Charged Teacher Resigns, Waives Formal Arraignment

A Martinsburg woman who was a teacher in the Altoona Area School District and was charged in January on felony counts of disseminating obscene or sexual explicit materials to a minor and unlawful contact with a minor, waived her formal arraignment in Blair County court.

Holly D. Metzler, 45, was a teacher at Altoona Area High School when police said she sent a male student inappropriate photos and a video of herself.

According to charges, Metzler was contacted by the 17-year-old student several weeks after homecoming in 2018, and the student told her that he and other students found her att...