HOLLIDAYSBURG - Individual volunteers and service organizations are the heart and soul of the community and their unwavering support shows veterans the sacrifices they made to protect the nation have not gone unnoticed or forgotten, said Hollidaysburg Veterans Home commandant Chrissy ...
Every tree is a banquet for wildlife and Fort Roberdeau will be a banquet hall once the saplings planted during its Earth Day event reach full maturity. Volunteers met at the cabin across a small footbridge from the fort to plant about 100 trees in an area they were recently able to clear of ...
Cambria County residents kept a close eye on the University of Iowa over the past half decade watching Central Cambria graduate Max Murin reach All-American status twice as a Hawkeye wrestler. But unbeknownst to most of them, another county native was in an even more prominent position and ...
A few years ago, Suzanne Gati of Duncansville and other grandchildren of the late Altoona firefighter John "Willie" Pearson visited Pearson's old fire station on Washington Avenue, where they met firefighter Sean McCauley, who took them on a tour that included a glass display case and wall ...
When Margie Keller was a child in the mid to late 1960s, her mom would take her shopping in downtown Altoona, and they’d stop to eat at the lunch counter in McCrory’s 5 & 10. On Tuesday, Keller opened an outlet store for her Ashville winery in the same spot as that old lunch counter ...
Nikki Decker had never run an organized road race until after her 40th birthday, when she competed in the 2017 Angie Gioiosa Memorial Fourth of July 5K race in downtown Altoona and finished the 3.1-mile course in an average time of less than 10 minutes per mile. “I think I averaged a 9:49 ...
