Nearly 250 Altoona Area High School students and 39 teachers participated in the 12th annual "Toona Tune-up," a community service initiative held Tuesday to beautify the city's neighborhoods and parks. For five hours, the volunteers painted, pulled weeds, spread mulch and picked up trash at ...
Surrounded by freedom, families and other community members, thousands lined the streets in downtown Altoona on Monday as the city’s Memorial Day parade passed by to remember and honor those who gave their lives in combat as members of the United States armed forces. The parade, sponsored ...
Carol Adams was at the pinnacle with two other mothers Saturday among guests of honor at a Memorial Day weekend ceremony at Van Zandt VA Medical Center, because she's a "Gold Star" mother - one whose child died in military service during a time of conflict. As such, Adams was accorded maximum ...
More than 20 years ago, Blair County native Tom Grove applied to the Altoona Mirror for work as a reporter, but never received a response. Now a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Grove this month shared a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting as lead author on one of seven 2024 stories ...
EBENSBURG — As graduating seniors plan parties for their recent or upcoming commencement ceremonies, the Cambria County Drug Coalition took to the streets Thursday to encourage people not to provide alcohol to minors. To bring awareness to the Sticker Shock campaign, which aims to change ...
On Wednesday afternoons throughout the month of May, groups of volunteers can be seen picking up trash, painting fences and repairing homes all around Fifth Avenue in Altoona for the Neighbors Helping Neighbors program organized by Overflow Church. According to Pastor Aimee Burns, the ...
