Local history 50 years ago: 1974 The Altoona Vo-Tech Operating Committee, Dr. Hugh Hayford Jr. member, gave permission for 96 cosmetology students and 25 chaperones to travel to New York City the following month for a cosmetology seminar. 25 years ago: 1999 Baltimore Life Insurance in Hollidaysburg, Doreen Berggren representative, presented $500 grants to the […]
Sunday Editor Louise Hoffman Broach first met Christine Lavin nearly 40 years ago at the Smith Opera House in Geneva. Lavin was performing; she was a frequent visitor to Geneva
Local history 50 years ago: 1974 Because of the truckers’ strike, 81 service station dealers of Blair County formed the Blair County Gasoline Dealers Association, Frank Rabits president. Truck strikers had pickets at the Gulf, Amoco, Arco, Texaco and British Petroleum (BP) gasoline terminals. 25 years ago: 1999 About 20 victims of the December natural […]
ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art also known as SAMA is a community art museum. SAMA successfully operates the nation’s longest-running museum satellite system with five museum facilities in the southwestern Pennsylvania cities of Altoona, Bedford, Johnstown, Ligonier and Loretto. Each SAMA branch hosts fundraisers throughout the year as a way […]