A new, interactive mural created by artist and business owner Sarah Garber is underway along 11th Avenue in downtown Altoona and depicts the area’s journey from trail town to rail town and back to trail town. The mural continues Altoona Blair County Development Corp.’s theme of the First ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Hollidaysburg couple Margaret and Michael Strueber recently hosted Sylvan Eidolon D’Nyx, the recently crowned winner of the U.S. Mondioring Level 1 Championship. A five-year-old Belgian Malinois, Nyx, as she is called, is “family” to the Struebers as Margaret ...
When Andrea Hollen of Altoona entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1976, she harbored a talent unknown to her that helped carry her through a traditionally difficult experience that was made harder by her being a woman in the first-ever West Point class that included ...
The Blair County Coroner’s Office along with the Pennsylvania State Police exhumed the unidentified remains of Baby Agnes Doe in Tyrone on Tuesday. According to a post on the coroner’s office Facebook page, the exhumation was made in an attempt to obtain DNA that will hopefully lead to ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County Prison Warden Abbie Tate submitted a resignation notice Monday that took effect immediately, prompting reassignment of the warden’s duties to Deputy Warden Shaun Edmundson. Blair County Commissioner Dave Kessling, who chairs the prison board, said Monday that ...
Rebecca Richards of State College has been named the new executive director of the Nittany Valley Symphony. A native of Warrensburg, Missouri, she replaces Gabriel Herrera, who left to pursue a doctorate in music at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Richards earned her master ...