Portage News

Two 15-year old boys face arson charges following a Tuesday night fire which damaged the 100-year-old Century Ribbon Mill, police said Friday.

A Portage man accused of setting fire to a two-story home with people inside was arraigned Wednesday.

Multiple fire companies battled two major blazes in Cambria County's Mainline region late Tuesday and early Wednesday.

It's summertime, and the living is easy. But not for Portage Borough Council members, who are dealing with issues of merchandise on a sidewalk, a partially demolished mobile home, a family moving back into a burned home and complaints about loud teen dances.

Fire caused an estimated $60,000 damage to a 2 1/2-story home in the 600 block of Orchard Street in Portage late Wednesday afternoon.

It's sewage, so it smells. That's why the borough located its sewage treatment plant in a remote, wooded area off Route 22.

A Portage Township resident who held the distinction of being one of the youngest school board members in the region and one of the youngest in the state is stepping down from that post.

Members of Bethel United Methodist Church in Salix are living the Second Greatest Commandment.

In 1874, a prominent Huntingdon attorney named William H. Woods, 45, had the Italianate-style Victorian mansion built in an area then known as the Developing West End of Huntingdon Borough.

By KATHY MELLOTT KMELLOTT@TRIBDEM.COM Thirteen could be a lucky number for bargain hunters at The Great Portage Yard Sale, which is preparing to celebrate its 13th year.

The statewide revenue decline for a transportation system that keeps commerce moving is being felt at the county level, with PennDOT managers in Cambria and Somerset forced to tighten up priority lists unlike anything they've done in recent years.

Despite 2009 plans for more than $3 million in improvements to facilities in the Portage Area School District, there will be no increase in their property taxes, superintendent Richard Bernazzoli said.

A Cambria County man has been arrested on charges that he used his business -- Gary's Steals and Deals -- to sell stolen merchandise on the Internet.

Portage Area School District in Pennsylvania will be implementing a new video surveillance system in its high school under a contract with Intelligent Decisions .

Longtime District Judge Galen Decort once again captured the support of voters Tuesday on both the Democratic and Republican ballots.

Voters in Cambria and Somerset counties can expect sunny skies today when they go to the polls to cast their ballots, a senior meteorologist withAccuWeather said Monday.

The officer who was appointed officer-in-charge of the Seward Borough police on Tuesday was suspended without pay for 10 days two days later.

New bleachers and auditorium seats for Portage Area High School have been approved by the board, while additional information is needed before bids are sought for a controversial fitness center.

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.

The three candidates in the race for Portage Township supervisor have extensive knowledge of the municipality and its people: Each is or has been a supervisor.