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CLAYSBURG - Even as the Claysburg-Kimmel School District prepares to expand its after-school science and technology program with the help of local fundraisers, communication problems and disagreements are presenting last-minute hurdles.

Altoona could soon join the ranks of many smaller towns that don't have an Amtrak ticket agent on duty when passenger trains come through.
The national carrier recently disclosed its plans to the Altoona Redevelopment Authority.

NEWRY - The crowd attending a PTO meeting at St. Patrick School fell silent at the question: "When was the last time enrollment was this high?" canon lawyer Philip Gray asked.
"Nobody can remember," Gray said with a smile.
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The city Zoning Hearing Board has denied a request for a variance for storage units on the main street of Juniata's central business zone.

Three Michigan men who police say were traveling through the area to hit Wal-Mart stores with a gift card scam are now in Blair County Prison.
Andre Edwards-Morgan, 19, Michael J. Toles, 19, and Brandon Walker, 20, all of Flint, Mich.

Trisha Lyn Hoffman had become a mother just three months ago.
"It was so exciting because she couldn't wait to be a mom," said her friend, Rebecca Bodenschatz, on Thursday.
Hoffman, 29, and her husband, Cory, named their baby girl Lacy Mae.

Commentary from the podium at a City Council meeting Wednesday generated reciprocal symmetry - like an algebra problem where, after everything cancels out, the answer appear.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - A Blair County jury is expected to decide the fate of Jorge "Macho" Gomez III today as it deliberates the criminal homicide charge he faces in the fatal shooting of Kai "Castro" Carter on the night of May 3, 2015.

Altoona Curve general manager Rob Egan made a home for his family here in 1999 and always felt it would take a special opportunity for him to ever leave.

TYRONE - Parents spent more than an hour highlighting problems with two football fields at the Tyrone Area School Board meeting this week.