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Two Cove communities are losing a business with the announcement that Dick's Pharmacy, an Altoona-based business founded in 1928, will be permanently closing its doors this month. Dick's has two Cove...

Less than 10 months after opening a new cardiovascular catheterization (cath) lab, Conemaugh Nason Medical Center, Roaring Spring, completed its 500th cardiac catheterization on Oct. 28, 2019. The...

Borough employees Dusty Russell (in bucket) and Brian Miller take advantage of the dry weather to install Christmas decorations along North Market Street in Martinsburg on Tuesday, Nov. 5....

Everywhere we go can be a lesson in history, all it takes is a little imagination and a willingness to look behind the surface of the present. Blair County is 173 years old and filled with stories of...

Bedford County returned two incumbents to the commissioner's office while electing one new face. Unofficial results show Republican incumbents Josh Lang and Barry Dallara as the top vote getters...

Claysburg-Kimmel's Mackenzie Clemens sets up a teammate during District 6 playoff action Monday, Oct. 28, against Bishop McCort at Claysburg High School. The Lady Bulldogs swept the Crushers en route...

Cam Norris, a graduate of Central High School, Martinsburg, is in his junior year at St. Vincent College, Latrobe. Norris, a member of the Bearcats' football team, made the transition from defensive...

Northern Bedford sandwiched a game-clinching touchdown run around two crucial turnovers in the final two minutes of the game to clinch a spot in the District 5 Classs 1A championship game with a...

The Claysburg-Kimmel football team ran for 212 yards and five touchdowns during its 45-8 District 6 Class 1A opening-round playoff victory against visiting Penns Manor on Nov. 1. The fifth-seeded...

Last fall, my son, Bob, and I did not get to hunt together during the autumn turkey season. Because of the heavy rain that occurred on the first day, I did not hunt. Bob, like our friend "Scout,"...

Northern Bedford and Claysburg-Kimmel both survived the first weekend of postseason action Nov. 1 and 2. The second-seeded Black Panthers (8-3) have their sights fixed on their first District 5 Class...

Northern Bedford High School junior Ian Zimmerman placed fifth in the PIAA Cross-Country Class 1A boys' Championship on Saturday, Nov. 2, at Hershey. Zimmerman ran the course in 16 minutes, 37...

Between the 1860s and 1930s, poor and orphaned children were sent to Canada as British Home Children. More than 118,000 were sent from England to Canada with the theory that they would receive...

E pluribus unum. Even if you never studied Latin, that fairly simple phrase is probably very familiar. You may have only a passing interest in American history, but those words surely stand out. As...

Scriptures to Read: Acts 21:17-26 Galatians 4:4-11 Romans 4:1-4 Romans 4:5-12 Romans 4:13-19 Romans 4:20-15:2 I Corinthians 9:19-23 Paul has arrived at Jerusalem at long last. His first days were...

It's beginning to look a lot like...Election Day. While some local elections just concluded the election I am talking about what takes place in one year. It is hard to believe but the countdown to...

Sonja King of Huntingdon retired on Sept. 20 as a commercial lines fast-track underwriter with Mutual Benefit Group following a 29-year career in insurance. A graduate of Altoona School of Commerce...

Duncansville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8724 hosted its 10th annual golf scramble on Aug. 17 at the Sylvan Hills Golf Course, Altoona. A meal followed the tournament, catered by the Duncansville...

Students at Northern Bedford County High School were recently introduced to The Challenge Program Inc. during a kick-off assembly at their school. The assembly theme was "Future Influencers:...

Macy Walason (third from left), 19, of Alum Bank, was honored by the Pennsylvania State Fair Association on Oct. 24, with the Junior Fair Person Award for Zone 3. There are 24 fairs represented in...

Cara Lourenna "Smith" Rinker of Huntingdon and special friend Paul Crabtree of Venango County were spending Aug. 10-17 at Outer Banks-Salvo, N.C. They are holding a copy of the...

Deborah Scully, Lee Worley, Linda Strobert and Joyce Wilt took a copy of the Oct. 10, 2019, edition of the Morrisons Cove Herald while they toured with Freedom Excursions on the...

On Sept. 17, Alpha Beta Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society inducted two new members at Hoss's Steak and Sea House in Bedford. Yvonne Bowser (right), an educator for 17 years, has served at...

Donald C. Russell, 88, of Silver Creek, N.Y., died Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, at his residence, following a lengthy illness. A funeral was held Wednesday, Oct. 30, at the Riles & Woolley Funeral...

Arletta M. Bowers, 89, of Martinsburg, passed away Thursday evening, Oct. 31, 2019, at Conemaugh Nason Medical Center, Roaring Spring. A celebration of life service will be announced at a later date....