Veteran Dave Dandrea waited a lifetime to return to South Korea. After driving an Army truck during the Korean War, city resident Dandrea returned to the country in late July to receive the Ambassador for Peace Medal, one of three Americans honored at the ceremony. Not only was Dandrea, ...
The Altoona Area High School science commons was renamed and dedicated Monday as the AAHS Innovation Center, in honor of a generous donation from Jane and Lee Hite and Nancy and Steve Sheetz. The donation was made to the Altoona Area School District Foundation to build an endowment that will ...
To Joe Landolfi, the summer of 1962 was when his family’s basketball hoop was installed in their backyard. He remembers removing the grass while his mother packed down stones and pebbles before a few guys working at Leonard S. Fiore installed the blacktop, a pole with arms and a plywood ...
Altoona Blair County Development Corp. President/CEO Steve McKnight addressed the Logan Township supervisors with concerns about the Logan Valley Mall's conditions during their meeting Thursday. For decades, the mall has served as an important commercial center, employment base and community ...
MARTINSBURG -- Contour Airlines carried a record number of passengers in and out of the Altoona-Blair County Airport in July. With an overall completion rate of 100%, Contour carried 2,427 passengers outbound and inbound last month at the airport, according to manager Tracy Plessinger, who ...
An investigation into the derailment of about a dozen train cars traveling westward Tuesday afternoon along Altoona's Horseshoe Curve remains underway, according to Norfolk Southern officials. Senior communications manager Kasandra Jenkins wrote in an email that no injuries were reported and ...
