We reported yesterday that Erie Management Group created a video about Erie. I tried all day to watch it, but their servers were getting hammered. I did manage to grab the video and post it to Google Video, which can handle the load. EMG – I’d recommend putting a hi-res version of this video on [...]

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Erie Management Group has a new video on their site called ‘Erie: A Great Place to Live and Work.’ The link to the popup in on the right side of the site. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands, wait till someone posts it on YouTube. Gannon University has placed a job [...]

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Pennsylvania State Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce pleaded not guilty to mail fraud and money laundering charges. Joyce was not present for his arraignment but instead his attorney entered the plea. Maybe Joyce was busy golfing. Joyce did announce he will not seek reelection. Joyce was scheduled to be on the November ballot for a [...]

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  Roar on the Shore kicked off yesterday in spectacular fashion with over 2,000 motorcycles parading through the city. The event continues today beginning at 9 am at Liberty Park. Bands will be performing all day at the Pepsi Amphitheatre. Entry fee is $5. All proceeds from Roar on the Shore support the John Kanzius [...]

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Gene ‘Tom’ Robarts tonight will be celebrating the class reunion of Erie Strong Vincent High School Class of 1962. He won’t be there in person. Robarts has ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. He’ll be joining his friends from over 1,000 miles away near Tampa Florida via a web cam. The Great Erie County Board of [...]

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  John Brigham has been named President and CEO of Erie Management Group following the resignation of Stan Shumway. No idea why Shumway left. Samuel P “Pat” Black III founded the company with Shumway when Black decided he wanted to invest his family fortune in Erie. The Black family made their money though Erie Insurance. [...]

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  Spectrum Power Management Systems, a division of Spectrum Control, is kissing the Erie area goodbye and relocating their manufacturing, logistics and headquarters operations to State College, Pennsylvania. Spectrum Power Management Systems provides power distribution solutions for systems requiring distribution of power or for those that require circuit protection and/or power cycling. Spectrum offers standard [...]

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  Great news for Erie PA and the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority. Erie Management Group is now in the Great Lakes shipping business. EMG now is the majority shareholder of Great Lakes Feeder Lines. The mission of Great Lakes Feeder Lines is to provide a competitive, reliable and environmentally responsible alternative to the existing surface [...]

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Thomas Macuilewicz, the former principal at McDowell Intermediate High School, was arraigned on charges of theft yesterday. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing and all charges were bound over for trial. Macuilewicz took nearly everything of value that wasn’t nailed down at the school – computers and musical instruments including 14 synthesizers. Macuilewicz [...]

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The best argument against democracy is five minutes of an average Erie City Council meeting. However, they did pretty well last night electing Joseph Schember to fill the counicl seat caused by the resignation of Dr Lonnie Gatlin. Gatlin resigned for ‘health reasons’ which was a polite way of saying the actual reason which everyone [...]

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Pennsylvania State Police released the name of the man shot and killed on Saturday in the parking lot of Lazer Tag at Splash Lagoon. The man was indetified as Jesus Mancilla aka Edward Pina, an illegal immigrant living in Ashtabula, Ohio. The usupect in the shooting is 17 year old Donnie Swift of Highland, Michigan. [...]

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A couple of kids, 13 and 14, attempted a hold up with a gun last night at the Wendy’s on Buffalo Road. State police troopers quickly caught them as their cars went faster than the kids making their getaway peddling their bicycles. The Bayfront Center for Maritime Studies in Erie will be given a wind [...]

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NanoLogix (OTC Pink Sheets: NNLX), a nanobiotechnology company engaged in the development and commercialization of technologies for the creation of hydrogen utilizing hydrogen bioreactors, announced that it has signed an agreement for the construction and operation of a prototype hydrogen bioreactor at the City of Erie wastewater treatment plant. This project will utilize the proprietary [...]

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Congrats to Jenny and Mike on the birth of their son Grady Matthew. Grady was 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Both mother and son are healthy and doing great. Me: When is the Erie Management Group going to start the move to the former Hammermill/ IP plant and have their groundbreaking? Boss man: They have already [...]

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The Tom Ridge Environmental Center (TREC) opens on Friday. This is a MUST SEE. Admission is free. They held a sneak preview for the media on Thursday. Yes, kids bloggers are part of the media as I was invited to attend thanks to Emily McCullor and Lisa Anderson-Titcombe of the Presque Isle Partnership. The building [...]

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The Greater Erie Industrial Development Corporation was awarded $450,000 to restore rail service to the 120-acre industrial park that once was home to Hammermill and IP, initially servicing two businesses of the Erie Management Group, a multi-million-dollar bio-diesel manufacturing company and a paint/ solvent production facility. Groundbreaking on those two businesses will be held in [...]

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Erie City Council has given Invest Erie until July 1 to get financing for the grocery store project at 19th and Parade Streets. Attorney Billl Sessler wants to take over the project from the group that hasn’t done anything in the past four years. Erie Indemnity Company (Erie Insurance) announced results for the first quarter. [...]

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Erie City Council is again jeopardizing the financial future of the City of Erie. A tax meant to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars will now generate nothing for the general fund and only grow the bloated employment level of the city. To generate revenue for the city which is millions of dollars away from [...]

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This could be the first tax I have ever agreed with. State Representative John Pallone (D-New Kensington) introduced House Bill 2454 which will levy a $100 fee on every resident in communities with 9,000 or more people that require state police because they are too cheap to have their own police force. My state taxes [...]

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Erie City Council holds another budget meeting today. They have until the end of the year to approve a budget and so far they have done zero work on it. They get their faces on TV and do interviews but as for their jobs….nothing. They talk and listen to department heads. They lack leadership and [...]

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The Erie Management Group is in talks with Erie Sand and Gravel, and the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority about leasing the Mountfort Terminal for a shipping container business. Erie Sand and Gravel currently leases the entire facility from the port authority. EMG is also looking to purchase a ship and a large crain. The terminal [...]

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