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Erie PA News and Events for Wednesday March 14, 2007

The Greater Erie Board of Realtors released the Erie County property transfer report for February 2007. There were 334 properties sold for $27,822,866. This compares to February 2006 when 366 properties were sold for $31,231,977. Seven of the past 8 months have been down over the previous year. There isn’t enough lipstick in the world to make this pig look pretty. The figures include residential, commercial, investment properties as well as land in which a transfer tax was paid. The are currently 1281 just residential properties listed for sale in Erie County and 2562 total listings. Click here to view the property transfers for February. If you’d like info on Erie area real estate, look through my site or contact me - Dennis Weed, Realtor, CENTURY 21 Stover Real Estate, 3409 W 26th Street, Erie PA 16506, Cell (814) 440-0636, Ofc (814) 838-2121, email dweed@century21.com.

Greg Jacobs of Bellevue Ohio died Tuesday as a result of injuries received on a ski trip at Peek’ n Peak ski resort. He was 18. This occured at the Monroeville High School annual senior class trip. He was not wearing a helmet even though his mother had given him extra money for one.

Bliley Technologies announced that it has recently brought renowned timing and frequency control pioneer, John (Jack) A Kusters, onboard as a consultant to its spin-off company, EQUATE Space-Time Technologies (co-owned by Bliley Technologies, and Allan Space-Time Solutions). Kusters, credited for the co-invention of the SC-cut crystal and a longstanding contributor to IEEE frequency control symposiums, will consult to EQUATE on its front-edge, “denied-GPS” technology designed to yield precise time, frequency, position, velocity, acceleration, local vertical and orientation in the absence of GPS signals.

Mercyhurst College forensic anthropologist Steven A Symes, PhD, a leading expert on skeletal trauma, dismemberment and mutilation, is expected to take the stand Wednesday, March 14, as an expert witness for the prosecution in what has been dubbed the “suitcase murder” trial of a New Jersey woman. Melanie McGuire, a 34-year-old fertility clinic nurse, is accused of drugging, fatally shooting and dismembering her husband, William T. McGuire, in April 2004. Authorities also charge that McGuire stashed the victim’s dismembered remains in three designer suitcases and dumped them in Chesapeake Bay.

The New Orleans Saints have hired former Atlanta defensive assistant coach Joe Lombardi as an offense coach. Before he joined the Falcons, Lombardi was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Mercyhurst College in Erie PA where he also was the recruiting coordinator.

Works by seven graduating art students are featured in the 2007 Senior Art Thesis Exhibition that opens Thursday, March 15, at Mercyhurst College’s Cummings Gallery. The artists will be honored at a reception on Saturday, March 24, from 2 to 4 pm. The event is free and open to the public.

The annual St Patrick’s Day parade will be held Saturday March 17 at 2 pm. The parade route begins at 10th and State and goes north on Sate to 3rd Street and then east to St Patrick Church.

The Northwest PA Maple Association 2007 Northwest PA Maple Taste and Tour Weekend will be held March 17-18, 10 am to 4 pm daily. Ten sugar houses in Crawford, Erie, Mercer, Warren and Venango counties open their doors during the height of maple sugaring time.

Meadowmount Trio, a frequent contributor to National Public Radio hailed as "an ensemble of seamless rapport" by The Strad magazine, will perform at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Wednesday, March 21. Meadowmount Trio appears as part of Music at Noon: The Logan Series. Its performance, which is free and open to the public, will be held at noon in the Reed Union Building's McGarvey Commons.

The Classic Rock Dance, a fund raiser for the family of Erie soldier Katie Beckwith, with the Bryan Burton Band will be held on March 24 at the Millcreek American Legion, 4109 West 12th Street in Erie (next to the Airport) starting at 8 pm. Tickets can be purchased at the door for a donation of $5 per person. Katie was injured when a roadside bomb detonated beside her Humvee in Iraq. She is presently being hospitalized at Fort Knox. The benefit is to raise money for travel expenses for her family to visit her.

Think you have what it takes to sing the National Anthem at a Double-A baseball game? Well here is your chance. The Erie SeaWolves announced their National Anthem tryouts to be held Sunday, March 25 at the Millcreek Mall. Tryouts will be held on the main stage located at the center of the mall. Registration begins at 1:30 pm and tryouts begin at 2 pm. Those interested in auditioning will perform the National Anthem for a panel of judges. Auditions must be performed a capella. For more information about the National Anthem tryouts, please contact Carol Trumbo at (814) 456-1300 or via email at ctrumbo(at)seawolves.com. SeaWolves Opening Day for the 2007 season is April 5 against the Altoona Curve. First pitch is set for 6:35 pm.

The St Martins Center 9th annual Homeownership Expo will be held March 29 from 11:30 am - 6:30 pm at the Blasco Memorial Library. There will be information on homes, mortgage products, refinancing options, homes inspections, lead paint issues and more. Admission is free and open to everyone.

Mercyhurst College welcomes noted historian Dr. Ralph Ketcham, Emeritus Professor of History, Political Science and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, who will address “Lincoln’s Union: Where it came from, and what it Meant,” on Thursday, March 29, at 8 pm in Walker Recital Hall.

 

The Erie Micro Brew Festival presented by WQLN will be held April 21 at Union Station at 14th and French Streets. There will be 2 sampling sessions 1-4 pm and 5-8 pm. All proceeds support public broadcasting and all PLCB laws apply. Attendees must be 21. Tickets will be available soon at many Erie area locations. Scheduled to attend are: The BrewErie at Union Station, The Erie Brewing Company, Southern Tier Brewing, Pennsylvania Brewery, Voodoo Brewery, The Flying Bison, Ellicottville Brewing Company, North Country Brewing Company, Hereford and Hops, Sprague Farm and Brew Works, The Buffalo Brew Pub, Magic Hat Brewing and the East End Brewing Company.

 

Dennis Weed

Posted by Dennis at March 14, 2007 7:12 AM

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