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1 week ago | altoonamirror.com | Ira Kaufman

May 3, 2025 By Ira Kaufman [email protected] I had a simply unbelievable experience at the NFL Draft in Green Bay. From 1992-2015, I went to almost every single NFL draft at Radio City Music Hall, but in 2015 the draft began going to cities around the country. Last year in Detroit was my first non-New York draft. I flew to Green Bay from West Palm through Chicago into the Appleton, Wisconsin Airport. Small town hospitality cannot begin to describe landing in Appleton as the “host...

2 weeks ago | altoonamirror.com

Sam Rutledge and his wife have a baby due in mid-July, so they thought they had a few more months to research and buy the gear they’ll need. But President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement in early April turned the couple’s slow walk into a sprint. In the past few weeks, they’ve bought two strollers, a […]

2 weeks ago | altoonamirror.com | Wayne Stewart

March Madness actually trickles over into April when a new NCAA champion is crowned. So, with basketball insanity still in the air, a look at some interesting facets of the sport is in order. Pittsburgh doesn’t really have strong basketball roots even though the city was the home of the American Basketball Association’s Pipers/Condors. In the Pipers’ inaugural season, 1967-68, they won the first-ever ABA title behind legendary forward/center Connie Hawkins.

3 weeks ago | altoonamirror.com

A slow-moving, active storm system brought heavy rain, large hail and tornadoes to parts of Texas and Oklahoma and left three people dead as severe weather warnings Sunday continue to threaten parts of the south-central and Midwest U.S. On Easter Sunday, communities in Texas and Oklahoma were beginning to assess the damage wreaked by tornadoes. […]

3 weeks ago | altoonamirror.com

LOCK HAVEN — The Tyrone girls track and field team won the Lock Haven Invitational over 12 other teams Friday. The Lady Eagles bested runner-up DuBois, 109-89.5. Nicole Ramsey won the triple jump with a distance of 36 feet, 1/4 inch and was second in the long jump with a distance of 16 feet, 7 […]