The Erie BayHawks and the Community Blood Bank are teaming up to save lives Monday. Their blood drive will be from 11 to 4pm at the Tullio Arena. All donors get a free commemorative T-shirt and a pair of tickets to the upcoming Cleveland Affiliate Night Game on February 26th.
All donors can enter to win [...]

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2009 did not end well for the Erie BayHawks. Sure, they won their last game, but they finished the calendar year with a 4-9 record (1-5 at home). If things don’t change in 2010, you can’t say they didn’t try.

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The Erie BayHawks continued their roster moves in preparation for their appearances at the annual NBA Development League Showcase by signing guard Booker Woodfox.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

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The Erie BayHawks are keeping busy this holiday season offering a number of options for entertaining the family.

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Erie adds former BayHawk Clinkscales to roster

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Bank robberies. Bayhawks. Blood Bank. Busted pipes. Mario & Luigi = stunned.

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Donations = free tickets.

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On the eve of the 2009-10 NBA Development League season, here are 10 reasons for the Erie BayHawks to be thankful.

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The Erie BayHawks fly south (well, drive) to Meadville tonight for a special preseason game against the visiting Fort Wayne Mad Ants.

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A look back at the week that was in Erie. Or something.

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The start of a new season is always an exciting time, but this year’s Erie BayHawks training camp has an extra bit of sizzle for the local following.

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Our acknowledgment of quality sports fan journalism continues this week with a shout for Blog Talk Bayhawk.

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The NBA Development League Erie BayHawks today announced they will host their first ever, home, pre-season game against the Fort Wayne Mad Ants at the Meadville Area Senior High School, November 20, in a 7 PM tip off. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the school’s stadium turf replacement fund.

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Finally someone is going to put to use the constant wind that comes across Lake Erie.  Ontario Hydro is planning to erect more than 800 wind turbines in the lake.  That’s enough to provide power for two million homes.  Sounds a lot better than some other power generation ideas that are floating around.  Now if [...]

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The NBA Development League Erie BayHawks today released their schedule for the 2009-10 season. The BayHawks will open the season with four games on the road, before returning to the Tullio Arena for the home opener, December 12 at 7 pm versus the expansion Maine Red Claws.
“This year’s schedule reflects some changes the league is [...]

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Four Erie BayHawks players have been selected to participate in NBA Summer League play in the Pepsi Pro Summer League in Orlando and the NBA Summer League by EA Sports in Las Vegas.
Combo guard Maureece Rice will take part in the Las Vegas session as part of the Cleveland Cavaliers lineup. Forward Erik Daniels [...]

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The NBA Development League Erie BayHawks are proud to lend a helping hand to Maleno Real Estate Development, the Erie-based builders who are working with ABC Television’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition to aide an Erie family.
“We are excited that the BayHawks, along with the NBA Development League and our partners at Spalding, will be able [...]

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Are you following us at Twitter? You should. It’s cool.
Last evening, Erie City Council passed a resolution saying, basically, they they oppose the building of the tires to energy plant. We don’t think that has any legal or binding power though.
Congrats to Erie blogger emeritus Eden on having her manuscript move on to [...]

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The Erie BayHawks (26-23) mounted a furious second half comeback, down by as many as 24, to defeat the Fort Wayne Mad Ants 105 – 99. The victory sealed a post-season playoff birth for the expansion BayHawks.
Maureece Rice continued his red-hot play notching a game high 36 points in the win. Erik Daniels [...]

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As we reported yesterday, things are not looking good for Shriners Hospitals. Trustees for the hospital will consider closures of the hospitals in Erie; Galveston, TX; Greenville, SC; Shreveport, LA; Spokane, WA; and Springfield, MA. Another cost cutting measure to be considered is to begin taking insurance payments, or cut the budgets at [...]

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In a surprising about-face, the Erie Zoning Board has approved the construction of the $370 million tires-to-energy plant by a vote to 3 to 2. Erie Renewable Energy plans to build at the site of the former International Paper plant. Here’s a report from YourErie:
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I think it’s safe to assume KEEP = stunned. [...]

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Vincent Davis was arraigned yesterday for the death of his 5 month old daughter Savonnia Davis. The “father” admitted to shaking his daughter because she was crying.  And if you’re still not sure what kind of guy Vincent Davis is, in addition to being charged with homicide he is also being charged with [...]

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The NBA Development League Erie BayHawks and the OHL Erie Otters are joining forces to give area fans two games for the price of one March 13 and 14 at the Tullio Arena.
Fans who purchase a ticket to the Erie BayHawks Friday, March 13 game versus the Dakota Wizards will be able to take their [...]

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February 22 through the 28 is the United Way’s Week of Thanks. Each day this week you will find specials, discounts and offers from local businesses and stores as a way to say thank you to the Erie community for their support of the United Way.
Monday
Bootleggers Bar and Grill are offering a free appetizer with [...]

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The big news of yesterday was the passing of John Kanzius. Kanzius, 64, worked at WJET for many years, including serving as the station’s general manager. For the last several years, he had been developing a technology for killing cancer cells using radio waves. He began developing this technology after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. [...]

