There is an excellent must read article by Mackenzie Carpenter in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today entitled “Erie voters fret about theirs and their children’s futures.” Maybe it’s that Pittsburgh is two hours from Erie but the story was fair and pointed out many of the positives that Erie has and not just the few negative [...]

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Dr Thomas J Gamble was official installed at the president of Mercyhurst College. Gamble replaced Dr William Garvey who resigned amid allegations that he was a sexual predator of young boys. The Mercyhurst Board of Trustees seemed well aware of the allegations against Garvey for years but seemed ok with it. The heat was turned [...]

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An elderly women drove through the wall of the Union CIty Pizza Hut. Neither the 88 year old woman nor her passenger were injured. Unbelievably no one inside the restaurant were hurt either. As everyone has reported Erie County Republican Chairman John Mizner has resigned from MacDonald, Illig, Jones and Britton and joined Conner, Riley [...]

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Millcreek School District Superintendent Dean Maynard should be the next to submit his resignation. McDowell Intermediate High School principal Tom Maciulewicz was allowed to resign instead of being fired after it was discovered there is police investigation involving Maciulewicz and the theft of school district property. There seems to be a clear path from the [...]

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There are a lot of deer in Pennsylvania and in the other states Erie Insurance serves. One in every 100 drivers nationally is likely to have a collision with a deer. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates that deer-vehicle crashes rack up $1.1 billion in property damages, tens of thousands of injuries, and more [...]

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A chemical reaction at the Steris plant sent one man to the hospital as a precaution and closed the facility for the day sending hundreds of workers home. The gas vapor was caused by the mixing of waste products that didn’t mix. An Erie, Pa. man pleaded guilty to copyright infringement in U.S. District Court [...]

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McDowell Intermediate High School Principal Tom Maciulewicz resigned Friday. Someone sent me word that Millcreek police are conducting an investigation of some missing school equipment and that the equipment was sold on eBay. Jeff Taylor has been hired as the meteorologist for CBS Chicago weekend morning news. Taylor was at WICU-TV in Erie, Pa from [...]

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Today, September 11th, 2006, an American flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment, office, and store in the United States. Every individual should make it their duty to display an American flag on this fifth anniversary of our country’s worst tragedy. We do this in honor of those who lost their lives on 9/11, [...]

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