Choo-choo…

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Bob Sanders is injured again. Then again, aren’t we all day to day at this point?

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What’s that I smelt?

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Indianapolis Colts DB and Erie native Bob Sanders was profiled by WISH-TV in Indianapolis. The station traveled to Erie to interview Bob’s parents. Stephan Koller of GE Transportation in Erie had his letter to the editor of the Jakarta Post published in today’s edition.  He responded to the newspaper’s previous coverage of Erie and the [...]

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Indianapolis Colts safety Bob Sanders of Erie, PA was named the Associated Press 2007 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Voting wasn’t even close as Sanders received 31 first place votes. Two other tied with 4 each. Sanders was a two time all-state performer for Erie Cathedral Prep and went on to star at Iowa. [...]

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In a story that just tears your heart out, Robert Riddle went into the ICU at UPMC Northwest in Cranberry Township on Friday. He took his wife’s life and then his own. Shirley Riddle had Alzheimer’s and was being treated for internal bleeding. John Gillette, a science teacher at James W Parker Middle School in [...]

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  Toni and Guy HairDressing Academy had a bomb threat yesterday which shut down the school and a good chunk of downtown Erie. Of course police didn’t find anything. Triangle Tech had bomb threats on Nov 20 and again on Nov 21.   Advance America, the cash advance company, is closing all their Pennsylvania locations. [...]

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  Kevin Mahoney fo Erie PA was named a Carnegie Medal winner yesterday by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. The law student at Ohio State University had recently graduated from Penn State University and still was living in State College the morning of April 2, 2006. Mahoney and Matthew Emmerling saved Seth Mattleman and others [...]

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  Here’s a warning to area politicians and economic development officials so they don’t look like deer in the headlights and can’t say “We had no idea” on the news. Erie is in danger of losing the International Institute of Erie. Refugees from Bosnia to Sudan have settled in Erie and have become part of [...]

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A train derailment in Westfield NY, about 30 miles east of Erie, caused train traffic delays from Chicago to NYC. The CSX freight train had only a half dozen of the cars jump the track. There were no injuries. Traffic was diverted to the Norfolk-Southern line. Erie is experiencing it’s coldest temperatures in nearly 4 [...]

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  Timothy Flanagan was going to take a job as a probation officer in Erie PA when his faculty advisor, Gannon Univeristy anthropology professor Jude Kirkpatrick, told him to go to grad school. After graduating from Gannon he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in criminal justice at the State University of New York at [...]

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Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott appointed Ron Komorek acting city finance director. Komorek was the Erie County Finance Director for a number of years. He retired when Rick Shenker took office. Komorek started the job less than 18 hours after City Finance Director Gary Peterson announced his resignation. This might have been in the works for [...]

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The Greater Erie Unity Committee (no website as it is still about 1994 for most people in Erie County) announced that they now have enough signatures to place the question or weather or not to form a study commission to consider a merger between the City of Erie and Millcreek Township. The study will likely [...]

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Therapeutic Riding of Erie County promotes the benefit of the horse for individuals with physical, emotional and learning disabilities. They are raising money to offset medical care costs for Archie, a quarter horse. If you wish to make a donation to help defray medical costs, checks can be sent to: Therapeutic Riding of Erie County, [...]

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It’s election day. Vote. The county announced that that the public saftey building housing the Erie County Hazardous Materials Response Team and the Erie County 911 Center will be built on property located on the former Hammermill/ IP plant property. Steelers fans and Browns fans can go head to head this week to compete for [...]

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