Erie Insurance reached the milestone of four million policies in force after reaching 3 million policies in force just eight years ago in 2001. Erie Insurance has been in business for 83 years and is a Fortune 500 company.  According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance is the 16th largest automobile insurer and the 21st [...]

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MORE SNOW. If you are traveling out of the Erie airport today, please check with your airline regarding delays. With the winter storm in this part of the country, expect delays.  As for Erie, well, we’re getting more snow.  From Accuweather: Warm air will not be able to invade places farther to the north and [...]

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Happy Chinese New Year to our Chinese friends, family and readers. 2009 is the Year of the Ox. Also, this is post #1,700 for this fair site. Thanks for reading every day – we do this because we love Erie and want to see it thrive. Would you mind taking a second today and telling [...]

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In case you missed it, here’s text and video of President Obama’s Inaugural Address from yesterday. Moments after the speech was complete and the President and Vice-President were sworn in, they launched their new Whitehouse.gov website. That, folks, is how you do a website. XHTML transitional compliant, designed with accessibility in mind, CSS sprites, it [...]

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Pennsylvania State Police strongly believe they have the persons responsible for setting fire to the Gudgeonville bridge back in November. Joshua Bell of Albion and Jeffrey Gleason of Conneautville, both in their early 20′s, are not only suspected for the arson of the historic covered bridge but also for taking part in a larger crime [...]

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The Federal Reserve has formally approved PNC Bank‘s plan to purchase National City Bank based out of Cleveland, Ohio. With the acquisition, PNC will be the 8th largest depository institution in the U.S. As we blogged last week, PNC is required to sell 61 National City branches, including locations in Erie, Crawford and Warren counties. [...]

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View Larger MapFormer President Bill Clinton campaigns today in Erie at East High School. Doors open at 10 a.m. and and the show should start about 11:30 a.m. Here’s some additional info from Dennis’ post this morning: There are no tickets, just show up. Use the gym entrance at the rear of the school. Security [...]

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