Nanty Glo News

The 49th Annual Pennsylvania State Championship Fishing Tournament concluded Sunday with the crowning of the champion angler Greg Kozora of Cabot at 22.97 pounds.

Officials from Nanty Glo, Northern Cambria and Patton were on hand in Patton on Thursday to view a demonstration of a boom-mower that all three municipalities are considering purchasing together.

Police from across the area are searching for the man they said robbed a 1st Summit Bank branch Thursday in East Taylor Township.

A Cambria County man has been discharged from the hospital after he was struck by a commercial truck Wednesday on Route 422 in Pine Township.

Some people feel limited by age, afraid to take on new challenges or make changes in the autumn of their lives.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM Through a series of trumped-up stories and assumed identities, "Chase Me Comrade" mushrooms into a hilarious play.

The 4-H livestock sale Thursday was the high point of the Cambria County Fair for many youngsters who worked all year raising their animals and then reaped the benefits at the auction.

Early afternoon at the Cambria County Fair draws a more subdued crowd. Before the rides start whirring and the neon lights flash, people lazily walk the barns, checking out the prize beef and Play-Doh artwork.

Amanda Strittmatter, daughter of Bernie and Tess Strittmatter of Ebensburg, has been awarded the Delta Epsilon Sigma National Scholastic Honor Society scholarship for the 2008-09 school year.

The following is a list of wanted people in Cambria County, released by the county sheriff's department.

The lunch crowd at Central Park wasn't aware of the surveillance camera watching their every move.

In this day and age of shrinking populations and stagnant tax bases, small, rural municipalities such as Nanty Glo are finding it increasingly difficult to stand alone.

Borough Council members will hold a special meeting to decide which local bank will write a $200,000 loan for the borough's upcoming road paving project.

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Do you think the Los Angeles city council was right to ban fast food restaurants in southern L.A.? Yes, this is a good step to improving health and reducing people's weight.

Lindsey Moore grew up riding with her parents on a motorcycle and often rode in motorcycle runs that raised money for charities.

Case pending. Samuel Ronald Poprich, 23, of the 400 block of Locust Street, Johnstown, was charged with receiving stolen property.

Now that Nanty Glo Borough engineers don't need a stormwater control permit for the new Burns Street Development, they have found themselves about two months ahead of schedule.

For years after the Nanty Glo Shirt Factory closed for good, the building that once employed local seamstresses stood empty, silent.

For years after the Nanty Glo Shirt Factory closed for good, the building that once employed local seamstresses stood empty, silent.