BELLWOOD Senior, junior and sophomore students at Bellwood-Antis High School received a grim reminder of the dangers of distracted driving Friday morning, when local emergency service personnel presented a mock accident in front of the school. Members of Excelsior Fire Company, AMED and the Blair County Coroner’s Office teamed up with BASD faculty to […]
To the ancients, eclipses of the sun were a mystery omens inspiring awe and fear. These days, they’re occasions for party gatherings, like the one Monday around the Mountain Lion Observatory at Fort Roberdeau, where the vibe was like that of a watch party for Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship whose main mystery […]
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Herschell Donald “Pat” Varner, 92, a resident of Maple Heights Health & Rehab Center, Ebensburg, and formerly of Roaring Spring, passed peacefully through the gates of Heaven on Tuesday after an extended illness. He was a son of the late Ralph and Myrtle (Corre) Varner of Bellwood. Pat has finally been reunited with the love […]
As the family story goes, Dolly L. Hollen was born prematurely weighing in at about one and a half pounds, only to grow into a “tough” woman who served as a U.S. Army nurse in WWII before returning stateside to raise four children. Hollen, 101, died Jan. 29 after a brief illness. The Bellwood resident […]