This week’s blog post of the week comes to us from Your Boro: Edinboro News blog, which is a newcomer to ErieBlogs and deals mainly with news and events in the Edinboro area. On Tuesday, Your Boro wrote about General McLane refusing to play games at Erie City Schools following the shooting at East High [...]

This is the big weekend for football fans and casual viewers alike. Tomorrow, the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII. You can take our Super Bowl poll here and tell us who you want to win. If President Obama would vote in our poll, we know he’d vote for the [...]

We’re two days away from Super Bowl XLIII pitting the Arizona Cardinals against the Pittsburgh Steelers. We can practically taste the wings and beer. The game starts Sunday at 6 p.m. from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida. WICU will broadcast the game locally. Bruce Springsteen will perform at halftime. Expect “Born in the [...]

Earlier this month I noticed, along with another reader of ErieBlogs, that the Penn Stater magazine featured an article about Doug Moorhead of Presque Isle Wine Cellars in Northeast, Pa. It’s a great read about PI Wine Cellars and wine making in Pennsylvania.  Doug is credited for starting one of the first two wineries in Pennsylvania [...]

Erie Insurance reached the milestone of four million policies in force after reaching 3 million policies in force just eight years ago in 2001. Erie Insurance has been in business for 83 years and is a Fortune 500 company.  According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance is the 16th largest automobile insurer and the 21st [...]

This week, we’ve started adding even more content to our Twitter feed for ErieBlogs.com. If you haven’t started following us, now’s the time. As Rich and I find interesting Erie blog posts, stories, interviews and news posts from around the world, we’ll tweet them. Over the last few weeks, we have been adding more and [...]

Folks, we know it stinks, but please, when you brush the snow off your car, get all the windows, especially the back one. Here’s a photo and post from CambridgeSprings.net yesterday. Joe Sinnott has announced he will seek a second term as mayor of the city of Erie. Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper voted in favor of [...]

REthink Erie invites individuals and businesses in Erie, Crawford and Warren Counties to participate in the REthink Erie/Workforce Development Survey. The purpose of the study is to gather important workforce development information and regional perspectives regarding a prospective community college to serve northwest PA. The survey is available on the front page of the REthink [...]

Erie native and Allegheny College student Pat Canella has started doing a video blog called the TeaCast. In each episode, he reviews various teas in every episode. What GaryVee is to wine, Pat Canella is to tea. My knowledge of tea is pretty much limited to teas that are iced or have the word zinger [...]

MORE SNOW. If you are traveling out of the Erie airport today, please check with your airline regarding delays. With the winter storm in this part of the country, expect delays.  As for Erie, well, we’re getting more snow.  From Accuweather: Warm air will not be able to invade places farther to the north and [...]

The Erie Community Foundation announced yesterday they have distributed $259,145 to thirty-four nonprofits and $19,855 worth of education mini-grants to 27 schools as part of the “Helping today” grantmaking. Also at the press conference, Mary Bula, vice president of the Growth Partnership, and Judith Fagan, project manager of ReThink Erie, presented an update of the [...]

This week’s YouTube video comes not from Erie but Harrisburg — The 2009 Pennsylvania Farm Show. This year’s farm show featured a butter sculpture dedicated to the PA state guard: You might remember from our January 9 post that the life-size butter sculpture was to be sent to Lake Erie Biofuels here in Erie to [...]

Judge William Cunningham has upheld his sentencing of Teri Rhodes. Rhodes pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of her newborn baby. Judge Cunningham sentenced Rhodes last fall to 9 to 18 years in prison. There will be a hearing on February 4 to determine if Rhodes can be released on bail pending her appeal. [...]

Chris Schroeder is back with another doodle for this week. This week, he tackles the news from last week that there may be an increase coming in tobacco taxes. You can read Chris’ blog here. It’s very good. If you have a topic idea for a doodle, post a comment and we’ll send them all [...]

