An independent movie filmed last year in Altoona has won Sinking Valley resident Steve Shaffer several movie festival awards, including “best short film” at the 2023 Dreamz Catcher International Film Festival and “best dark comedy” at the 2024 Cleveland Arthouse Film Awards. Shaffer, a religious man with an interest in philosophy and theology, in 1995 […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG Blair County commissioners cast a 2-to-1 vote Tuesday in favor of contracting with a Pittsburgh law firm for solicitor services, thereby ending the county’s longtime tradition of relying on a Hollidaysburg law firm. Commissioners Dave Kessling and Amy Webster voted Tuesday to approve an agreement with Gabriel Fera PC to provide the bulk […]
Based on the Blair County Convention Center’s latest financial report, the facility is poised for an optimistic future, assuming that nothing horrific like the COVID-19 pandemic derails it. For the benefit of newcomers to the county, as well as others who might have lost track of the center amid all of the pandemic news in […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG The Blair County Convention Center’s latest financial report shows 2023’s revenue exceeded $2 million for the first time since 2019 and projects 2024’s revenue as slightly higher. While the 2023 figures are subject to confirmation through audit, convention center authority members meeting Wednesday were encouraged by the fiscal improvement. “We’re back,” authority member […]
When Stanley Brand was general counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives under Speaker Tip O’Neill in the early 1980s, and a commission study showed Socia