🌱 How a 2% school tax hike could hit Roaring Spring wallets
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- How a 2% school tax hike could hit Roaring Spring wallets
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📰 News we're reading
• Spring Cove School Board discusses preliminary budget plan (altoonamirror.com) — Roaring Spring’s Spring Cove School Board is backing a 2% property tax increase, tied to creating a facility consolidation plan, to help close a projected $2 million budget shortfall for 2026-27. Board members debated options from no hike to 3%, weighing rising health care and salary costs against what local taxpayers can afford, with a final vote expected May 18. 
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Spring Keystones - Biology
Central PA Digital Lrng Foundation CS ALC & SLC
9:00 am -
Toddler Time →
Altoona Area Public Library , 1600 5th Avenue, Altoona, PA, 16602, United States
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Pinochle Club
Altoona Area Public Library , 1600 5th Avenue, Altoona, PA, 16602, United States
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Drumline Camp
Altoona Area Jr HS Altoona, PA 16602
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NJHS Induction Ceremony
Altoona Area Jr HS Altoona, PA 16602
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Board Meeting
Claysburg-Kimmel SD Claysburg, PA 16625
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FKS Fun Day (Rain date 5/15)
Hollidaysburg Area SD 405 Clark Street , Hollidaysburg, PA 16648
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School Board Meeting
Central PA Digital Lrng Foundation CS Duncansville, PA 16635
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JH Softball vs Tyrone
Altoona Area Jr HS Altoona, PA 16602
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PV Night of Music
Pleasant Valley El Sch Altoona, PA 16602
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Band Concert
Altoona Area HS Altoona, PA 16602
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Michael Harrison @McGarvey's Comedy Farm Show →
McGarvey's Bar and Grill, 623 N 4th Ave #25, Altoona
9:00 pm
Wednesday May 13
Thursday May 14
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🗞 Nearby News
Claysburg
- The Sunshine Segment: Home & Harvest Celebrated Farmstead Season in Central PA with upcoming new farmsteads you can explore! (wtaj.com)
- Win puts JV in ICC softball playoffs (altoonamirror.com)
Hollidaysburg
- Pennsylvania‑made Slinky still springs forward decades after its invention (6abc.com)
- Blair County Prison Board OKs design for new prison (altoonamirror.com)
- Hollidaysburg man arrested for alleged violations of PFA order (altoonamirror.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
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