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℘℘℘ What could be more parental than to wish to show your children how good they have it today? To take your family into the past and give them a taste of real life, when necessity stared you straight in the face and your mettle was tested by the sometimes–cruel vicissitudes of nature? For Gordon Clune, the son of an Irish father, and Adrienne Clune, an immigrant from County Wicklow, fantasy became a reality when their family was picked out of 5000 applicants to “go back” 118 years and spend five months as homesteaders in Montana. The premise of the six–hour PBS “reality progr...

By Tikkun Golem 1. The nest of Israeli-firsters, Israeli ass-kissers, dual loyalists and no doubt outright Israeli agents that is known as AIPAC is holding its annual policy conference in Washington, D.C. for three days starting Sunday, May 3. Mossad Jane Harman is scheduled to speak there and no doubt Haim Saban will make an appearance. The questions is, will the Israeli agent to whom Mossad Jane admits talking to on the phone and who allegedly bribed her by dangling the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee in front of her be there as well? Very possibly so, especially if that ...

bkibler@altoonamirror.com The Altoona Water Authority recently bought equipment needed to begin a five-year regimen of testing for bacteria downstream from its Combined Sewer Overflows, to determine what effects the CSOs have on streams. That could help determine whether environmental agencies eventually begin to pressure the city to eliminate its combined storm-and-sanitary sewer system serving the central area of the city — work that years ago was estimated could cost $75 million. “We hope to have (the equipment) installed and running this spring,” Mark Glenn, president of Gwin Dobso...

bkibler@altoonamirror.com The Altoona Water Authority expects to start $30.8 million worth of work at the Bellwood reservoir in October or November, after years of delays. Consulting engineer Gwin Dobson & Foreman is updating specifications and plans for the $20.9 million renovation of the dam and the $9.9 million renovation of the water treatment plant and has tentatively set up bid advertisements in July for the dam and in August for the plant, company President Mark Glenn told the board Thursday. The authority will pay for the projects with $30.9 million that Pennvest awarded in January, s...

bkibler@altoonamirror.com Pennvest on Wednesday awarded the Altoona Water Authority $30.9 million in low-interest loans to renovate the Bellwood dam and the water treatment plant below it. The authority, which has been planning the projects for several years, received a permit from the Department of Environmental Protection for the plant renovation several months ago and one for the dam renovation several weeks ago. The authority is undertaking the $21 million dam project under pressure from DEP, because its spillway is severely undersized, posing a risk in the event of a major storm. The aut...