It’s time once again for a summer of great music. The Sprint Summer Music Series at Presque Isle’s Beach 1 is back for another go-around, the line-up sounds great.
June 10: Duke Sherman Blues Band and Tri This
June 17: Abbey Road and Sam Hyman
June 24: Crosstown Rhythm & Blues Band and The Heliotropes
July 1: Tennessee Back [...]

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Yesterday evening around 8 pm a young woman abandoned a newborn baby at the corner of Maryland Ave and South Shore Drive. The umbilical cord was still attached. The birth giver, the term “mother” is not appropriate, faces a number of charges.
Under the Safe Haven program, you can give up a baby at any hospital [...]

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Erie based Spectrum Control (Nasdaq: SPEC), a leading designer and manufacturer of electronic control products and systems, announced that it has acquired all of the outstanding common stock of Advanced Thermal Products. ATP, based in St Marys, Pennsylvania, designs and manufactures custom temperature sensors. The total purchase price of the acquisition was $9.3 million. This [...]

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The Lansdowne, the barge that has been sitting and rusting on the Sassafras Street pier since 1999,has been towed away to Buffalo. Specialty Restaurants Corp of Anaheim CA wanted to convert the barge to a floating restaurant before the company ran into financial problems.
Flickr photo by mattcr2006.
The official high temperature on Sunday which is measured [...]

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