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TIPTON - Less than a week after Tipton-Antis Volunteer Fire Company was decertified, one member said its future is unclear.
"I don't know what the plans are for the fire hall at this point," Scott Orolin, a "lifetime" member, said Monday.

BELLWOOD - Bellwood-Antis High School's graduation ceremony Thursday night took on a different twist.
Class valedictorian Kerri Little did not attend the 7 p.m. ceremony.
"We found out just a few minutes before that she was not going to attend.

In the coming months, City Council will consider a pair of ordinances that could increase costs for organizations that hold events in Altoona's parks and on its streets.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - A Roaring Spring man accused of trying to firebomb the borough office and police station is asking Blair County Court for reduced bail.

TYRONE - Upcoming work at a railroad crossing became a point of discussion at Snyder Township supervisors meeting on Monday because of the possibility of it cutting off an entire neighborhoo.

An Altoona teenager faces felony drug charges after a traffic stop allegedly turns up nearly a half-pound of marijuana.
Daniel J. Brunner, 19, 1300 Second Ave.

Eleven local governmental bodies are planning to create a council of governments to help each other handle increasingly strict environmental regulations on stormwater and avoid fines for noncompliance.

HARRISBURG - School districts have another difficult year ahead of them, fraught with program cuts, teacher layoffs and - pending another budget impasse - loans to keep doors open, a joint study found Monday.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - The former manager of an Altoona municipal pool recently lost a quest in Blair County Court to have a 1988 corruptions of minors offense removed from his record.

TYRONE - A dream led the Rev. Aden Wertz into the ministry.
Wertz had gone to work at the Kinney Shoe Store in the Indiana Mall, where he was manager, to have his morning devotions before the store opened for business.