We are very pleased to announce that we will soon have some great guest bloggers providing articles for your enjoyment.Also, if you are interested in becoming a guest blogger, or know someone who would be, contact us and we will get back to you within …

Local groups part of 275,000 non-profits countrywide who have lost their tax-exempt status.

So, after 8 loooooooooooong months on dry land, i was finally able to hit the water this morning. it was awe… wait for it… some! That is until i got about halfway across the lake and my arms realized what was happening, came to the realization that…

I made it through yet another cold winter here in Erie. Why am I blogging about this fact in June you ask? Well, it was literally cold a month ago. I was waiting for the consistency of warm days, and it’s finally happened! Yippy! Of course now that the…

I can’t stand a liar. Because the Captain’s alphabet diagnoses include Reactive Attachment Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder, he’s found lying a very convenient way to get under my skin. We have practiced a no-tolerance policy for lying for all of my children, but him most especially.  Transgressions on their own carry one punishment; lying [...]

Tug VICTORY and JAMES L. KUBER arrived at 0530 this morning and docked at the Mountfort Terminal. The duo unloaded there for two hours, delaying the PRESQUE ISLE’s arrival. PRESQUE ISLE arrived at 0730 after the KUBER moved to the Old Ore Dock, turned …

Thanks for everyone who purchased a 2011 Season Pass this year! We hope you enjoy the summer fun at Waldameer! But even if you didn’t get a chance to purchase a Season Pass this year, there are still great deals for you and your family to save on Walda…

Attention local drivers: if you see a height limit on a bridge, you’d be wise to heed it.

We went to the gorge again this week and these were the pictures I took,Erika jumped!Amanda jumped!Two girls jumped!

On Monday night, The Chick and a couple of our friends went to the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland to hear Something Amazing. Well, more specifically, Someone Amazing.

Zoe Keating.

If you’ve never heard Zoe Keating before, you really need to right n…

Again it’s been quite some time since my last post.  I let a negative comment get to me and it threw out my confidence.  However I was reminded that people can be idiots and to not let them spoil my mood or my writing.

It’s been 15 weeks sin…

The women I work with threw a baby shower for me a friend and coworker of mine who is due with her first little girl five days before me.  On each of the tables was this poem.  I had not heard it before but I’m told it’s made the rounds on th…

To be perfectly honest, I really love the idea of including a humans.txt file with web projects; after all, “we are people, not machines.”
However, as Matt Cutts of Google pointed out to me the other day on Twitter, it lacks a certain level of standar…

June is a great time of year to get outdoors and go camping! The meadows are alive with buttercups, wild phlox, fawns, and the smell of honeysuckle fills the air! Not only are all of those things true at Meadville KOA, but we also have a schedule tha…

Someday when I’m independently wealthy and have government health benefits and lots of free time on my hands, I’m going to roam the country and perform monologues on big stages with fancy velvet curtains and small ones with no curtains at all. I t…

Still no big boom boom. Or something.

VICTORY/barge JAMES L. KUBER are expected in Erie with the first stone cargo in over a month when they arrive at 0400 Wednesday with stone from Calcite.PRESQUE ISLE is currently unloading in Detroit and expected in Erie Wednesday for repairs.
Erie Ship…

By out here I mean the internet. The World Wide Webz.Slowly people have kind of let me know where they are at in regards to their situations. It’s not much different than my circumstances. Some are in worse shape and others might be doing a bit bett…

Over the weekend, if your face wasn’t in a rack of ribs, it was probably in my booth. Kicking off the season for Doodle Tour 2011, I drew caricatures at Erie’s Rib Fest. I would like to give a BIG THANKS to everyone who stopped by to say “hi” or to be …

It seemed to creep up on them unexpectedly.

First off, I would like to offer a BIG congratulations to Bob Merski for his win in the Erie City Council primary election! So go check out Bob’s website (we made it). :)
With that, we’d like to formally announce the launch of two websites. The first b…

East High seniors shared their three words.

"Let’s go to Buffalo!" my husband said two days ago. I was not too excited to go as we visited Buffalo often. Buffalo, NY is our neighboring city and it takes us only one and a half hour to drive there. Over a few years, we knew some friends in Buffalo and thus we visited Buffalo many times. This time, my husband said, we are going to see a folk festival. It was held in Nia-wanda Park, in the

OMG!

What a superfun weekend.

The Chick will write about this, too, no doubt, but I thought I would mention what we did because it was so fun!

This weekend, we had the opportunity to go to Chautauqua Institute to hang out.  It was a really cool…

Just recently the Wellsville TV show won an “Excellence In Broadcasting Award” in the category of “Outstanding Television Program Design For Children” from the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters (You can see an article here) It’s pretty exciting …

Let’s face it, no woman wants to go bathing suit shopping. Harsh fluroescent lights, dry winter skin and and that little bit of “winter storage” around our middles can make any woman forgo any form of swimsuit and spend the rest of the summer in capri …

Sometimes I forget I started this blog to keep track of what’s going on in our lives so I can look back and see where we were and what we were doing.  I usually feel if I’m going to post something it needs to have a picture or a cute story which o…

Luedtke Engineering Company will begin harbor dredging on June 20 with the tug ANN MARIE and a dredge. The dredging work in the channel is expected to last about two months. Tug ANN MARIE is 71 feet long and was built in 1980. Last winter, it sank on t…

Memorial Day we went to the cottage in Chautauqua to enjoy the fam and some sun! Here is Shaney with his wonderful mommy!We also got to see the new 22′ aqua patio pontoon boat! Very fun!Brian & Bibi kayaked for their very first time.As we headed ou…

A chance to win some ox roast? I’m there.