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 he wouldn’t tie Tate’s resignation to last week’s inmate escape that remains under investigation. But in light of ongoing issues at the prison, Kessling said that he wasn’t surprised by the warden’s resignation. The county’s prison has a long list of issues and incidents associated ...
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 ...
MILL HALL — Momentum isn’t something that has a physical form — sure there’s evidence of it in one team’s cheers and the other’s dejection — but it’s something everyone feels. With one out and Holy Cross leading Claysburg-Kimmel by three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, ...
