I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

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Mel Gibson’s next film to be released is: The Beaver. Yes. Really.

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Lots of stuff going on this weekend: Key West Phest, the St. Paul’s Italian Festival, Footloose at the Erie Playhouse, and so much more. Get out there and have some fun. Yesterday afternoon, a few funnel clouds were spotted over Lake Erie. Meterologist Ray Petelin has some pictures on his blog. More news from National [...]

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Dan Mulligan didn’t know what to expect when the US Army summoned him from his civilian life as instructor at the Institute for Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst College to active duty in Iraq last January. He hadn’t fired a weapon since he retired from the military 15 years ago; what’s more, he was 48-years-old. He [...]

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In November 2007 just before her new son was born, Tia Peterson, soon to be a new single mother, made the decision that she would stay home to raise her son. She began freelancing as a virtual assistant and has never looked back. Instead, she has moved on to form a virtual assistance firm called [...]

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The Erie Times-News / GoErie.com reported that Teri Rhodes will enter a guilty plea on Friday. Everyone involved is being tight lipped about the deal. The plea deal takes the death penalty off the table. If the deal does not include a VERY long prison sentence, I think there will be community outrage. Rhodes murdered [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio using county employees on county time as his own personal labor force was the topic all weekend. DiVecchio, one more than one occasion, used a county employee on county time with a county vehicle to have his home driveway plowed. He also used county employees on county time for his [...]

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Lieutenant Colonel Richard J Berrettini died due to injuries received from an improvised explosive device attack in Khowst Province, Afghanistan. LTC Berrettini died Jan 11, nine days after the HMMWV he was a passenger in was attacked. Berrettini, a nurse practitioner, was assigned to the Pennsylvania Army National Guard Medical Detachment, Erie Clinic. He volunteered [...]

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Starting today Single Stream Recycling begins in the City of Erie. Everything can be places together in blue or clear plastic bags every week. Aerosol cans, styrofoam, pizza boxes and waxed cardboard such as milk cartons and laundry detergent boxes aren’t accepted but all other glass, plastic, paper and cardboard items can be included. Maybe [...]

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The Erie Times-News published their endorsements for Erie County Council and Erie City Council. I know we don’t have much of a choice in whom we elect given the people running. (It’s like having to choose how to die. Would you rather be shot or poisoned?) I loved the ringing endorsement they gave to Pat [...]

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Emmanuel was not born in Erie. He was born in a small village in Cameroon, in West Africa. His parents were poor, hardworking and uneducated, in the school sense. For that reason they wanted to be sure their children were educated and educated well. They wanted more for their kids than working on a farm [...]

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Erie International Airport officials asked Erie County Council for $18 million for the runway expansion project. The airport is owned by the City of Erie. County council wants the Erie Municipal Airport Authority board expanded to 9 members with 4 appointed by the county. Erie City Council hinted around that they might agree to 3 [...]

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  GoErie.com has apparently dropped their registration requirement. Smart move. Along with not having to give them personal information, you will be able to email links and search engines will be able to index the entire site. I expect the site to see a dramatic increase in visitors – maybe 50 percent more. Advertisers will [...]

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The trial of Chytoria Graham started yesterday. You could say it’s in full swing. Graham was arrested on October 8 for using her 4 week old baby as a weapon like a baseball bat to hit her boyfriend. She has previously entered a guilty plea on aggravated assault and endangering the welfare charges but was [...]

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  Port Erie Boat Works has been sold as their web site says to “an elite group of boat builders and investors.” The company manufactures catamarans and is located at 2567 W 20th St. The company had been one of the fastest growing companies around. I hope they stay in Erie and keep adding to [...]

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The family of Greg Jacobs is claiming that his organs were harvested before he died. Jacobs had a snowboarding accident at Peek ‘N Peak on March 13 and had severe head trauma. It sounds like a clerical error, but the time of death was written down nearly a half hour after his organs were removed. [...]

