Amtran has a deputy leader again. Almost a year ago, when General Manager Eric Wolf retired, his deputy Josh Baker assumed the top job, which was redesignated CEO. Transportation Supervisor Michele Barnes was identified as a candidate for Baker’s old job, but in October, Barnes left to take a post as director of transportation for […]
The Altoona Water Authority Thursday raised its blended water-sewer rate for average residential customers by 6.91% for 2024. The increase will hike monthly payments for users of 4,000 gallons of water a month by $7 to $119. The increase conforms with recommendations in a 2022 rate study whose updated version calls for those average customers’ […]
A Greenwood couple died Tuesday evening in an apparent murder-suicide, according to Logan Township Police Chief Dave Hoover. Blase Raia shot Brooke (Zimmerman) Raia in the head with a handgun, then shot himself in the head in the basement of their home on the 600 block of South Dartmouth Lane the culmination of a […]
The Altoona Redevelopment Authority/Land Bank plans to develop a strategy to deal with obtaining tax exemptions for the properties it owns. It’s an issue because Blair County doesn’t automatically grant property owners tax exemptions without those owners going through the county’s formal tax appeal process including government agencies despite those being generally entitled […]
The Logan Township supervisors this week conducted their annual distribution of fire tax funding to the volunteer fire companies that serve the township. “We take very good care of the fire companies, and in return, the fire companies take very good care of us,” said supervisors Chairman Jim Patterson. Each of the five companies received […]