One of the buildings near 15th and German being destroyed for the EMTA expansion.  Those jaws were amazingly efficient.

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Witness, 2011. 

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Crumbling, graffiti-adorned warehouse, soon to be demolished.  Almost saved and converted into a hotel by the late Stephen McGarvey.  Now eight stories of emptiness. 

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1500 German, a building in the way of the EMTA expansion.

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Division Street, 2011.  This street will close and the buildings nearby will vanish as the EMTA begins wiping out entire city blocks for its expansion.

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Are you ready to be counted?

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Secretly, we kind of like days like yesterday – windy and drizzly. Not every day, mind you, but once in a while, it’s nice. We should have a few more days like that this week. Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong has a new lawyer – Douglas Sughrue. Of course, she could always change her mind 12 more times. [...]

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The EMTA and Gannon University are now offering free transportation for students,faculty, and staff with a Gannon I.D. card. Kudos to Gannon & EMTA for providing this service. Wonder if other local colleges will do the same?

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It’s Friday. We made it. It was looking a little sketchy there for a bit, but we persevered. Say, do you use tools like Facebook or Twitter? Did you know you can connect with us at those sites? Check out our Facebook page and our Twitter stream. Lots of great content and people in both [...]

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Tonight is Erie’s downtown d’Lights beginning at 6 p.m. The annual lighting of downtown Erie kicks of the Christmas Season with a number of events.  If you take pictures of the event and upload them to your Flickr or some other image repository, let us know and we’ll link to your pictures in tomorrow’s news [...]

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EMTA has fired bus driver David Justka. Justka has been involved in several accidents over the past few years, one of which was fatal. Justka was previously fired by EMTA, though an arbitrator awarded him his position back. City of Erie police are searching for a male who used a BB gun to rob two [...]

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Erie County has posted the 2009 Budget Proposal for review. We’re don’t understand why this wasn’t posted weeks ago when it was announced. MTR Gaming is moving ahead of schedule with installing Robert Griffin as the new president and chief executive of MTR, beginning November 1 instead of January 1, 2009.  MTR did not explain [...]

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David Justka has been a bus driver for EMTA. In 2000, he hit a pedestrian and in 2005, he hit and killed David Sanders, who was on a bicycle at the time. He was fired after that incident yet for some reason an arbitrator awarded him his job back. On Tuesday, he struck a 16-year-old [...]

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Erie City Council voted unanimously to go after the money the city loaned for the dead Koehler Square Brewery project. The city probably won’t see a dime as National City Bank and the state get any money first but maybe it will teach future would-be developers that government funds aren’t just free money. The Greater [...]

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Teri Rhodes gave birth in her Mercyhurst College apartment on Sunday. The baby was born alive. Rhodes murdered her baby minutes later by suffocating the unfortunate child. Police found the baby in a plastic bag. Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook declared the death a homicide. Erie County District Attorney Brad Foulk has not yet filed [...]

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Augustus Allen III, who was recently fired by the EMTA (Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority, the bus company), was arrested for making terroristic threats after he said he’d shoot the place up. Three adults and one juvenile in Erie have been arrested for threatening to repeat the Virginia Tech massacre.   The U S Brig Niagara [...]

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  I talked to someone at Presque Isle Downs and Casino that said 8-9 out of town buses have scheduled trips to Erie but out local bus company, the EMTA (Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority) still hasn’t made a decision on providing service. Has anyone told them the place is open and employs 700 people that [...]

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On Monday, the Holyoke (Massachusets) Redevelopment Committee will get an update on negotiations between the city and Mandalay Sports Entertainment of Los Angeles. The company has proposed relocating its Double-A baseball team from Erie, Pa and investing $110 million to build a 6,500-seat stadium, housing, offices and retail space. Mandalay, owner of the Erie SeaWolves, [...]

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The Millcreek School District appealed dozens of property assessments along the lakefront. Frank and Janet Mlakar, one of those whose property was reassessed at a much higher value, spoke last night at the school board meeting. He was upset that his property assessment went from $220,900 to $400,000. The land is valued at $302,000 and [...]

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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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