Nick Caccavo of Erie died after the 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee he was riding into rear ended a tractor-trailer on I-80 in Clearfield County. Caccavo was majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State. He graduated from Northwestern Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy.   Steven Sterrett of Erie, Pa died at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center multiple severe [...]

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Chrysler has named former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli as the new chairman and CEO of the automaker. Nardelli has pretty strong ties to Erie. Chrysler might not build a plant here but a number of Erie companies supply Detroit automakers. Nardelli got Tom Ridge of Erie appointed to the board of directors of Home [...]

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County Executive Mark DiVecchio is scarring me. Maybe he isn’t the bumbling goof he was thought to be. He again sounded reasonable and wants to save the taxpayers of Erie County a possible lawsuit by delaying the smoking ban until May 1 saying the delay would give the state legislature time to fix the law. [...]

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Daniel Parry of Erie PA, an EMT and technical systems installer in Chicago, died in a Christmas morning in a automobile accident in Humboldt Park, IL. Parry was ejected from the backseat of the 1997 Totoya he and three friends were riding in was hit by a speeding pickup. He was wearing a seatbelt. Parry [...]

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Carpet bombing of the city wouldn’t have caused as much damage as Erie City Council manged to do yesterday. Council passed a $59.88 million budget for the City of Erie for 2007. Council did zero work to cut any costs. The budget proposed by the mayor was just rubber stamped by council. This could be [...]

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Raychel Vendetti and Ray Petelin of WSEE are doing double duty hosting “IE Live!” on KHIZ-TV, a 30 minute news show. The show is being touted as being a local Victorville, CA show but Vendetti and Petelin are doing the it via satellite in Erie PA, 2360 miles away. It appears KHIZ are deceiving the [...]

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  Erie Firefighters will be getting a sweet Christmas bonus thanks to Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott, Fire Chief Tony Pol and Erie taxpayers. The city will allow firefighters to purchase circa 1890 Gamewell Fire Alarm Call Boxes for $100 each and pedestal mounted Gamewell’s for $200, a fraction of their worth. Unless the glut of [...]

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  Erie area residents can recycle their old telephone books and also help the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania, thanks to Idearc Media, the official publisher of Verizon Print Directories and Erie Energy Products. A $5,000 grant from Idearc Media to the Second Harvest Food Bank will enable Second Harvest to continue to [...]

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Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott yesterday submitted his budget to Erie City Council. It calls for a 12.14 percent increase in property taxes of 1.24 mills, the elimination of 16 firefighters and the sale of the Erie Golf Course. Although departments were asked to cut expenses, no job cuts will be made in the 5 story [...]

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Mayor Joe Sinnott will present his 2007 budget to the Erie Chapter of the Flat Earth Society, aka Erie City Council, this morning at 9 am. Without a shadow of a doubt, it will call for an increase of property taxes. Property owners will have the double whammy of lower property values along with the [...]

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