Tag: Altoona

As the battle against spotted lanternflies becomes steep, some researchers say that getting native birds to eat these invasive pests is key.Pennsylvania

Send in the Birds: Eliminating Pennsylvania's Spotted Lanternflies Through Avian Assistance

The ways to get rid of spotted lanternflies over the past few years have been to step, squish, and squash them. But as the battle…

Famous Pennsylvania Locomotive #1361 On Display At The Horseshoe Curve In Altoona. A Nazi plot to blow up a Pennsylvania railroad and a cryolite metals plant in Philadelphia, among other targets, failed thanks to one of the eight saboteurs.Pennsylvania

FBI Raids and Cold Feet: Inside the Disrupted 1942 Nazi Plot to Blow up Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve

A Nazi plot to blow up a Pennsylvania Railroad, namely Altoona’s famous “Horseshoe Curve,” and a cryolite metals plant in Philadelphia, among other targets…

Courtney KellyEducation

Delaware County Leadership: Courtney Kelly, Executive Director of Admission, Widener University

Courtney Kelly, executive director of admission at Widener University, spoke to DELCO Today about growing up in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. She stayed active in sports and…

As the battle against spotted lanternflies becomes steep, some researchers say that getting native birds to eat these invasive pests is key.Pennsylvania

Send in the Birds: Eliminating Pennsylvania's Spotted Lanternflies Through Avian Assistance

The ways to get rid of spotted lanternflies over the past few years have been to step, squish, and squash them. But as the battle…

The girls check themselves out on a video of the their championship game in AltoonaNewtown Square

St. Anastasia B-Ball Team Brings Home State Title 2 Years in a Row

Hard work and team chemistry gave the St. Anastasia Parish Girls Varsity Basketball team in Newtown Square its second Pennsylvania State CYO championship victory in…

The men's basketball team at Penn State Brandywine in 1968, when the university's athletics program startedSports

NCAA OKs Penn State Brandywine for a Division III exploratory year

Penn State Brandywine in Media was approved Feb. 16 for an exploratory year in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The year…

A Sheetz convenience store and gas station in Carlisle, PennsylvaniaRetail

'Smile,' Workers With Bad Teeth Can Now Work at Sheetz

Wawa rival Sheetz is abandoning a “smile” policy that kept workers from being hired who had “obvious missing, broken, or badly discolored teeth,” writes Lizzy…

A Wawa store and gas station in Lancaster, PARetail

Wawa Remains PA's Largest Private Company but Sheetz Is Nearby

Wawa saw a 36 percent jump in revenue last year as it continues to rank 24th among the 25 largest private companies in the US…

Commerce

Magazine Ranks Wawa Among Nation’s Top Convenience Stores

Wawa made Food & Wine Magazine’s top ranks in a list of best convenience stores in the country, writes Erin Caproni and Kennedy Rose…

Commerce

Pipeline Reversal Threatens Already-Vulnerable Refinery in Trainer

The Monroe Energy refinery in Trainer is already one of the region’s two most vulnerable oil refineries, and a new Laurel Pipe Line proposal…