair County Commissioners and Explore Altoona need to follow through and establish a Trail Development Authority. As a former board member and past President of Rails to Trails of Central Pennsylvania, my personal objective was to extend the Lower trail into the population centers of ...
Eighty-three years ago this weekend, Americans spent most of the day contemplating with uneasy hearts what the future would bring. Dec. 7, 1941, was the day Japan opted for the gamble that Americans would be caught off-guard and that this country would succumb to the imperialistic intentions ...
Kay Stephens did a story on Blair County DA’s office’s wages. Pete Weeks cited that the office has lost six assistant district attorneys since 2018. Other counties of similar population pay their assistant district attorneys $12,463 more a year than Blair County does. Keep in mind Blair ...
With the school and community still in shock over the recent allegations toward the executive director of the Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center, it is painfully apparent that the school has been dying since the current administration has been in office. During this administration ...
For Altoona, 2025 could prove to be pivotal to the point of being reminiscent of the “new” Mountain City that evolved during the course of two decades, the 1960s and 1970s. The 1960s and ’70s — the major redevelopment decades — established a positive foundation upon which the city ...