The Erie Playhouse, in cooperation with the Erie Port Authority, will conduct tours of the historic Erie Land Lighthouse, located at the foot of Lighthouse St. in James N. Thompson Lighthouse Park, August 27, 28, Sept. 3, 4, 5.

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Again with the Pirates. A different kind, but still. Pirates!

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This is probably what she looked like back in 1957 when she appeared at the Erie Playhouse.

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New babies at Erie Zoo!!

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Beware of the Ice Dunes

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Our ship has come in!!

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Daffodil Days!

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Murder, snow, basketball, table games, building collapse, donating blood, gas prices, cell phone ban, fund raising, Otter hockey…

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Still shopping for gifts? We have ideas.

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Gannon swimmer carried the torch!

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Dreaming of a White Christmas?

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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 Erie County United Way kicked off its 2009 fundraising campaign today.  The agency hopes to match last year’s contributions of 5.7 Million dollars, but the sagging economy may constitute a problem.  The fund drive runs through November.  33 agencies and 100,000 people were served last year. On Tuesday, employees with the Mental Health [...]

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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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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. This Week’s Events Willy Wonka will be at the Erie Playhouse January 16-18. This play [...]

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Mother Nature cooperated this year and there is plenty of fresh powder at Peek N Peak and it’s just in time for the annual lift ticket giveaway! The Community Blood Bank wants donors and is enticing them with lift tickets on Tuesday. Peek ‘N Peak Ski Resort has generously donated over $10,000 worth of ski [...]

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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. This Week’s Events The Erie Playhouse presents The Music of Stephen Schwartz at 7:30 p.m. [...]

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And we have snow… and lot’s of it.  Be careful and plan ahead before you travel. Police are still trying to identify the remains of a man beleived to be behind this past Tuesday’s shooting near Brown Ave and 25th Street. Although police are confident the body is that of 42-year-old Robert Daniels, a DNA [...]

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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. This Week’s Events Willy Wonka will be at the Erie Playhouse January 9-11 and 16-18. [...]

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Man, was Saturday a beautiful day or what? Personally, we needed a bit of time away from the family and all the holiday stuff and took a long walk. Presque Isle was crowded and some people even got in a few holes of golf. For a second there, we almost thought it was April. We [...]

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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. This Week’s Events Gannon University will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of one [...]

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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. This Week The Erie Philharmonic, under the baton of conductor Daniel Meyer, will perform a [...]

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Live thoroughbred racing returns to the Erie, PA, today Friday, May 9, when Presque Isle Downs and Casino commences its 2008 meeting. Presque Isle’s 100-day season will extend through September 27, with a daily post time of 5:30 pm. Admission and general parking throughout the meet will be FREE. Last year, Presque Isle’s inaugural meet [...]

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The Huntington Bank at Peach and Kuntz Rd was robbed yesterday of $3,000. The robber got away on a bicycle and went into the Grenada Apartment complex. Maybe he’ll use the money to buy a car. US Air Force Second Lieutenant Matthew E Emmons, a native of Corry PA, died recently in a training accident [...]

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The former Hotel Evergreen in Edinboro last night burned down to the ground. The hotel had been vacant, but the 4 story wooden structure still housed a bar and pizza shop. It was better known for hosting bands than a hotel. Steve Marshall took a few pictures and passed them along to WUSA-TV: pic 1, [...]

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The flap caused by Peter Marsh in a Financial Times article calling Erie “unfashionable” was picked up by the Albany Times-Union, with Don’t disparage Erie and Unfashionable unpardonable. They must have picked up on Peter Panepento’s Erie’s Best Spokespeople. Before this I think the only people that had ever heard of Peter Marsh were his [...]

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The Greater Erie Board of Realtors released the January 2008 property transfer figures for Erie County PA. The reports shows that 243 properties were sold for $41,202,807. This compares to January 2007 when 280 properties sold for $44,849,368 and January 2006 when 254 changed hands for $26,951,813. The figures include residential, commercial, investment properties as [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio got away with it. GoErie.com reported that DiVecchio paid $285 in reimbursements for snowplowing and parking fines. DuhVecchio still doesn’t comprehend that what he did was wrong. The article by Kevin Flowers quoted him as saying “I just want this over with.” If you get caught, all you have to [...]

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Governor Rendell was in Erie yesterday to his economic stimulus plan, unveiled as part of his 2008-09 budget proposal. What Fast Eddie didn’t say was that Pennsylvania taxpayers and businesses will continue to be overly burdened with taxes much higher than the national average. The Pennsylvania budget includes an increase in the Capital Stock and [...]

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