A little taste of NYC right here in Erie.

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TGIF

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Remember lawn darts? I wasn’t allowed to run with scissors, but I could throw stubby little spears around the yard all day long.

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Erie is under a lake effect snow watch until Friday at noon. In other words be prepared for anything the next few days. Congrats to this year’s GenerationE winners.  The award recognizes young professionals who are paving the way for the future of Erie and is presented by the Young Erie Professionals (yep!).This year’s winners [...]

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Breaking news this morning. There is an active manhunt going on in the area between West 21st to 26th streets and from Greengarden to Brown Avenues (area north of Topps Grocery market). There were gunshots reported this morning and a home set on fire in that area. People living in the area are asked to [...]

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  Erie Blogger Scott McCausland has been ordered by the United States Government to switch to Windows from Ubuntu, a free Debian derived Linux-based operating system. Scott is on probation and the monitoring system will only run on Windows. This comes awful close to cruel and unusual punishment. His related entry. There have been a [...]

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  Radnor Property Group and Fourth River Development were picked as the development team for the first phase of the downtown Erie redevelopment plan. The area is between Holland and Sassafras Streets, 12th to 14th Streets. Radnor and Fourth River announced (press release) they were looking for a project to do together back in December [...]

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  The city is taking away a $300,000 state for the proposed grocery store at 19th and Parade Streets. The grant must be used by June. The city wants to use the money to demolish the Warren Radio building at 14th and French Streets. The Erie Redevelopment Authority wants to have townhouse built at that [...]

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  Erie Insurance (Nasdaq: ERIE) announced financial results for the third quarter 2006. Net income was $52.8 million for the third quarter of 2006 compared to $53.0 million at September 30, 2005. Net income per share increased 7.9 percent to $0.82 per share, compared to $0.76 per share in the comparable quarter of 2005. Net [...]

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Dr Paul Heberle was acquited of Medicaid fraud and charges that he over supplied pain medication to patients. Miles Rish plead quilty to reduced charges that he sexually assaulted a female Gannon student. Rish was a Gannon freshamn at the time. Funny real estate story. I was checking out some properties for a client that [...]

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Matthew Perez-Jefferson entered a plea of guilty to third degree murder in the Noverber shooting of Paul Martinson outside the Antigua Blue Tavern. The sentencing is scheduled for May. He faces 5-40 years. The Erie Redevelopment Authority held a groundbreaking yesterday on a $5 million housing project in the “Hood”, the area of East 21st [...]

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