Mmmm…kielbasa

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Watch Erie in the national spotlight

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Winter weather, national media and home makeovers. Just a typical weekend in Erie.

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Have you seen a red balloon?

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There is a blood shortage affecting our region and officials at the Community Blood Bank are hoping some ‘Extreme’ measures will help get the blood supply back to safe levels before the July 4th holiday weekend. The Community Blood Bank will be holding a blood drive in conjunction with Extreme Make Over Home Edition’s visit [...]

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Stunned. What a week for celebrity deaths. Was Saturday pretty much the most beautiful day ever? I took the family on the sightseeing boat at Presque Isle for a great trip through the bay and into Lake Erie. If you’ve never took that trip, you should, it was fun. I took this picture from the [...]

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Spectators are allowed to come to the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” site starting Sunday, June 28. The spectator parking has changed locations. Spectators can now park at Bayfront and State Streets by the Erie Maritime Museum. An EMTA shuttle will be available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to take spectators to the site to [...]

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Peace out, MJ. Peace out, Jill Munroe The Ward family of E. 21st Street is the family chosen for the Extreme Makeover Home Edition project that is now underway. Clara Ward runs a program for young people from her home that is need of repairs. The team building the house includes Ty Pennington, Paul DiMeo, [...]

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The NBA Development League Erie BayHawks are proud to lend a helping hand to Maleno Real Estate Development, the Erie-based builders who are working with ABC Television’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition to aide an Erie family. “We are excited that the BayHawks, along with the NBA Development League and our partners at Spalding, will be [...]

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I saw Transformers 2 last night. The better subtitle for it should have been “Robots and Explosions for Two Straight Hours.” Needless to say, I loved it. Today is the start of the Extreme Makeover Home Edition project. In case you missed it yesterday, we had a post talking about a side project going on [...]

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As you know, tomorrow marks the start of the Extreme Makeover Home Edition taking place here in Erie. In addition to the family being helped, there are also efforts under way to help improve the neighborhood as well as the families around the build site. I asked Danielle Hartland, communications director at Grace Church, who [...]

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I’m heading from Northampton, MA to Erie today. After spending a few days here, I think Erie officials should all pile in Joe Sinnott’s car and head here to see how downtown development is done. A colleague and I parked in a garage for 2 hours today near a row of restaurants and shops and [...]

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