More than $240,000 in grant money awarded this week in the 80th District will support fire companies and emergency medical services as they address building projects, purchase or repair equipment, conduct training, or reduce existing debt, according to state Rep. Jim Gregory, R-Blair/Huntingdon. Established by the Legislature, the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Program […]
When George Robert “Bob” Dick began working with his father in 1958, it was a completely different world. Dick’s Pharmacy, owned by his dad, Gerald Dick, at its original location on Fourth Street in Altoona, had the wooden fixtures and marble soda fountain of a bygone era. When Bob Dick became the sole owner of […]
Woodland Owners of the Southern Alleghenies (WOSA) will host a conference for landowners, foresters, loggers, and anyone who enjoys being in the woods. The conference will take place March 9
Judith (Filler) Bright, who grew up in Altoona and was a 1954 graduate of Altoona High School, died at her longtime home in Virginia on Jan. 28, 2024. She was born in Cumberland, Md., and moved to Altoona at a young age with her older brother, Bud, and parents, Merl and Gwendolyn Ruggles Filler, when […]