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The 2024 Blair County 4-H/FFA Livestock Show and Sale was held Monday and Tuesday at Morrison's Cove Memorial Park. The youth exhibitors spent last week putting the final touches on their project animals, whether it was a goat, rabbit, lamb, dairy beef, pig, or steer – all in preparation to showcase their hard work and dedication in the show ring and to potential buyers at the sale. The event is the culmination of months of hard work caring for and raising their livestock. The youth showmen p...
Before too long, school will be back in session, and preparations by the school staff are well underway. At Central High School and the Spring Cove School District, the maintenance department is finishing their summer projects. The custodial team is finishing deep cleaning of the classrooms and office spaces in all of the district's buildings. The office staff are busy preparing back-to-school paperwork and sorting all of the supplies that come in during the summer. They have several teachers...
Spring House Grille in Roaring Spring closed its doors on Sunday, August 4. The restaurant was sold to Pediatric Health Care Associates, which is currently practicing in Nason Medical’s pediatric office and will move to the new location following renovations. All patients from Nason Pediatrics will be transferred to the new office and the practice will accept new patients. Following are the approximate time frames of ownership. Larry and Jerry Ritchey had Dog n’ Suds from 1969 to 1974. Ronald and Nancy Brumbaugh had Brumbaugh’s Drive-In from...
Roaring Spring Community Library was joined by Victim Services at Family Services Inc. and the Blair County Human Anti-Trafficking Response Team for the Red Sand Project art installation to raise awareness about trafficking during the afternoon on Wednesday, July 31. Those who attended the event filled the cracks in the sidewalks outside the library with red sand which represented victims of trafficking. The grains of sand are to represent people who have fallen through the cracks of society,"...
Kevin Ray Bollman, 53, of Martinsburg, passed away Tuesday morning, Aug. 6, 2024, at UPMC Altoona, following a brief illness. He was born Dec. 19, 1970, in Altoona, son of Raymond E. and the late Patricia L. (Mock) Bollman. He is survived by his father, Ray; a sister, Kimberly R. Guyer (Randy); a nephew, Colton L. Guyer, all of Martinsburg; and numerous extended family members and friends he loved dearly. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents: Byron and Florence Mock and...
A resident attended the monthly South Woodbury Township Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, August 6 at 9 a.m. to request they develop a resolution for blighted properties. He was concerned about a property that was falling which is a safety concern. The supervisors will look into this matter after obtaining some more information. A financial report submitted by the Southern Cove Volunteer Fire Company was not accepted by the supervisors and will take their questions to the fire company meeting for answers. Once this is cleared then the funds from...
Members of 4-H and FFA spent Monday at the 2024 Blair County Livestock Show and Sale showing animals such as goats, rabbits, lambs, dairy beef, pig, and steer. Pictured above a judge evaluates goats from participants at the livestock show....
Honestly, being a Williamsburger, one of the best weeks of the whole year is Farm Show week. Lucky for us – it begins this Sunday. Organizers are excited to bring another year of Farm Show fun, food, and agriculture. There will also be carnival games and amusement rides, which Farm Show organizers are hoping are a big hit with those all coming far and wide for the fair. Some of the highlighted events include: Sunday: Car Show beginning at 10 a.m. highlighted with an antique pedal tractor display, Jeff Corle music, the Williamsburg Community F...
The Morrisons Cove Herald has been around for over a century and has recorded much of the area's history, with not only stories but photos as well. Upstairs at the Park building, in the corner of a storage room, sits Tracie Madden and Kim Unger–two people responsible for sorting through the many photographs the Herald still has. According to them, there are thousands of photos they have to go through and organize. "We're organizing photos by month and year and separating them depending on if t...
Clair Matchett was ready for a vacation. She planned a trip with her husband and two other couples. Clair and her husband Noah had grown apart. She literally thought they hated each other. Emma and Aidan, the Matchett children, would stay with Clair’s sister Penny while they were gone. For some reason, Emma was particularly clingy today. Emma had a dream that a monster ate her parents which terrified her. Finally, they were on their way. They would pick up the others with their minivan. The other couples were Jack and his wife Michelle and Lind...
Molly Cessna was the winner of the Caleb McGee Best Breed/Own Award at the Morrisons Cove Dairy Show which took place last week. Pictured, from left are Molly Cessna, and judge Curtis Reichard....
