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HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County has about 100 job openings, with some departments struggling more than others to fill vacant positions at a time when the county’s unemployment rate is less than 3 percent. Sheriff James Ott said Wednesday that he is looking for job applicants who can fill nine deputy positions and two office positions. […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG — An effort to provide Blair County Prison inmates with correctional-grade computer tablets ran into a common problem of wireless connection issues, Warden Abbie Tate told the county prison board Thursday. Rather than abandoning the pursuit, the company that presented the prison with 35 tablets is now offering to upgrade the prison’s computer connection […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County’s newest commissioner spoke Wednesday about his concern over the starting salaries associated with efforts to fill vacant deputy sheriff positions. Dave Kessling, who took office this month and is now chairing the county’s salary board which met Wednesday, said the $15.52 hourly starting pay for sheriff deputies is generating below-poverty level […]
CB Scientific. Inc. ("CBSC" or the "Company"), a designer, manufacturer and distributor of non-invasive ambulatory cardiac monitoring products and services, today is providing its shareholders with a 2023 year-end review from...
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