It's construction season for Dreams Go On Inc., as their new barn takes shape on a 14.5-acre plot along Turkey Valley Road in Frankstown Township. "We can finally see the walls," program manager Debbie Kelly said. Dreams Go On - a nonprofit 501(c)(3) program designed to help physically ...
Altoona Area High School's Friendsgiving event is one of the most rewarding days of the school year for students and staff alike, according to Superintendent Brad Hatch, who said the annual event "really is a celebration of what education and our kids are all about." For the nearly 70 Life ...
The authority that manages the Blair County Convention Center is open to hosting more out-of-state Division I football teams, after hosting the Oregon Ducks in late September. Executive Director Tom Schilling said Wednesday that, since hosting the Ducks during the Sept. 27 weekend when the team played Penn State, the convention center has been in contact with personnel from two universities about hosting their football teams in 2026. And it remains open to fielding requests from others, he said. Until this year, the Oregon team and other visiting football teams generally stayed in the ...
Advantage Resource Group has come a long way since opening in October 1985 on Lexington Avenue. The business, founded by Bobbie Miller, has grown from a small staffing agency in Altoona to a HR service provider with three locations throughout central Pennsylvania. To mark its 40th ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG - A Tyrone man accused of attacking a "safety sitter" while in the UPMC Altoona Emergency Department last week was known to hospital police due to an incident earlier that day, according to testimony presented during his preliminary hearing Wednesday. Bradley Scott Lloyd, 40, ...
A quartet of Mount Aloysius students are being praised for their kindness and dog-catching skills after they braved the rain and the cold to find a pup that escaped from its kennel at a Cresson doggy day care. Friends Lilly Cypher, Erika Alexander, Sara Borlie and Lakin Baker - all 20 years ...
