The Erie Graffiti Task Force continues to mount a crack down on vandalism. District Magistrate Judge Tom Carney, head of the group, is jumping in front of every TV camera and telling every reporter around town about the problem. Yesterday, the case of Daniel Montano of Pittsburgh was spotlighted. Montano faces life in prison and [...]

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Voter turnout in Erie County was 23.58 percent. There were no suprises, no upsets and even the represenatives that voted themselves a late night pay raise won. In the 1st Legislative District Pat Harkins won the Democratic nomination and Christine Pontoriero won the Republican side over a write-in campaign over Randy Brewer. The the 3rd [...]

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Today is election day. Vote. The polls are open until 8 pm. Bars and the state liquor stores are closed so Democrats have no excuse not to vote. There are two very interesting races. In the 1st Legislative District (East Erie), Brandy Brewer is mounting a write-in campaign against Christine Pontoriero for the GOP nomination [...]

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Tuesday is the primary election. Get out and vote. I’d bet most of you don’t know that the very first primary was held in Crawford County in 1842. It all started when the Democratic Republican Party of Crawford County couldn’t agree on which candidates to put on the ballot at their August 1842 convention. The [...]

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There are two stories by Kevin Flowers and Ed Palattella, Woman claims housing fraud drove her to financial ruin and FBI probes housing deals, in todays Erie newspaper about the FBI investigating housing and mortgage fraud in Erie. As a real estate agent in Erie, I wanted to stand up and applaud the news. If [...]

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Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott, City Controller Casimir Kwitowski, Councilman Jim Thompson and city Economic Development Director Kim Green are on a two week trip to Germany and Poland. In Germany, they will visit the Cottbus-Drewitz Airport. and in Poland, the group meets with government and business leaders in Lublin, sister city of Erie. Israel L [...]

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The Greater Erie Industrial Development Corporation was awarded $450,000 to restore rail service to the 120-acre industrial park that once was home to Hammermill and IP, initially servicing two businesses of the Erie Management Group, a multi-million-dollar bio-diesel manufacturing company and a paint/ solvent production facility. Groundbreaking on those two businesses will be held in [...]

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NanoLogix (Pink Sheets: NNLX) announced that hydrogen has been generated at its first commercial scaled-up hydrogen bioreactor facility at the Welch Food’s plant in North East, Pennsylvania. The technology behind the hydrogen bioreactor, developed and proprietary to NanoLogix, is intended to enable manufacturing facilities to convert their waste stream into hydrogen. The alternative energy source [...]

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Edwin Brown of Corry was found not guilty of assault. He was charged for spanking the six year old child of his fiance. I’m not making this up. Erie native Beverly Morris heads the National Association of Non Custodial Moms, a nonprofit support and resource group. She and her husband slit up and six years [...]

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The body of Bill Rossey of Meadville was found late Sunday in French Creek. He was reported missing in late October. Ed Palattella, of the Erie Times-News, received a Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill Award for print journalism in the Continuing Coverage category for “Garvey Era Ends,” about the resignation of alleged child [...]

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Nice job by Laura Gray of WJET-TV updating the progress at the East Erie Turners (no website). Dave Stevens of the Dave Stevens Big Band (website expired) and his business partner purchased the building and are modernizing the decor. It looked pretty good. I was under the impression that it would be open to the [...]

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