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Following a ceremony Wednesday at the Hollidaysburg Veterans Home to mark “National Skilled Nursing Care Week,” retired licensed practical nurse Gretchen Eardley was sitting next to resident Phyllis Woodring, a widow who has had a stroke and who was sitting in a wheelchair. Eardley had never met Woodring before, but it wasn’t long before Eardley […]

On Monday, at the end of his annual state of the city address, consisting of a review of departmental accomplishments and a short listing of challenges, Mayor Matt Pacifico told the “starfish story” about a boy who saves those creatures stranded on the beach by throwing them into the ocean, after which a condescending observer […]

The Altoona Blair County Development Corp. is working with the city Redevelopment Authority/Land Bank to raise money from locally active banks for a housing development project on the 200 block of Beech Avenue — a pilot effort that could turn into an annual program. Five banks have committed $135,000 in contributions so far toward a […]

Late last year, the public water system in Aliquippa was one of several across the U.S. that was attacked by Iran-affiliated hackers, who hit Israeli-made computer equipment used to control water system operations. At the time, officials with the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa said the cyber group, known as Cyber Av3ngers, took control of […]

The city Redevelopment Authority/Land Bank is trying to hash out how it will proceed with housing development, and whether it will continue to seek an executive director to guide the process. A couple months ago, the organization received an unexpectedly high bid from the single contractor who responded to a request for proposals for renovation […]