The Altoona Curve announced two events to kick off the 2025 season. CurveFest will return to Peoples Natural Gas Field from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 1, with single game tickets going on sale.

This past Fourth of July, in fact, a few days before, I replaced the American flag on my brother’s (and his wife’s) military grave marker at St. Philip’s Catholic cemetery in ...