If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day. Upcoming Erie Concerts and Shows: Feb. 13: The Temptations, Warner Theatre (tickets) Feb. 19: Jerry [...]

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Along with Mothers Day, three area colleges have their commencements this weekend. Hotels are packed and there are waits at restaurants. The Edinboro University of Pennsylvania commencement will be held today at 1 pm at McComb Fieldhouse with 831 students receiving degrees. The Gannon University commencement will be held today at 2 pm at the [...]

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Kevin R Molloy has been named as the new executive director of the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority. Molloy was the general manager of the new Erie Bayfront Convention Center. He had been on the job since 2002 and saw though it’s construction to it’s opening. Jason Phasey and Justin Fuller were arrested for spray [...]

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US Senator Hillary Clinton will make a campaign stop in Erie on Tuesday, April 1. She will appear at Mercyhurst College, 501 East 38th St in Erie (map) at the Mercyhurst Athletic Center (campus map). You do not need a ticket as it’s on a first come, first in basis. Security will be tight so [...]

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GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that it plans to hold its 2008 Annual Meeting of shareholder on April 23, 2008 in Erie, Pennsylvania. The meeting is expected to be held at the Erie Bayfront Convention Center. GE Transportation produces the world’s most advanced locomotives in Erie, while the Company has 13 total sites around the [...]

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Keep Erie’s Environment Protected (KEEP) will hold a meeting today at 7 pm in Erie City Council chambers at 7th and State Streets to discuss the proposed tires-to-energy plant. Four speakers are scheduled – 3 are from outside of the area. The group has been vocal, but a recent poll on YourErie.com shows the community [...]

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  Philadelphia Governor Rendell joined hundreds of area officials and residents to formally dedicate the Erie Bayfront Convention Center. “I’m pleased the commonwealth was able to help make this project a reality,” Governor Rendell. “As one of the largest development projects in Erie’s history, this complex serves as a terrific example of what can be [...]

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  The Erie Bayfront Convention Center opens today. Rooms for conventions, weddings, banquets, meetings, exhibits and classes range from space for 52 to 1920 people with theater style seating for up to 4114. It will be open for public tours 12-6 pm August 17 – 19.   The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine has [...]

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  Workers are putting the finishing touches on the Erie Bayfront Convention Center. It’s scheduled to open in two weeks. Rooms for conventions, weddings, banquets, meetings, exhibits and classes range from space for 52 to 1920 people with theater style seating for up to 4114.   Elisabeth Baldanza was crowned Miss New York. Baldanza, from [...]

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  The pedestrian bridge linking West Dobbins Landing and the Sassafras Street Pier was lifted into place yesterday. The climate controlled walkway will link the Erie Bayfront Convention Center with the parking garage. The Erie Bayfront Convention Center is now booking events for the Summer of 2007 and beyond. Rooms for weddings, banquets, meetings, exhibits [...]

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Herman Bowman is sitting in jail and it might be his new home for awhile. Bowman worked at the Erie Wastewater Treatment Facility. He didn’t like the way his boss for treating him and met with someone in the human resources department. Bowman said that if his boss didn’t get off his case he would [...]

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  Presque Isle Downs and Casino opened yesterday to huge crowds. They estimated that 10,000 visited on opening day. I think that number is being very conservative. I think it was closer to 15,000. It seemed that about 60 percent of the cars in the lot had Pennsylvania tags. There were a ton of people [...]

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  The White House has nominated Lieutenant General James M Dubik of Erie PA to take charge of training Iraqi military and police forces. Dubik has been commanding general at Fort Lewis and I Corps since 2004. He graduated from Holy Rosary, Erie Cathedral Prep and in 1971 graduated from Gannon University with a bachelor’s [...]

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If you can read, thank your parents. If you can read this in English, thank a Veteran. The Erie Bayfront Convention Center is now booking events for the Summer of 2007 and beyond. Rooms for weddings, banquets, meeetings, exhibits and classes range from space for 52 to 1920 people with theater style seating for up [...]

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The state returned $17 million in tax dollars to the Erie area on Friday with five grants through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. The Erie Bayfront Convention Center received $6.5 million for a 300 space parking ramp, Gannon University received $4 million for their Erie Technology Incubator which will allow for the renovations to the [...]

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WJET-TV reported that Nick Scott will drop two lawsuits and pay Erie`s Convention Center Authority $1 million in exchange for managing the Erie Bayfront Sheraton Hotel and gaining naming rights for the Erie Bayfront Convention Center. My advise – don’t do it. The Erie Convention Center Authority has spent close to a million dollars defending [...]

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It looks as though Lancaster PA is scrapping plans for their downtown convention center and hotel project. Bids for the $140 million project came in at $20 million over budget. Nearly $30 million has already been spent. The $95 million Erie Bayfront Convention Center is $9 million over budget. The Erie project is on schedule [...]

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David McHenry was charged with the murder of Joshua DiBello. Police also recovered the murder weapon yesterday. Tips and details by the public along with good police work solved this crime in less than a week. I received the following: Jared Smith is an American citizen, born in Erie, PA, he is 25 years old [...]

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The Shauna Howe murder trial is expected to go the jury as early as today. James and Timothy O’Brien are accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering 11 year old Shauna Howe thirteen years ago this week. Shauna was walking home from a Halloween Girl Scout party in Oil City on the evening of October 27, [...]

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The Erie Bayfront Convention Center received $15 million in funding to support it’s the development and construction. The Erie County Convention Center Authority received the 20-year, $750,000 annual grant to assist in the pay-back of a tax-exempt bond to be issued by the ECCCA for construction of the Convention Center. The funding will support the [...]

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