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A bipartisan duo of senators introduced a measure on Feb. 24 to legalize adult use cannabis in Pennsylvania. It's the first time a Republican member of the chamber has cosponsored the proposal – typically endorsed solely by Democrats, including Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. "That's kind of the elephant in the room, if you will," said Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-Erie. "I believe in solving problems, and adult use cannabis is no more harmful than liquor. I'm not afraid to run a bill that doe...
Charges against a Hollidaysburg man accused of throwing an object through the window of the office of State Rep. Jim Gregory have been waived to Blair County Court. Joseph A Fox, 30, remains free on $10,000 unsecured bail after appearing before Hollidaysburg District Magistrate Paula Aigner on Feb. 24. Fox was arrested on Jan. 22 after Hollidaysburg Borough police were called to the office of State Rep. Jim Gregory to investigate an act of vandalism. According to the police, Fox threw a wooden cross at the bay window of Gregory’s Allegheny Stre...
Footprints in the snow led to the arrest of a Newry man on multiple burglary related charges. John T. Molliver, 39, is facing felony counts of burglary and criminal trespass along with misdemeanor counts of theft by unlawful taking and possession of instruments of crime after police said he broke into a Hollidaysburg home on Feb. 18. According to charges filed by Hollidaysburg State Police, a trooper was on patrol when he observed a silver Town and Country minivan parked at the Hollidaysburg...
Ranking 32nd of the 50 states, Pennsylvania is below average overall for retirement, but it does provide seniors the 12th best quality of life, according to an analysis from WalletHub. The state’s ranking was based on measures of affordability (40-point weight), quality of life (30-point weight) and health care (30-point weight). Pennsylvania had the fourth-lowest general taxpayer-friendliness, based on WalletHub’s March 2020 analysis of states’ tax rates assessed on the median U.S. and state households. “Aside from working on that, authori...
The head of a Pennsylvania agency tasked with granting or denying businesses non-closure waivers in the early days of COVID-19 was in the hot seat recently as he faced a House panel. While the state House Appropriatio ns Committee typically takes a forward-looking view at operations out of Harrisburg, many of the questions and comments legislators lobbed at Dennis Davin, secretary of the Department of Community and Economic Development, looked back at the past year. Davin, who likened some of...
– WEEKLY UPDATE – As of 3/2/2021 Area Counties #Cases / #Deaths / Rate* Bedford: 2,770 - 129** - 269.4 Blair: 8,653 - 298 - 244.6 Cambria: 8,700 - 394 - 302.6 Centre: 11,897 - 209 - 128.7 Clearfield: 4,674 - 114 -143.8 Fulton: 650 - 14(n/c) - 96.4 Huntingdon: 3,549 - 124 - 274.7 Somerset: 4,987 - 185** - 251.9 *Rate is number of deaths per 100,000 population. It is used to compare county death rates. **Pa. DOH apparently revised this number from the previous week. – Week of Feb. 23 – Area Counties #Cases / #Deaths / Rate* Bedford: 2,755 -...
Over the last year, the Catharine Township supervisors have been discussing two major projects for the township, one connecting Ganister to the Williamsburg Authority sewer plant and the other pushing a sewer line out to Yellow Springs residents. The supervisors, during the regular Feb. 25 township meeting, considered combining the two projects for better funding and for an increased chance of obtaining grants. Dave Cunningham, the township engineer from Keller Engineers of Hollidaysburg, told the supervisors that combining the projects would...
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced Feb. 26 that Economic Injury Disaster Loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and private nonprofit organizations in Pennsylvania due to drought that occurred from June 1 to Nov. 30, 2020. Low-interest disaster loans are available in the counties of Armstrong, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Forest, Huntington, Indiana, Jefferson, Lycoming, McKean, Mifflin, Potter, Union and...
With the latest Pandemic Relief Bill, signed into law on Dec. 27, 2020, sole-proprietor farmers gained an opportunity to participate or revise an existing loan in the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This article will primarily focus on a program change that affects the self-employed earnings portion of the PPP loan calculation, opening an opportunity for many farmers without payroll costs on their 2019 Schedule F, and/or did not have a profit on their...
I will be honest – I have never been a huge St. Patrick’s Day fan. I didn’t really see the whole point of the holiday, but ever since I became a teacher at Bright Beginnings Early Learning Center in Roaring Spring, this holiday has had special meaning. One year when I first began teaching, I decided to have a crazy leprechaun named Jack come in during the few weeks leading up to the holiday, playing tricks in the classroom and leaving rhyming notes for the children. This idea that I had originally thought was perhaps the dumbest idea I had i...
When one thinks of Williamsburg sports, one typically thinks of basketball. However, a certain youngster is proving that Williamsburg's up and coming sport may be wrestling. Haiden Jones recently dominated the 8u bracket at the Pennsylvania Novice State Championships in Carlisle. Jones won by decision, 5-2. Jones is the son of Brad and Christey Jones of Williamsburg. Jones began wrestling in December 2019 after a friend of his invited him to attend a tournament in Ocean City, Md. "All it took...
Blair County celebrated 175 years on Friday Feb. 26, and will be celebrating throughout 2021. Blair County Commissioner Laura Burke said that there are celebrations of the country's founding every 25 years, with the last one being for the 150th anniversary in 1996. "We want to do something similar this year," she said, but with COVID-19 restrictions, such celebrations "could be a little tricky." Burke said that the county is forming a committee to get ideas and consensus on what kind of...
