Gallitzin News

Amy Crawford can be reached via e-mail or at 724-850-2856. Before 1834, the best way to travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh was by wagon, an arduous, three-week journey at a top speed of 3.5 miles per hour.

Volunteers plant some of last year's Odwalla trees in Prince Gallitzin State Park.

Outdoors lovers now have a larger area for recreation thanks to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.

A fire early Friday destroyed the Anchor Inn, a well-known Clearfield Township bar that was built nearly 50 years ago near Prince Gallitzin State Park.

Just in case you have not already received this or heard, it's time once again to plant a tree with a click of your mouse! The Plant a Tree program is a partnership between Odwalla and PA Parks and Forests Foundation to help withreforestation and planting initiatives.

BY TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM This year's recipients of the Prince Gallitzin Cross Awards have been announced by the Most Rev.

Anthony M. McMahon, 27, of St. Thomas Street, Gallitzin, died Monday in Gallitzin.

Admission: $17 for adults, $10 for children younger than 12. Tickets are available at the door.

Approximately 340 acres of dangerous abandoned mine lands containing steep cliffs, piles of waste coal that pollute streams, and exposed coal seams that can catch fire from burning trash will be cleaned up under 13 contracts awarded during the first four months of this year, according to Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger.

By land and by air, they are out there looking for anyone speeding, driving aggressively or not wearing a seat belt while traveling on Route 22 through Cambria County.

The Cambria County Military Hall of Fame will enshrine eight new members on Saturday.

Fire crews from the region were busy Saturday trying to snuff out stubborn brush fires along an Allegheny Township mountainside.

Bob Frye covers the outdoors for the Tribune-Review. He can be reached via e-mail . A fair number of anglers were fishing Greenlick Lake earlier this week, but reports of catches were minimal.

Gallitzin Township's supervisors want a second appraisal of a recently-timbered township tract before approving a study to show if the community got their money's worth from it.

When the Maronda Foundation eliminated funding for Mt. Gallitzin Academy, a 107-year-old Catholic school in Baden, the Sisters of St.

The Cambria County Democratic Committee will kick off the primary campaign with a rally at 7 tonight at Ace's Lounge, 316 Chestnut St., Johnstown.

The cost and magnitude of municipal police services in the Mainline area of Cambria County will be getting a close inspection by outside experts in what could be a precursor to a regional force.

A boxer from Gallitzin, Marcelino S. Flores, and his wife, Nicole, entered guilty pleas Monday to charges stemming from the breakup last year of a drug organization operated from a Scotch Valley home.

Cambria County Redevelopment officials shed new light Thursday on plans to revitalize needy neighborhoods across the county.

Police and emergency crews were kept busy responding to accidents for several hours Saturday, starting around 4 p.m., as roads began icing over from a winter storm moving through the area.