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Downtown Altoona has small town feel for home town gangstah’s
Downtown Altoona has been named “best little inner city” by a group of inner city mayors.
Inner City Mayors Commission bestowed the honor on Altoona during a convention held at a bar in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of New York City. The group is composed of mayors from […]

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Frickin’ Chicken. It beats flippin’ hamburgers.
The following is an editorial by a DotPenn reader, R. Frank Buckweed, a resident of the Greenwood section of Altoona and one of the area’s premier obscenity-wielders.
So, there I am, out driving the kids, even the boy, to dance class and I look up in the sky and what […]

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New Barnes and Noble book store in Altoona opens up cultural contact with rest of the world
Altoona, the town that culture forgot, took another sharp blow–this time to its thriving hair metal music scene, a musical tradition in the city for the past two decades. Since the recent opening of the Altoona Barnes and Noble, […]

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