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  Elizabeth Hirt Vorsheck has been named as a new individual trustee of the H O Hirt Trusts. In her role as trustee of the H O Hirt Trusts, Mrs Vorsheck replaces her father, F William Hirt, who died Friday, July 13. According to the Trust Agreement the remaining trustees, Susan Hirt Hagen and Sentinel [...]

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Robin Hecker, the former 10th grade English teacher at Northwestern High School, entered into a plea deal with the DA’s office. She faces a max of 5 years in prison for having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old male student. Erie County Common Pleas Judge Elizabeth Kelly ruled that Danielle Bimber does not [...]

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  GAF Materials Corporation has closed their Erie roofing shingle plant. In January the company announced they were shuttering the 120 year old plant on the bayfront. Around 160 people were laid-off. It will be interesting to see what becomes of the property. It’s located on the bay directly to the left of the Erie [...]

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A major accident involving about 50 vehicles shut down I-90 for over 14 hours. One person died by being crushed between two vehicles. About twenty people were taken to either Hamot Medical Center or St Vincent Health Center. Hamot even sent a team of doctors and a surgeon to the scene because there were so [...]

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The state is returning $1.5 million in tax money to Erie County. Here is the complete press release. The highlights – GE Transportation Systems in Erie received $500,000 to implement lean manufacturing techniques at its rail plants in Erie and Grove City, Mercer County, a project that is expected to cost $12.8 million. GE has [...]

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Erie County Council passed a second reading of the smoking ban by a vote of 6-1.What a waste of time. A lawsuit filed in Allegheny County could make the ban moot by the end of the year. Restaurant owner there filed the suit contending that the county has no right to ban smoking. A smoking [...]

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While dozens of Erie area economic development officials were sitting on their rears and Erie City Council was raising taxes and creating a new landlord tax, Ameridrives Coupling Products of Erie announced plans to invest more than $600,000 in capital expenditures at an existing vacant building and start manufacturing disc couplings for the natural gas [...]

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The Erie SeaWolves alumni team, the Detroit Tigers, completed a remarkable upset of the New York Yahkees with Saturday’s 8-3 win. The Yankees will be playing golf while the Tigers will face the Oakland A’s in the ALCS. Nearly half of the Tigers roster are former Erie SeaWolves players. Gannon University honored four individuals at [...]

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The estate of Brittany Legler is suing the Erie County Office of Children and Youth alleging that actions and inactions by the agency contributed to her death. They’ve got a good case. Brittany Legler died from continual beatings by her adoptive mother Lisa Iarussi. Iarussi was sentenced to 7-14 years. It’s the job of the [...]

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I had to laugh yesterday at the news (newspaper story, WJET-TV story) that Erie Convention Center Authority is counter suing Nick Scott over the old convention center plans. Scott owns the big, empty plot on the NE corner of State Street and the Bayfront Parkway. The was where the contention center and hotel were originally [...]

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Erie Traffic Court manager Deborah Steff was sentenced to 11½ to 23 months for stealing more than $272,000. She was also ordered to pay full restitution for the money she embezzled. If you paid a traffic fine or a parking ticket in cash between 2002 and 2005, there is a very good possibility it went [...]

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Great story in today’s Erie newspaper about Erie photo blogger Ron Richardson and his pics of his rubber duck. Erie blogger Michael Mahler was mentioned in a Slate.com article about his comments concerning former Rep Mark Foley. Some drunk hit a telephone pole on Pine Avenue at 2:15 am breaking the pole in two. Power [...]

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The Erie Freeze and 13 other teams are leaving the AIFL and joining the AIFA – the newly created American Indoor Football Association. This seems like just a name change for the league and the booting out of league founder Andrew Haines. According to a press release issued by the new league, AIFL teams in [...]

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An of campus party in Meadville of mostly Allegheny College students got a little loud and a number of police agencies arrived and broke up the party. Over 100 people wee cited for underage drinking. Hint – if you keep down the noise and have a couple of dozen people, the police won’t come. I [...]

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