Wattsburg residents = stunned. The borough is now officially closed after three of the five supervisors resigned Monday. By rule, the borough had to be shut down and all borough business is on hold. It seems the supervisors were tired of personal attacks and accusations about how they handled business for the town. Until the [...]

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Erie Insurance reached the milestone of four million policies in force after reaching 3 million policies in force just eight years ago in 2001. Erie Insurance has been in business for 83 years and is a Fortune 500 company.  According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance is the 16th largest automobile insurer and the 21st [...]

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We blogged yesterday that Good Morning America will be in Erie on September 16. They’ll be coming in to town by train into Union Station. On this day in 1813, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry fought the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812 beating the British and forcing them to fall back from [...]

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Erie County Judge Stephanie Domitrovich ruled against lifting a deed restriction on the Erie Golf Course property. It must remain a golf course or a public park. The city wanted the restriction lifted so they could sell the property to developers. The city has about a $2 million debt from recent renovations at the course. [...]

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Meryhurst College made 2 major announcements yesterday. The bullshit was so deep the cameras could only shoot from the necks up. Mercyhurst said they were giving the City of Erie $500,000 over the next 3 years and also canceling their Fourth of July celebration. (Press release.) I can see why they dumped the Fourth of [...]

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Erie Golf Course is attracting a good number of golfers. The City of Erie spent about $2 million in renovations on the course. Only one slight problem. The city closed the course saying they lost too much money operating it. Golfers are playing for free. The idea of a lodge at Erie Bluffs State Park [...]

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Bill Sesler, the Erie attorney and developer, announced he has given up on taking over the Parade Street grocery store project. Can’t blame him. Invest Erie Community Development Corporation filed a law suit against the city because the city wouldn’t sell them the land. The city says Invest Erie doesn’t have the financing to get [...]

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  A court hearing was held yesterday concerning the Erie Golf Course. The hearing will continue in April. The city wants to sell the property while the Lake Erie Region Conservancy, the Keep Erie Golf Course Open Committee which is headed by former councilman Jim Casey, and Jim Casella, the former assistant city public works [...]

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  The Millcreek Golf and Learning Center was built on the site of a former toxic waste dump. It was completed in 2001. Township officials knew it wouldn’t be in business for long because they knew the Erie International Airport runway expansion was coming and wipe nearly half the course. But hey, it wasn’t Millcreek [...]

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Erie County Council appointed Charles Augustine to the seat formerly held by Joy Greco. Augustine spent years working as a pharmacist and part of the management team at the county owned Pleasant Ridge Nursing Home so he has a good understanding of how council operates. An official vote will take place today and then he [...]

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Judge Michael Della Vecchia of the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court issued a 4 month temporary injunction on the Allegheny County smoking ban that was to take effect on January 2. Judge Della Vecchia said the delay would give state legislators time to pass a law that more clearly defines whether local bodies may pass [...]

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Carpet bombing of the city wouldn’t have caused as much damage as Erie City Council manged to do yesterday. Council passed a $59.88 million budget for the City of Erie for 2007. Council did zero work to cut any costs. The budget proposed by the mayor was just rubber stamped by council. This could be [...]

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Nathan Rosier and Crystal Peace, the parents, and Larry Peace, the grandfather, of Nathan Wayne Rosier Jr were arrested for his death. The three adults shared a home in Waterford. The 7 month old baby died of neglect and malnutrition. The twin brother was taken from the home, spent time in the hospital recoving from [...]

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Douglas A Spadey, a Edinboro freshman from Philly, was arrested for sending racial and threatening emails to fellow black Edinboro students. Hours before he was led away in handcuffs, he was saying he was one of the victims of the emails. About 20 students received emails with the N-bomb and threats that some would be [...]

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