Congrats to Julie Maggio, who won our $25 gift certificate giveaway to Sluggers Sports Bar and Grill. Thanks to everyone who entered! Police have identified the man who died in Tuesday’s crash on I-90. He is Samuel A. Thomas from Warren. Our thoughts go out to his family. Dr. Paul Heberle has pleaded guilty to [...]

VisitErie has released hotel tax proceeds for March, 2009. This March was the best March since the tax was enacted – raising $39,178 for VisitErie, compared to $37,091 in 2008 and $35,561 in 2007. Click on the image before for a more detailed graph and chart.

Gannon President Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D., will confer some 815 degrees during the University’s Spring Commencement ceremony, to be held Saturday, May 9. The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. at Tullio Arena, 809 French St (map). The graduates include 45 doctor of physical therapy degree recipients and three doctoral degree recipients. In addition, 329 [...]

I-90 was closed for several hours yesterday following a traffic accident that claimed the life of one person. Stace blogs a bit more about it here. US Senator Arlen Specter (R, PA) announced that he is switching parties to the Democratic side. He is up for re-election in 2010. The Erie Times-News has announced that [...]

Joel at The Press and Tower posted a great video over the weekend of the work that goes into creating the WSEE morning show with Raychel Vendetti and Ray Petelin, our favorite local weather dude (come on, he’s got a Twitter account and they show has a very active Facebook group.) More power to the [...]

Dr. Leslie Powers testified yesterday in a hearing to determine whether or not Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was mentally competent to stand trial. She said that despite several mental conditions, including a borderline personality disorder, she believes Diehl-Armstrong is competent to stand trial. A psychiatrist that testified for the defense disagreed, saying Diehl-Armstrong is incompetent. No word [...]

Celebrate Erie 2009, the Downtown Edinboro Art & Music Festival, the Blues & Jazz Festival, the Erie’s Heritage Festival and the Erie Summer Festival of the Arts will all still take place over the next several months thanks to grants made by local donors through The Erie Community Foundation. “In tough economic times, those less [...]

In case you missed this year’s NFL draft, here are the results for all the local teams. Pittsburgh Steelers Round 1: Evander Hood, DT, Missouri Round 3: Kraig Urbik, OT, Wisconsin Round 3: Mike Wallace, WR, Mississippi Round 3: Keenan Lewis, CB, Oregon State Round 5: Joe Burnett, CB, Central Florida Round 5: Frank Summers, [...]

Wow, now that was a nice weekend, weather-wise. If you’re like us, your weekend involved a trip (or three) to the garden store for yard stuff. We dominated some mulch. Well, dominated is a strong word. We bought mulch. We meant to spread it, but it’s still in bags in the driveway. Thank you very [...]

Mike here. This weekend is the March for Babies, an event held around the country to raise funds to support the March of Dimes and the research this great organization does. I know first hand that the research and technology developed by the March of Dimes saves lives – they saved the life of my [...]

Today’s the last day to enter our $25 gift certificate giveaway. We’ll be drawing the winners late this afternoon. Enter here. USF Holland has announced it is closing its terminal in North East. The terminal has an between 50 and 75 employees. The plant is expected to close sometime in June. The Meadville Tribune has [...]

Congrats to local bloggers Adam and Camille on the birth this week of their son Henry. If you haven’t taken a moment to enter our $25 gift certificate giveaway for Sluggers Sports Bar and Grill, you can do it right here. President Obama gave a speech yesterday in Iowa, talking about Earth Day and energy. [...]