Herald of Aug. 14, 2014 A new ordinance in Greenfield Township has been enacted regarding the naming of streets and the placement of signs. Supervisors approved the requirements during their Aug. 5 meeting. Two days of beautiful weather Aug. 9 and 10 in Claysburg brought folks from far and wide for the food, entertainment, arts and crafts booths and to socialize with friends and families at Claysburg’s 39th Annual Community Days. Boy Scouts from Troop 353, Williamsburg, toured the Herald office on Aug. 7. The scouts learned about how n...
Herald of Aug. 19, 1999 Child advocates of Blair County Inc., in conjunction with Hug-A-Chug Productions inc., will present national children’s recording and performing artists “The Learning Station” at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20 in a free concert at Morrisons Cove Memorial Park. The July accident that resulted in serious fish kill on Clover Creek killed an estimated 24,000 fish. A power outage hit Williamsburg last week, hampering activity throughout the town over the lunch hour and into the afternoon. A hot tub fell and caused an accident in Lo...
Herald of Aug. 15, 1974 The Bedford County Wagon Train will make a visit to the southern end of Morrisons Cove this weekend. Officers of the home association of the Roaring Spring Friendship Fire Company signed a contract, Wednesday evening, Aug. 7, with Cove Structural Systems, Inc., of Martinsburg for construction of a $200,000 bi-level fire hall. According to the Bedford County Chapter of the American Red Cross, the county is presently facing a crisis situation that is unknown to most people. The chapter was told by the Pittsburgh Division...
Herald of Aug. 18, 1949 Checking on persistent reports of typhoid fever cases in the community, the Herald was informed by the Nason Hospital authorities that there are four positive typhoid cases under treatment in that hospital at this time. A beautiful new bicycle will be awarded as first prize and a portable radio will be given to the second prize winner in the VFW-sponsored soap box derby in Martinsburg, on Labor Day. The tomato crop for the H. J. Heinz company is turning out well so far. 529 baskets have been shipped out and are said to...
Herald of Aug. 15, 1924 From Aug. 15, 1974 and Aug. 19, 1999 Years Agos The annual Memorial picnic was one of the largest ever held. Politicians and school heads were on stage. Music was furnished by combined bands of the Cove and Mary Alice Archey had several readings. Ball games were played with neighboring teams, New Enterprise and Roaring Spring, the visitors winning both games. Reports of the dinner committee showed a net profit of $356.43 on meals that were applied to the park fund. Special thanks went to the workers and those who loaned...
Herald of Aug. 18, 1899 From Aug. 15, 1974 and Aug. 19, 1999 Years Agos Martinsburg Borough Council purchased an acetylene gas lamp and post and erected it at the intersection of Allegheny and Market streets as an experiment, with a view of putting in an entire light plant in town. J. Ross Mateer, who formerly ran a drug store in Martinsburg but for a number of years was proprietor of one of the leading drug stores in Altoona, was seriously injured when a tank on his soda water fountain exploded while he was charging it. The head of the tank...
“The only good snake is a dead snake.” This was a commonly held belief when I was young and still holds true for many people. This is especially true of rattlesnakes. On one of our recent evening drives, Donna, Sage (her dog), and I spotted a dead rattlesnake along a rural road. It was only a hundred yards from a farmhouse. Donna remarked, “That’s way too close for comfort for the landowner.” She had grown up on a farm, and she has no ill will toward rattlers. “But, when I was young,” she said, “we had a couple get within 50 yards of our house....
Central's Kira Trexler, left, prepares to take a shot on goal past Ellie McIntier during a practice session Monday morning....
Claysburg-Kimmel quarterback Mason Campagna drops back to pass during the school's first Midnight Madness team practice that ran from midnight until 3:00 a.m. Monday....
Players take a water drink during Central's practice session Monday morning....
The Central girls' volleyball team works through some conditioning drills including a run during Monday morning's practice....
John Bush was raised in Martinsburg and graduated from Central High in 1961. He spent most of his adult life in the Pacific Northwest. He has many memories as a boy in the 1950s that give some insight to the people and culture of Martinsburg in the 1950s. John likes to tell stories and over the years he has repeated the stories of his youth many times. His belief is that those years in Martinsburg influenced him all of his life. Some of the stories are historical in nature, some are colorful,...
Blair County Chamber of Comerce Award Winners from Cove...
