A decorated Vietnam War veteran is being remembered as a true American patriot. John F. Gority, 74, of Altoona died Monday at UPMC Pinnacle in Harrisburg where
John Joyce has recently become the target of choice by a small number of disgruntled Republicans. Their complaint? It seems he met with President Joe Biden to discuss jobs for Pennsylvanians. This public outcry by a handful of crabby Republicans is quite frankly ridiculous.
John Joyce is our U.S. Representative here in Pennsylvania s 13th congressional district. The district contains all of Blair, Huntingdon, Bedford, Fulton, Franklin and Adams Counties. It also includes most of Somerset and parts of Westmoreland, Cambria, and Cumberland counties. The 13th congressional district is the most solid Republican district within Pennsylvania, and one of the most solid Republican districts in the country.
Dan Burkhart wakes up every day excited to go to work, even after 25 years.
The Altoona native’s job doesn’t just contribute to the world; it extends to worlds apart from our own as far as nearly 140 million miles away.
Burkhart is a NASA scientist who played an instrumental role in the recent landing of Perseverance on Mars, a mission that seeks to return samples of the Red Planet to Earth.
He and his team of 25 are exploring the habitability of the planet to determine whether it once harbored life. The landing of Perseverance, he said, is forwarding this quest for the answer.
Mike “Lucky” Luciano scored $500,000 Tuesday from a scratch-off lottery ticket purchased in Altoona, his third lottery jackpot score in just over 20 years