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The Altoona Water Authority recently approved a new slate of rates, rules and regulations for business and industrial customers whose sewage effluent requires pretreatment.

The Altoona Water Authority's website has a page devoted to conservation tips.
The state Department of Environmental Resources publishes a fact sheet with similar tips.
Ditto for the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

WILLIAMSBURG - The vegetables entered in this year's Williamsburg Community Farm Show were colorful but not plentifu.

CLEARFIELD - Pennsylvania's only ethanol plant had a rough beginning but is now thriving.
"We have 85 employees today. Four years ago when the plant was purchased, they had 35 employees.

The Altoona Area School Board is on the path toward a new high school building in 2018, but Bob Kutz, president of the Altoona Area Building Trades Council, wants the board to reconsider demolishing the high school B building.

Pennsylvania is on course to have four attorney generals in five months, with the state Senate likely to vote soon on a replacement for interim Attorney General Bruce Castor.

Blair County

Altoona Area
Aug. 29: First day, grades 1-12
Aug. 31: First day, kindergarten
Sept. 5: Labor Day
Oct. 28: In-service
Nov. 11: Veterans Day
Nov. 24-28: Thanksgiving holiday
Dec. 23: In-service
Dec. 26-Jan.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - Altoona attorney Thomas M. Dickey and his law office can continue representing Paul Aaron Ross in an upcoming murder retrial in connection with the 2004 death of 26-year-old Tina Miller of Hollidaysburg.

While students overdosing on opioid drugs hasn't been an issue in area schools, a life-saving medicine will make its way into local school nurses' offices, providing an antidote just in case.

The public will be "less protected" under a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that reduces the number of years some child sexual offenders must register with state police, Blair County First Assistant District Attorney Jackie Bernard said.