The Arc Blair County Events: Wednesday - Every Wednesday at 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Line Dance All are welcome. Thursdays - Every Thursday at 6 - 7 p.m. Bocce Rain or Shine All are welcome. Little Rock Natural Remedies Holds FREE Classes every Thursday at 6 pm at 16821 Dunnings Highway, Duncansville. 814-695-0624 Thursday, August 15 Food Distribution 9-11am Martinsburg Food Pantry 133 E, Allegheny St. Ag Progress Days 2710 W. Pine Grove Road, Pennsylvania Furnace 9 am - 4 pm Thursday, August 15 Martinsburg Booster Association Picnic Kreider Farm...
What or who are you trusting right now to change your life, restore your hope or to ease your pain? So often we are like rebellious children who wander away from God in search of something or someone whom we can trust. We turn to money, relationships, power or adventure. We turn to food or our work, only to discover that they offer only temporary help and empty promises. Maybe we can look at that lone coin in our pocket and see what is written on it: In God we trust. Maybe that can be a reminder that we can’t put our trust in another person. W...
Our congregation recently paused to recognize God’s goodness to us. The occasion was the retirement of our assistant pastor. His story is worth sharing in the hopes that it will inspire people of retirement age to be involved in ministry. If you fall into that age category, you have compiled life experience and skills and some mature perspectives on how to apply Biblical passages. The Bible pictures Christ’s followers as servants, and there is no retirement age for service in the Scriptures. That doesn’t mean that you will serve as a senio...
You may not like or may even disagree with my title. That’s O.K. I think I can justify it. Here is a simple response. I have never done this experiment but I have heard it was true from multiple sources When a chick is due to hatch, if you help it break out of its shell it will not survive. There is a thing called an ‘egg-tooth’ on top of its beak. The only purpose for this appendage is to allow the chick to peck around the shell and crack it. The chick then must push against the shell and break it open enough to come out. The rationale is th...
The 30th Annual Little Miss Claysburg Pageant was held Saturday, August 10 to kick off Claysburg Area Community Days. Fifteen contestants participated in this year’s event. Pageant Hostess and Director Diana G. Walter-Dively said that some of the duties of the winner include coming to the event as well as going to ribbon cuttings, drawings and raffles. The crowning of the 2024 Little Miss Claysburg Queen and Her Court are as follows: 2024 Little Miss Claysburg Queen- Bailee Grace Claar 1st R...
If anything is certain, it's that Morgan Reighard enjoyed her reign as the 2023-24 Williamsburg Community Farm Show Queen. Reighard will crown a new Farm Show Queen to kick off the weeklong festivities of the Williamsburg Farm Show, on August 18. "I am so sad that my reign is coming to an end, but when I look back at all of the wonderful opportunities I was given, I have to smile," Reighard said. "I have completed so many wonderful things this year – from helping out at the Farm Show during one...
Ashley Sollenberger, the 20-year-old daughter of Eric and Jamie Sollenberger of Curryville, hopes to win the title of the 2024-25 Williamsburg Farm Show Queen. She has an older sister, Lily, and two younger brothers – Levi and Reed. Sollenberger has lived and worked on her family's dairy farm her whole life, and continues to help out there when she's not at work. Sollenberger is currently employed at Renaissance Nutrition in Roaring Spring, working in the warehouse – loading and unloading tru...
Jesse Weaver, an alumnus of Williamsburg High School, made his way back to Williamsburg, speaking for his company, Weaver Electric at last Monday evening’s Williamsburg Borough Council meeting. Weaver said that he had heard some rumblings about the Borough building and the fact that although they are a heating/cooling place for the community, they have no backup energy source. He said after his first tour of the Borough building, that the building presented some unique challenges. Weaver then detailed his proposal which included solar panels o...
Several months ago, a new sign was constructed to welcome visitors into town. Bill Brantner, at the time, said he had wanted the back of the sign to have information regarding the trail and some pictures of the trail. Brantner's dream came to fruition at the end of last month. The sign was sponsored and paid for by the Williamsburg VFW Post 6086. Prough's Masonry volunteered to put the new sign up and do the landscaping around it. "I can't thank both of those groups enough," Brantner says....
While students are enjoying their summer vacations, the work of school administration and staff from many different departments continues even when they are not in the building. “It takes the summer and everyone working together to get it all accomplished – we have a great collective team at NBC,” Superintendent Todd Beatty said. Northern Bedford County High School principal Shawn Cerully said the first portion of the summer is about analyzing data from the previous year which can include discipline, test scores and reflecting on initi...
