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HOLLIDAYSBURG - A pair of historical canal homes on South Juniata Street will be put out to bid, Borough Council has decided.
Discussion about selling the borough-owned homes began at council's May meetin.

Nick Felus sees his appointment as Altoona Area High School's head football coach as a homecoming of sorts.
Felus grew up less than 30 minutes away in Lilly and attended nearby Penn Cambria High School.

McLanahan Corp. officials have been inundated with questions from workers and community members after comments made Friday at a rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested the company's future was in danger.

TYRONE - Police said a Columbia County woman was injured in a Thursday afternoon car crash along Interstate 99 in Snyder Township.
According to state police at Hollidaysburg, Moriah G.

The Pennsylvania Association for the Blind's contract with the state is $2.1 million this year.
But that state funding amount hasn't changed since "groovy" was the word to describe a stylish pair of glasses.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - An Altoona man's possible explanations for his baby's injuries can be used in future court proceedings, a Blair County judge has ruled.
After a review of the arguments offered in defense of 26-year-old James .

MARTINSBURG - Four vintage World War II aircraft will soon be on display at the Altoona-Blair County Airport as part of the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour.
The Stowe, Mass.

Amid reports of growing tension between the Republican National Committee and its presidential nominee, local party officials presented a unified front at a Friday night rally for Donald Trump at the Blair County Convention Center.
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PATTON - A nonprofit looking to remove Patton's defunct Chest Creek dam told borough officials last week that council must decide by next month whether to move forward with the project.
Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy of American Rivers, a Washington, D.

Packing thousands of people into the Blair County Convention Center on Friday for a one-night event had the potential to create problems.