Ah, Erie weather. Ever changing and oft-discussed, it’s something we felt was missing at this site. Well, not anymore. Now, underneath our recently updated blogs area, you’ll see we’ve added quick video weather forecasts from WSEE. In about 2 minutes, you can get a quick weather update and a peek at the 7 day forecast. [...]

Feel free to share your thoughts, comments and concerns on any Erie topic you like on our ongoing series of weekly open thread posts.   We’ve had a busy and momentous week with the election of Barack Obama–the nations first African-American president, as well as. Although ErieBlogs has an open comment policy, it reserves the right [...]

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WSEE’s Ray Petelin is easily the funniest of the local TV meteorologists, and this election themed video really drives that home. [flashvideo filename=http://media.erieblogs.com/video/1033011153318_52036.flv /] The Old Man Winter bit is hilarious. Ray has a weather blog as well.

Feel free to share your thoughts, comments and concerns on any Erie topic you like on our ongoing series of weekly open thread posts. There’s a lot to discuss right now in Erie – downtown development, the election, the financial markets. Although ErieBlogs has an open comment policy, it reserves the right to delete comments [...]

It’s hard to believe as we’re just starting to sneak into winter that baseball season is only about 174 days away. The Erie Seawolves have announced their 2009 game times and fireworks nights. Can you believe this will be their 15th season? I remember watching Jose Guillen blast a game winning home run that very [...]

U.S. Senator Arlen Specter held a town hall meeting at Allegheny College on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 10:45 a.m. in the Tippie Alumni Center.

We like to highlight businesses around our fair city that really get the new world of advertising. One of the best (and cheapest) ways to get the word out about your business is putting a quick video on YouTube. Enormis Mobile Specialities gets it – they’ve got over 60 videos on YouTube. Some videos talk [...]

What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?  The word volatile doesn’t seem to adequately describe the markets. ErieBlogs received a report that a teenage girl was shot in the face last night with what is believed to be a pellet gun. The crime occurred at 7th and Wayne at around [...]

The 680 foot tower at WQLN was damaged during the wind storms we had on September 15. The damage knocked them off the air completely for several weeks. The good news is that workers have been repairing the tower, but the bad news is that when they started examining the damage, it was worse then [...]