Discover Presque Isle was held this past weekend and despite the scattered showers, there was a pretty good turnout. We’d like to hear from those of you who made it down to the event by leaving your comments below.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that travel to Canada is down largely due to the new border [...]

Hey everyone, Yourboro here- I was recently asked to report on local happenings around the Edinboro area for Erie Blogs,  I’d just like to thank Erie Blogs for giving us the opportunity to post here as well. On with the news-
Gold Star changes locations
One thing students and residents might notice returning to Edinboro from spring [...]

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 [...]

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 weeks [...]

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. Lake Road
Hibachi Japanese [...]

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 [...]

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 defenses, [...]

Back in September, we featured a YouTube video of a tour of Brewerie with Brewmaster Gary Burleigh. This is a new video, from a tour held on January 3, so it’s neat to see what’s new and different.

We did some sledding this weekend, which is just about the only activity that’s fun in this weather (plus it was either shovel the driveway or sled, easy choice.) As I was surfing around the web last night, I found this comic by xkcd. Not much to do with Erie, but it was cute.
So, [...]

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