Johnstown City Manager Ethan Imhoff is planning to resign and take a job closer to his home in Hollidaysburg. He gave his 60-day notice Wednesday to Johnstown City Council.
Blair County Planning Commission members Thursday gave a positive review to the Holliday Hills Phase II Development Plan, located along Holliday Hills Drive, Hollidaysburg. The proposal calls for the construction of 14 new duplex townhouses within the Holliday Hills area, on a parcel shared with an existing seven-townhouse development that was approved in June 2022 […]
Hollidaysburg Senior High School, Junior High School and Charles W. Longer Elementary School were placed under lockout for approximately an hour as Hollidaysburg Borough police apprehended an individual at the nearby Blair Regional YMCA on Friday morning. According to junior high principal Dale McCall, “nobody was ever at risk, and there was no suspected danger.” […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Gaysport residents may finally get relief from flooding issues now that Hollidaysburg Borough has been awarded $690,000 in grants for stormwater projects. The borough plans to use part of the grant money to buy 7.8 acres of the 68-acre Stowell Farm in Gaysport to construct a stormwater facility that would mitigate decadeslong flooding […]
Water and sewer projects in Blair County will receive $3.5 million in state assistance after the Commonwealth Financing Authority approved a large slate of proposals this week. The CFA administers Pennsylvania’s economic stimulus packages as an independent agency of the Department of Community and Economic Development. According to the Shapiro administration, 415 projects for a […]
Bedford County water and sewer projects will share more than $1.2 million in funding from the Commonwealth Financing Authority, state Sen. Pat Stefano and state Rep. Jesse Topper said Tuesday.
A pickup truck stolen from the Lakemont area early Sunday morning has been connected to the escape of a Blair County Prison inmate. According to Hollidaysburg police, Logan Township police received a report of a vehicle stolen from Logan Boulevard in the Lakemont area. Video surveillance confirmed that at 2:45 a.m. Sunday, the vehicle was […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Police continued Monday to look for a Blair County Prison inmate who escaped Sunday by accessing a ventilation shaft and using a homemade rope of prison clothing to get access to an unsecured window and roof. Isaiah Robert Tilghman, 33, who has been in the county prison since May 2 when arrested on […]
Blair County Planning Commission members said Thursday a request to rezone a property in Hollidaysburg is not consistent with the county’s comprehensive plan.