Claysburg News

Two Western Pennsylvania residents are among the latest recipients of the Carnegie Medal for civilian heroism.

A Blair County logger serving four to nine years in prison for stealing timber now faces 21 new charges.

Francis I. Ritchey, the owner of a Claysburg logging company, will face 21 additional charges of stealing timber from rural properties in Blair, Cambria and Somerset counties, according to a court order filed Tuesday in Blair County.

Several family members of Central High School's graduating Class of 2009 are upset because they missed out on their loved ones' graduation experiences.

Having gone to Shippensburg to punch their ticket into the PIAA Class A softball semifinals, the Claysburg-Kimmel Lady Bulldogs are heading even further east.

Claysburg-Kimmel High School's graduation ceremony was webcast live Sunday afternoon to Iraq, Equador and Korea.

CHAMBERSBURG, PA From May 27 through June 2, 2009, the U.S. Government Printing Office awarded 113 one-time print jobs to 44 print supplier clients of Government Print Management.

NPC in Claysburg, Pennsylvania, is the apparent low bidder on U.S. Government Printing Office Program #0267-S, projected to be worth $283,022 annually.

Altoona's former Deputy Chief of Police Mitch Cooper officially stepped out of retirement Tuesday night as he won the Republican nomination for Blair County sheriff over Constable Ray S. Benton, receiving nearly 74 percent of the vote.

Jim Kissell remembers a half-century ago when farmers and butchers from Claysburg, East Freedom and Blue Knob came down the mountain weekly to sell their goods door-to-door throughout Portage.

A 41-year-old central Pennsylvania man will spend more than three years in prison for having sex with a 13-year-old girl he says he turned to for companionship during his troubled marriage.

A Claysburg man who said he found solace in the company of a 13-year-old girl when he and his wife were having problems will spend at least the next three years in a state correctional institution after admitting the relationship turned sexual.

Submitted by DvilleDem on Sat, 2008-02-23 13:02. This is a campaign Blog. Well, unless the something extraordinary happens in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania, it looks like we got ourselves a presidential nominee.

Specialties: Hot beef sandwiches; different specials run daily, with Wednesday's ham pot pie and Fridays hand-breaded fish among the most popular Seating capacity: 100 Reservations: Not accepted Only cash is accepted; no checks or credit cards Editor's note: Behind the Plates is a monthly series featuring area restaurants.

Business owners say the local economy is not booming, but it's in better shape than in many parts of the country.

ROARING SPRING "Brent's beaming smile was always there," family friend Karen Lewis said less than one week after 18-year-old Brenton Croll died at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where the Roaring Spring native was enrolled in the nursing program.

When Khalil Pinkney of Philadelphia complained last year that he was sitting in prison more than six months without a trial, he contacted the Blair County Chapter of the NAACP.

The Milk Income Loss Contract was established with the 2002 Farm Bill. MILC, funded through the United States Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency, will provide payments to farmers when Boston Class ...

As he looked over the processing equipment that was once part of Hope Acres Dairy, Rick Klienow saw potential.

Education: Claysburg High School , engineering degree from University of Hawaii.