Commenter Linda left a very interesting comment yesterday about her experience with Tuesday’s manhunt on W. 25th street. I came into work around 8:30 AM yesterday morning in the building that houses the Whole Foods Cooperative on 26th & Brown’s Avenue & locked the door behind me. The street was not blocked off but there [...]

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This week’s video is a great primer to Cathedral Prep. which was founded in 1921. The video was made for Prep’s open house this past weekend. It’s a nice overview of what life is like for today’s Cathedral Prep student. When I was in high school, there was always a bit of tension when it [...]

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Get ready for some snow today — two to four inches in the snow belt. Drive careful! It must finally be winter time — Mike heard Christmas music in the Wal-Mart last night. Terrible news to the many people who have ever had the opportunity to visit the Gudgeonville Bridge in Girard.  This past weekend [...]

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Looks like there won’t be any baby Bald Eagles at Presque Isle State Park. Linda posted pictures of the nest and a write-up on her blog. She said a park volunteer told her there was an attack on the nest by a rogue eagle (or another predator). International Paper closed it’s plant in Erie on [...]

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A jubilant celebration will take place on Monday, May 19 beginning at 10:30 am at the corner of Manchester and West Lake Road, where only a pile of dirt presently exists. The celebration will mark the official ground breaking of the newest branch of the Erie County Public Library, the West County Library Branch (WCLB). [...]

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  Port Dover is out for the destination for ferry service across Lake Erie from Erie to Ontario, Canada. Norfolk County Mayor Dennis Travale said Port Dover Recreational Harbour Marina is now out. I’m not sure if anyone in Erie knows this. The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority commissioned a 65 foot boat which will be [...]

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  Bishop Michael J Murphy, the former bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie passed away on Tuesday. He was 91. He became head of the Erie Diocese in 1978 succeeded retiring Bishop Alfred M Watson. Murphy served as Erie’s Catholic bishop until his retirement in July 1990.   Erie Cathedral Prep has a [...]

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  Saint Vincent Health Center has become an affiliate of Catholic Health Partners of Cincinnati. Affiliate in this case means taken over by. I don’t care if they say St V’s will still be run by people in Erie or that it will help them in recruiting doctors, it’s no longer a local hospital.   [...]

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Erie County Council appointed Charles Augustine to the seat formerly held by Joy Greco. Augustine spent years working as a pharmacist and part of the management team at the county owned Pleasant Ridge Nursing Home so he has a good understanding of how council operates. An official vote will take place today and then he [...]

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  Over 900,000 Pennsylvania hunters will head into the woods today for the first day of rifle season for deer. The season officially opens 30 minutes before sunrise. In 2005, 45 percent of antlered bucks were taken on the first day. Schools and many businesses are closed. This year’s season ends December 9.   Cody [...]

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Grand River Village, Ohio Mayor Chris Conley will be Columbus today to hear that a proposal to bring an international ferry terminal to the village is viable. Conley expects state and federal grants of $50 million which should attract an additional $150 million to $250 million in private investment. The village would build docks for [...]

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The Invest Erie Community Development Corporation was founded for one mission. To build a grocery store at 19th and Parade Streets. So far they have failed and wasted over $400,000 in your tax dollars doing so. They also have a stack of unpaid bills. In a more perfect world, this would be illegal and those [...]

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Congrats to Jenny and Mike on the birth of their son Grady Matthew. Grady was 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Both mother and son are healthy and doing great. Me: When is the Erie Management Group going to start the move to the former Hammermill/ IP plant and have their groundbreaking? Boss man: They have already [...]

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Thomas Giusti was arrested for the murder of Stacy Watral. Watral was found stabbed to death in Greene Township on Friday. Poilce attempted to interview Giusti on Saturday. He agreed to drive to the State Police barracks but as he was going there with the troopers following him, he jumped out of his vehicle at [...]

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He doesn’t want to race the truck but he does want to get into a race. Pat Harkins announced he will run against Linda Bebko Jones for the Democratic nomination for the 1st District seat in the state House of Representatives. Harkins is a driver for UPS. During his announcement he cited that Jones voted [...]

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Christmas shopping season opened yesterday. With nearly every imaginable retail chain store, upper Peach Street is a shopping mecca. The area was busy from 4:30 am onward. With no sales tax on clothing, people from hundreds of miles around come to shop. Buses and cars with license plates from Ontario, New York and Ohio at [...]

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Erie City Council will work on the 2006 City of Erie budget this week. There are reports that the mayor’s proposed budget call for over 60 more layoffs. Interesting how it calls cuts to the Streets Department, Parks Department, Bureau of Police and the Fire Department but few at city hall. A week ago, Mike [...]

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