Northern Cambria News

The bewilderment local breast cancer patients, surgeons and activists felt last week after hearing a proposal to cut back on mammograms and eliminate breast self exams has turned to anger as more details are learned.

The Black and Gold are champions again. Northern Cambria brought home its second PIAA Class A volleyball title Saturday, beating defending champion Reading Holy Name 3-0 in the title match.

After several months of worrying about the safety of its public water supply, including a boil-water notice in July, borough engineers say the immediate problem is solved.

The WPIAL was shut out for the third consecutive year at the PIAA girls' volleyball championships, which concluded yesterday at Central York High School.

A look at a map of northern Cambria County tells the story. Four boroughs, all with police departments located in a radius of about eight miles.

State police say the allegations facing former Northern Cambria official David Suchar include selling a few of the borough's manhole covers and fire hydrants to a private community and pocketing the proceeds.

After a three-year hiatus, Burrell Township's central village will once more have a holiday light display, thanks to an assist from the new Black Lick Improvement Group.

Efforts are being made by the state Department of Education to determine the status of the school-age children belonging to families of the Swartzentruber Amish sect of Cambria County, a spokeswoman said Monday.

The borough official charged with forgery and stealing from Northern Cambria and its two water authorities is on a forced vacation, and his job future will be determined next week.

A borough street official who also was supervising the water treatment plant when bacterial contamination was found during the summer has been charged with forgery and stealing from Northern Cambria Borough and its two water authorities David Suchar, 49, was charged Tuesday with seven counts of unlawful taking and three counts of forgery before ...

By David Hurst, dhurst@altoonamirror.com. The Northern Cambria Municipal Authority has 30 days to submit a plan to the state detailing how it will repair serious water supply and facility issues at its plant, which has been under scrutiny for months.

When Elizabeth "Betty"Krug was told she had cancer, she had one thought. "I need at least 40 years," the Northern Cambria mother of two young children told her doctor.

Larry Checkon of Northern Cambria recommends novice giant pumpkin growers read "How-to-Grow World Class Giant Pumpkins The All-Organic Way" . Volumes one through four are available at www.annedawn.com Extensive pumpkin pedigrees are behind the giant orange orbs that converged in Altoona last weekend for the annual Pennsylvania Giant Pumpkin Growers ...

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM From paintings to broken glass, the diverse talents of an artists' organization have been harvested for a fall showing.

The three-member Susquehanna Township Board of Supervisors now is made up entirely of appointed members rather than elected officials.

A northern Cambria County man who led a nonprofit development corporation for 20 years is being eyed by three communities in the hopes he can help them find state and federal money for a number of initiatives.

It should take more than having civil defense as part of a group's name to make an organization exempt from property taxes.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM Things are really clicking for members of Greater Johnstown Camera Club.

Three area schools made a list of Pennsylvania schools that have dealt with contaminated drinking water within the last decade.

Frank Strum's Parkhill garden didn't produce anything near the size of the 600-pound pumpkin he showed off last year.