The number of times a board member could attend board meetings by electronic communications instead of in person attendance was a heated topic of discussion at the Monday, August 12 meeting of the Spring Cove School District Board of Directors. The motion to limit the number of times a board member can attend a board meeting electronically passed in first reading by a 5-4 vote with board members Kevin Smith, Andrea Moses, Misti Fisher, and Gretchen Bettwy opposing the idea while John Biddle, Linda Smith, Amy Acker-Knisely, Chuck Gojmerac, and...
A successful tractor pull with 148 hook-ups was held on Saturday, July 20, and was completed without getting rained out. A new fryer was requested as a backup for the fall show in the Southern Cove Power Reunion’s kitchen and one will be purchased for $1,200. The tractor to be given away at the fall show will be taken to the Bedford Farm Bureau and various tractor shows in the area. Ticket sales are ongoing for this and other prizes to be awarded on the last day of the show which is September 20-22 at 4 p.m. Tickets are being sold for a gun r...
The Central High Class of 1969 celebrated their 55th reunion by gathering on Friday August 2, 2024 on the upper deck at the Spring Dam Brewery in Roaring Spring for an informal get together. On Saturday August 3, the class celebrated at the US Liberty Hall in Hollidaysburg with a buffet dinner, reminiscing, class trivia,and honoring Bonnie (Lindsey) Hammel, who passed away in March 2024. She was the backbone of organizing all our reunions. A memory table was set up honoring the 50 deceased...
The 48th Claysburg Area Community Days took place on August 10 and 11 at the community park. According to co-chairman Nancy Musselman, the event started as an effort to help out the non-profits within our community organizations, school groups, fire companies, and any organization. They set up, primarily, food and game booths. She said if the committe brings in enough entertainment, it gives people a reason to come to the event, and allows non-profits to sell their wares. They can use this as...
Tropical Storm Debby went through the Cove and dumped about 2.64 inches of rain according the National Weather Service on Friday, August 9. While none of the rivers crested above the flood stage, waterways such as the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River pictured here were a bit fuller than usual due to all the rainfall. According the Blair County EMS Director Mark Taylor the damage was relatively low with only a few road closures and flooded basements....
Woodbury Borough council members met at the Woodbury Community Center on August 5, 2024. Secretary/Treasurer Barb Wilt reviewed the banking accounts. There is a total balance of $222,217.54 in the banking accounts. There is approximately $19,720 covid money to be used by the last day of the year. Weed and brush treating was completed on Lower Alley. The Regional Solid Waste Management Plan is available for anyone who would like to review at the Bedford County Planning Commission. There is an Act 32 Tax Collection Audit that can be reviewed...
MARTINSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THIRD GRADE Mrs. Cyrus: Dawson Cherry, Elliott Dalansky, Arianna DeAngelo, Gemma Delozier, Brooklyn Dennis, Beckett Diehl, Sandra Escobar Mazariegos, Bryce Frederick, Lyrah Garman, Ronna Hartman, Kaiden Heck, Kenna Keith, Sylar Lafferty, Landon Longenecker, Paislee Mowry, Shirley Och Reyes, Justine Rickabaugh-Steele, Dale Rothey, Gabriel Shaffer, Aiden Simmers, Logan Slagle, Katniss Watkins, Be’ella Weyant, Sadie Zimmerman Mrs. Forshey: Wyatt Bender, Arianna Benner, Elijah Brumbaugh, Grayson Carroll, Mason C...
Spring Cove School District Superintendent Dr. Betsy Baker reviewed what the 2024-25 approved state budget would mean to the district during her report at the board of directors regular meeting. There was an increase of $140,375 (or 1.6%) in their Basic Education Funding. Dr. Baker stated given inflation, unfunded mandates, the increase is still overall a setback and translates to less state support for the district and a need to rely on local effort to maintain status quo. She said in comparison, their basic educational funding in the last...
Cows waiting in one of the livestock barns at the Morrisons Cove Memorial Park at the 2024 Blair County 4-H/FFA Livestock Show and Sale that was held on Monday and Tuesday....
Meeting The Martinsburg Municipal Authority will be holding its regular September meeting on Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. (instead of 7:00 p.m.) at the municipal building at 110 S. Walnut Street, Martinsburg, PA. -------- Storage Sale Due to non payment of storage rent and fees, all property of Lisa Levison, 2730 6th Ave., Apt. 2, Altoona, PA stored at Freedom Junction Self Storage, East Freedom, PA, will be sold on August 20th, 2024, at 10 a.m., at Freedom Junction, East Freedom, PA. 19,2t -------- Storage Sale Due to non payment...
