As Penn State Altoona begins dealing with the university’s plan to cut $54 million 14 percent from the Commonwealth Campuses’ budget for the fiscal year beginning in mid-2025, it won’t help to start “finger-pointing,” according to the local college’s chancellor. Rather, “we need to be in solution mode,” said Ron Darbeau, after a […]
The chairman of the Blair County Commissioners plans to meet next week with a local state representative to discuss an offensive post that the commissioner placed briefly last weekend on the lawmaker’s legislative Facebook page. Republican Commissioner Dave Kessling has already apologized on Facebook, while state Rep. Jim Gregory, R-Hollidaysburg, has already forgiven Kessling, the […]
Lakemont Park Timeline Compiled by the Blair County Historical Society 1754-2022 (1) The company that runs Lakemont Park under a long-term lease from Blair County won’t operate any rides there this season because it has become financially unsustainable, according to Lakemont Partnership President Andrea Cohen. The partnership will continue to offer access to the four […]
As Penn State Altoona begins dealing with the university’s plan to cut $54 million 14 percent from the Commonwealth Campuses’ budget for the fiscal year beginning in mid-2025, it won’t help to start “finger-pointing,” according to the local college’s chancellor. Rather, “we need to be in solution mode,” said Ron Darbeau, after a […]
The state Department of Environmental Protection has fined Rutter’s real estate holding company and an excavation contractor $73,000 for violations of the Clean Streams Law during the recent construction of a Rutter’s convenience store in Pinecroft. The violations were discovered by inspections conducted between May and August last year by the Blair County Conservation District […]