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In an effort that fans and families can easily relate to, the Erie BayHawks are blowing the doors off the nation’s economic stimulus, by announcing an Entertainment Stimulus Plan for their February 26th game against the Dakota Wizards.
“With all the bad news about the economy and being in the middle of a long, cold winter [...]

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Today at 11:30 a.m. EST, Senator Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. Pretty much every channel on TV will be carrying it, and you can also watch it live online at Hulu.com and uStream.tv. In fact, here’s a stream from Hulu:

If you park your car on the street [...]

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If you’re reading this from Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom or New Zealand, happy boxing day!
Christmas Day was pretty much perfect in terms of the weather. A light snow fell most of the morning and into the afternoon. Things were a bit slippery in the morning, but crews did a great job keeping things moving. [...]

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In case you missed it yesterday, we’re giving away 3 $25 gift certificates to local restaurants. We’re totally in the holiday spirit. Read more and enter here.
Be careful driving today. For the most up-to-date forecast and conditions, check out the WSEE weather box in the column to the right of this post.
Congresswoman-elect Kathy Dahlkemper will [...]

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Bob at Erie’s Groceries posted this weekend that Troyer Farms is in the process of being sold to Snyder’s of Hanover. If this indeed the case, we hope that Snyder’s will keep the plant open and the people there employed. If we might also make one more request – bring back the smaller crinkles on [...]

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The Department of Justice is telling PNC they need to sell 61 National City bank branches as a condition of their purchase of the struggling bank.  11 branches in our area will be sold, including 6 in Erie County, 1 in Warren County and 4 in Crawford County.
6 local schools have been included [...]

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The Erie Bayhawks play their home opener tomorrow night at the Tullio Arena. Here’s a chance to get to know them a little bit before the big game.

We really dig those black jerseys.

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Erie is mentioned briefly in this Vanity Fair cover story about Tina Fey. Fey was able to get her husband’s parents to meet Sarah Palin at her Erie rally through her connections with the McCain campaign and SNL – not to mention her dead-on impression.
East 12th Street will remain closed between Bacon Street and [...]

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Snows yesterday caused a few crashes and made for some slippery driving. Check the box over there -> for road conditions if you’re travelling.
If you braved the shops yesterday, more power to you. We hope you got some good bargains.
A bit of good news for our area – sheriff sales were down in [...]

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The publication Keystone Edge has an interesting article on craft breweries and the future of beer distribution in PA.  Pennsylvania boasts a $7 billion brewing industry.  Missing from the article is any mention of Erie Brewing Company which recently won the 2008 Bronze Medal in the Scottish Style Ale category finishing third out of 24 other Scottish [...]

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Even as President-Elect Barack Obama begins to pick his cabinet and other key positions, two states remain uncalled from Tuesday’s election. At the time we write this, North Carolina and Missouri are neither red nor blue. In North Carolina, Obama leads 50% to 49%, and its flipped in Missouri.
Bit of a police blotter today.
James DiNicola, [...]

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Single game tickets for the new NBA D-League Erie Bayhawks went on sale this past Saturday. The first home game for the new team will be December 11 against the Iowa Energy. You can get tickets here at Ticketmaster or at the Tullio Arena box office.
Home game highlights include:
- School Kids Jam on March 5 [...]

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A fundraising event for the Lindsay Graygo Empowerment Scholarship Fund will be held tonight, August 13, from 5-8 p.m. at Molly Brannigans. Celebrity bartenders will serve up your favorite drinks and a Chinese auction will be held. Bartender tips and auction proceeds will go to directly to the fund. If you would [...]

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A recent poll shows Barack Obama leading John McCain in Pennsylvania by 4%. The Rasmussen poll was done by telephone survey of state voters with the following figures: 46% Barack Obama; 42% John McCain; 5% unspecified third-party candidate (Ron Paul hold outs?); and 8% remain undecided. This is a 2% increase over last [...]

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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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BetaJohn has tried and tried to get Erie Times News and GoErie to fix their problem with the employment classified links. The Help Wanted link was recently fixed to reflect their switch over to HotJobs but none of the links for the sub-categories work. Maybe one of the job listings is for help in their [...]

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Scores of people in the Erie area have called off work with symptoms of the flu and other illnesses. Most will head to Presque Isle State Park for ‘treatment.’ The forcast for today is sunny with a high temperature approaching the record of 95 degrees.
The Community Blood Bank is air conditioned and can take some [...]

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Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine will hold commencement ceremonies for its largest medical and pharmacy classes, along with the school’s second class of master’s degree candidates. Today at 2 pm at the Louis J Tullio Arena, 218 medical students, 123 pharmacy students and six Master of Science in Medical Education students will receive degrees. [...]

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The deal in which Teri Rhodes was expected to plead guilty on Friday hit a delay and was postponed. Everyone was in court but left without anything being accomplished. Nobody is talking. Rhodes gave birth in her Mercyhurst College apartment on August 12. The baby lived 10 minutes before the newborn girl was suffocated to [...]

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Couple of stories broke this afternoon.
Karla Mullenax-Wludyga will be leaving WJET-TV to become Special Assistant to the President and Director of Public Affairs and Communications at Gannon University in Erie. Think her first duty will be to issue a press release on her hiring. Congrats to Karla and Scott, and to Gannon for an excellent [...]

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