Happy Chinese New Year to our Chinese friends, family and readers. 2009 is the Year of the Ox. Also, this is post #1,700 for this fair site. Thanks for reading every day – we do this because we love Erie and want to see it thrive. Would you mind taking a second today and telling [...]

Feel free to share your thoughts, comments and concerns on any Erie topic you like on our ongoing series of weekly open thread posts. Although ErieBlogs has an open comment policy, it reserves the right to delete comments that are off topic, abusive, or contain personal attacks. Be civil and be a part of the [...]

If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day. Upcoming Erie Concerts and Shows: Feb. 3: Harlem Globetrotters (tickets) Feb. 13: The Temptations, Warner [...]

Did yesterday seem downright tropical or what? Temperatures in the low 40′s make us long for Spring. The heat wave ends today, with temps not even getting to 20°. Millcreek police were investigating a robbery at a trailer mobile home and instead of a burglary, they found drug paraphernalia and at least one marijuana plant [...]

We’re all pretty sick of the cold and snow, and that’s why we were so touched this week by Ron’s very funny post at his blog, MotiveGrounds.com. The post, The City of Erie plows can kiss my rototilling @$$(NSFW), is a hilarious look at Ron’s frustrations while trying to clear the end of his driveway. [...]

DNA tests on the body found inside the burned down home on W. 29th Street have concluded that it was indeed Robert Daniels, 42, as police had suspected. On January 6, Daniels barricaded himself in the home after firing shots at police and set the house on fire. Remember when we blogged a couple of [...]

Pennlive.com has compiled a list of 329 establishments (either restaurants, bars or businesses) in the commonweath who have had violations of the state’s smoking ban reported to the Department of Health. Here the ones from Erie: Coney Island Lunch, 3015 Buffalo Road Erie Wastewater Treatment, 68 Port Access Road General Electric Transportation Systems, 2901 E. [...]

In case you missed it, here’s text and video of President Obama’s Inaugural Address from yesterday. Moments after the speech was complete and the President and Vice-President were sworn in, they launched their new Whitehouse.gov website. That, folks, is how you do a website. XHTML transitional compliant, designed with accessibility in mind, CSS sprites, it [...]

Reader Ed Kindle, professional photographer and former Erieite, alerted us to his very cool collection of old Erie postcards on Flickr. There are over 170 photos and depictions of Erie in days gone by, with interesting views of the peninsula and downtown. The set also includes scenes from Waldameer of rides long gone and the [...]

Today at 11:30 a.m. EST, Senator Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. Pretty much every channel on TV will be carrying it, and you can also watch it live online at Hulu.com and uStream.tv. In fact, here’s a stream from Hulu: If you park your car on the [...]

Welcome to the first our weekly doodles! We’re excited to have local artist Chris Schroeder on board to give us a glimpse into life in Erie by way of his always-creative doodles. He’s got a website as well as a blog where he posts whatever drawing he’s working on at any given time. For his [...]

Today we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (whose birthday is actually January 15).  You can hear a recently discovered recording of Dr. King from his 1959 visit to the country of India.  Regardless of your political beliefs or affiliations, this holiday holds an additional special meaning in light of Barack Obama’s election as the [...]

Thanks to a very late Troy Polamalu interception return for a touchdown, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Baltimore Ravens 23-14 to earn a trip to Super Bowl XLIII to face the Arizona Cardinals on February 1, 2009. It was a nail-biter until about 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter, and with these two monster [...]

Feel free to share your thoughts, comments and concerns on any Erie topic you like on our ongoing series of weekly open thread posts. Although ErieBlogs has an open comment policy, it reserves the right to delete comments that are off topic, abusive, or contain personal attacks. Be civil and be a part of the [...]

If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day. This Week’s Events Willy Wonka will be at the Erie Playhouse January 16-18. This play [...]

From reading the local blogs yesterday, it seems a lot of people had trouble getting their cars going in the sub-zero temperatures. Ron struggled, and Michael managed to get his car going but he locked himself out of his running car. We broke the story yesterday that Lord Corporation has laid off 46 employees. The [...]