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[email protected] HOLLIDAYSBURG Blair County started mailing ballots Monday to 5,558 county residents who sought to vote by mail in the May 18 primary. The option, embraced last year by about 16,000 county voters interested in avoiding COVID-19 risks and in casting ballots in the hotly contested presidential race, is attracting some interest this year for the upcoming primary. That’s when Republican and Democratic voters will select candidates for state judicial, county, municipal and school board posts, and when all registered voters can weigh in on four statewide ballot questions. Blair County mailed letters in February to about 15,000 registered voters who last year indicated an interest in receiving future applications to vote by mail, Director of Elections Sarah Seymour told the elections board at its recent meeting. ....
[email protected] A fund created by the Blair County commissioners to aid with the removal of blighted properties will receive more money as of July 1, according to action taken by the county board on Thursday. The commissioners doubled a fee collected by the Blair County Recorder of Deeds on all mortgages and deeds recorded in the county office. The present fee is $7.50, but as of July 1, it will be $15 per document. That increase means the charge on filing a deed transfer or mortgage will go from $79.25 to $86.75. Revenue from the fee increase will be earmarked for the “County of Blair Demolition Fund,” which was initiated in 2019 to address blight in area communities. ....
[email protected] A Blair County agency that has been planning a new homeless shelter is hoping for state approval of tax credits that will complete the finances necessary to move ahead with the project. Lisa Hann, executive director of Family Services Inc., approached the Blair County commissioners Tuesday asking them to provide a “Letter of Support” for the agency’s bid to obtain $250,000 in tax credits through the state Department of Community and Economic Development. The credits, Hann stated, would be awarded through the Neighborhood Assistance Special Priorities Tax Credit Program. Hann and others have been planning for several years to open a new homeless shelter because its former shelter had only 16 beds, well short of meeting the present-day need. ....
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[email protected] HOLLIDAYSBURG Blair County expects to exhaust its COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Grant Program allocation in the first round of funding. The Altoona Blair County Development Corp., which is administering the county’s CHIRP, identified 60 eligible entities that submitted applications for a share of the county’s $1.38 million allocation before deadline. ABCD indicated that if applications fell short of exhausting the county’s allocation, then additional applications would be accepted. “It appears that all funds will be used,” commissioners Chairman Bruce Erb said Tuesday. It’s also expected, Erb said, that ABCD will work through April on grant agreements that the applicants will sign before checks are distributed before the end of April. ....