The Greater Erie Board of Realtors reported the Erie County real estate sales for October 2007. Sales were in line with the previous year. The data includes all sales in which a property transfer tax was paid including residential, investment and commercial properties as well as land. In October 2007, there were 437 sales for [...]

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Nothing like the sun and 80 degree temperatures to bring the people out. The bayfront was busy, Waldameer Park and Water World has a great crowd, the Tom Ridge Environmental Center was bustling with people, thousands enjoyed Presque Isle State Park on the first day lifeguards were on duty on the beaches and the boaters [...]

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Harborcreek Township received a $500,000 federal grant for the for its $2.6 million Shades Beach Off-Shore Improvements Project. The latest grant will be used for a walkway and parking. The next step will be boat launches and breakwalls which could be in place by next Fall. Shades Beach is located at 7000 East Lake Road [...]

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Judge Ernie DiSantis dismissed the bribery charges against former Erie Mayor Rick Filippi and his business partners Rolf Patberg and Eric Purchase. The group who still has a bundle of charges facing them including conspiracy, conflict of interest and using inside information. Filippi, Patberg and Purchase formed a partnership called Aiko Acquisitions which bought properties [...]

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I’m not sure if the taxpayers of Pennsylvania have to be blindfolded or must gouge out their eyes but were not allowed to look while the state goes into our pockets to settle a lawsuit. Yesterday, I mentioned that Representative Linda Bebko-Jones has settled with TE Kalkhof Realty on her breaking the lease for her [...]

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If you ever thought about drinking and driving, tonight is not the night to start. The Pennsylvania State Police will be conducting checkpoints and roving DUI patrols. Alcohol-related crashes in Pennsylvania claimed 542 lives in 2004. There was a story yesterday about a house being raided due to suspected pit bull fighting. I thought it [...]

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Open you walets. Your 2006 Erie County property taxes are going up. A property with an assessed value of $100,000 will now pay $495, up $27 from this year. Along with raising your taxes, Erie County Council voted 7-0 to borrow $1 million and cut one full-time job to part-time. The official vote county for [...]

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