Colver News

Bob DeReamus has lived in Tatamy for 45 years, long enough to remember when the biggest nuisance in the area wasn't traffic or development but the smell of pigs and manure on a windy day.

The mayor's office walls hold a mixture of government certificates, a portrait of Gen.

Residents in the Fox Run Development received letters demanding nearly $1,000 each to pay for work done to their streets.

Infrastructure, blight elimination and housing rehabilitation are targets for just less than a million dollars in state Community Development Block Grant funds anticipated by Cambria County and five communities.

In fast-growing Cambria Township, which surrounds the county seat, it's all about roads.

Township officials expect to seek a $3 million bond for two long-planned projects.

Using a systematic approach for data collection and analysis, the groups in charge of cleaning up mine-polluted waterways in this region are putting resources where they will do the most good.

Unaffected so far by federal spending cuts, Cambria Township will continue its water and sewer systems improvements this year.

A Maryland man was arrested for suspicion of DUI early Saturday after state police said his Toyota Tacoma slid off Fletcher Road and struck a porch at 118 Cumberland Highway.

Between 1910 and 1988, rural Cambria Township saw the rise and fall of two coal mines and their towns - Colver and Revloc - both developed by B. Dawson Coleman and his partner, John Weaver.