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The Logan Township supervisors heard a township police officer’s appeal Friday of his one-day suspension for insubordination, a penalty based on his angry reaction to learning he’d been denied workers compensation for mental health issues. According to Officer Alex Vazquez, the angry display for which he later apologized resulted from a perceived lack of support […]

AMED is making arrangements with Blair County that would enable the ambulance authority to prosecute patients for theft when those patients refuse to turn over insurance payments intended for AMED. In 2023 alone, AMED has lost $243,000 in revenue because patients enrolled with Highmark didn’t forward checks sent to them by the company after the […]

HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Hollidaysburg Borough Council on Thursday night denied a petition to rezone the 68-acre Stowell Farm following nearly two hours of testimony from developers who wished to build on the property and from nearby residents who feared that would exacerbate existing flooding problems. The council unanimously voted against the petition, 5-0, as council […]

A city landlord who in June was stripped of his right to operate all 20 of his rental properties for five years under a new anti-slumlord ordinance lost an appe

The Logan Township supervisors have voted to consider a new package of solar regulations developed in recent months by the township Planning Commission. Befor

The organization that handles recycling in central Blair County this week accepted 475 acres adjacent to its compost facility near the Buckhorn from the long-do

bkibler@altoonamirror.com AMED’S board on Monday voted to enter into an agreement with Blair County to allow AMED employees to support a proposed COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic at the Blair County Convention Center. The memorandum of understanding would allow AMED to be reimbursed for its employees’ time and would provide for liability protection, according to AMED Executive Director Gary Watters. The county would draft the agreement and AMED solicitor Dan Stants would review and approve ...

bkibler@altoonamirror.com Lakemont property owner Roy Powell measures the easement claimed by a three-phase power line feeding new AMED headquarters, seen behind him. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski The Lakemont property owner who is contesting an easement that AMED has taken for a power line the organization needed for its new headquarters building doesn’t agree the encroachment was “minimal,” as stated previously by AMED Executive Director Gary Watters. It’s true that Penelec on...