Pennsylvania school districts and the communities in which they reside could benefit from a special, mandatory four-session course required by the state Legislature and Department of Education, targeted for one of the junior high grades and spaced out over the course of the school year. The ...

The information about online bullying that junior high students of the Altoona Area School District received this school year is the kind of presentation that should be available to similar-aged students of other districts, those near and far from Blair County. The mental and emotional scars ...

The Blair County Planning Commission has revived discussion about how the commission, going forward, should be structured. However, what conclusions are reached in the weeks or months ahead need to be built on a foundation of input from all of the county’s municipal governments, not just ...

Young, healthy people are not likely to devote much attention to news reports about shortages of medicines. However, that changes as illnesses and other conditions creep into their lives — a fact of life as people age. Therefore, the news that the Federal Trade Commission is launching a ...

Any homeowner or business owner who pays a municipal water bill has grounds for questioning the “teeth” of the Altoona Water Authority’s new “penalty fee” for theft of hydrant water. While the fee certainly is justifiable, people familiar with the current and rising costs of ...

Women across America have been delivered a wake-up call regarding uterine cancer, but it probably will take at least several years to ascertain how well they’ve paid attention. Hopefully, women of the Southern Alleghenies region will be among those eventually delivering the message that ...