When Margie Keller was a child in the mid to late 1960s, her mom would take her shopping in downtown Altoona, and they’d stop to eat at the lunch counter in McCrory’s 5 & 10. On Tuesday, Keller opened an outlet store for her Ashville winery in the same spot as that old lunch counter ...
Nikki Decker had never run an organized road race until after her 40th birthday, when she competed in the 2017 Angie Gioiosa Memorial Fourth of July 5K race in downtown Altoona and finished the 3.1-mile course in an average time of less than 10 minutes per mile. “I think I averaged a 9:49 ...
PennDOT District 9’s bridges and roads are generally in better shape than the state’s averages, especially the major assets — I-99 and Routes 22, 219 and 30 — but there are funding concerns, District Executive Vince Greenland said at the district’s annual spring outreach Monday in ...
Once, when Dave Hoover was a young police officer in his hometown of Martinsburg, he stopped a girl for driving the wrong way on a one-way alley. The encounter turned out all right: Hoover married the girl, and she’s still his wife. Last week, as Logan Township police chief, Hoover, 60, ...
PATTON — The Cambria County Regional Firefighters Association’s fire academy training classes offer learning opportunities for hundreds of firefighters across Pennsylvania, said Lianna Weir, the association’s public information officer. The 71st-annual fire academy kicked off Friday, ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG - The director of Blair County's Children, Youth & Families office on Thursday encouraged those attending a ceremony in recognition of Child Abuse Prevention Month to applaud her staff and community members engaged in ongoing efforts to protect children. "To work in child ...