We hope you had a nice weekend. The weather was decent – hopefully you got in those last few outside projects and relaxed.
Thank you to the Ridge Law Firm and the Community Blood Bank for sponsoring this website last month. We’ve got open slots now, and your support not only helps this web site continue [...]

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The Ravine Flyer II at Waldameer Amusement Park and Water World opened yesterday to a large crowd. Seats on the very first ride were auctioned off with all proceeds benefiting the Northwestern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. About $7,500 was raised. And all weeekend long, $3.50 of the $4.50 ride cost will [...]

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Looks like there won’t be any baby Bald Eagles at Presque Isle State Park. Linda posted pictures of the nest and a write-up on her blog. She said a park volunteer told her there was an attack on the nest by a rogue eagle (or another predator).
International Paper closed it’s plant in Erie on the [...]

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A jubilant celebration will take place on Monday, May 19 beginning at 10:30 am at the corner of Manchester and West Lake Road, where only a pile of dirt presently exists. The celebration will mark the official ground breaking of the newest branch of the Erie County Public Library, the West County Library Branch (WCLB). [...]

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Family First Sports Park is now home to a co-ed boarding school called Family First Academy.
Family First Academy has grades 8-12. Students attend classes at Erie First Christian Academy. The total enrollment is 245 students. The cost for boarding students is $26,000 at year while day students pay $3,300.
GE (NYSE: GE) reported earnings. Fourth quarter [...]

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Out of 360 metropolitan areas that the US Census Bureau tracks, only 62 metropolitan areas increased housing construction in 2007. Erie PA was 20th highest in the nation ranked by the percentage change in the January through October total units permitted, with an increase of 40.1 percent. The increase in Erie is attributed to developers [...]

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The Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership published the Interim Report on Activity, Findings, and Recommendations prepared by the Mayoral Advisory Group. A group of 40 business and community leaders volunteered their busy lives to give advise to the city to improve finances and avoid Act 47, distressed city status. The ink wasn’t even dry [...]

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The Best Places to Work in PA winners were announced and 3 Erie companies made the 2007 list for large size companies. Saint Vincent Health System was 5th, Stairways Behavioral Health was 16th and Hamot Medical Center was 48th. No area companies made the list in the medium size category. Registration for the 2008 nominations [...]

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Questions are now being raised as to why Malcolm Kysor, who escaped from prison on Sunday and is still on the loose, was transferred from maximum security prisons to the State Correctional Institution at Albion, a medium security prison. Kysor was sentenced to life without parole for a 1981 murder in Erie County.
Wonder if they’re [...]

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Terry Sherlock was arrested on a murder charge in the shooting death of Kenneth Himrod. Himrod was under investigation for allegedly molesting Sherlock’s son. Before the shooting, Sherlock told both the Corry City Police and the state police in Corry that if they didn’t do something, he would. He did everything but rent a billboard [...]

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There was a huge crowd at Celebrate Erie 2006 on Friday. There was an estimated 40-50,000 thousand people with 20-25,000 on hand to watch the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys turned out to be a very good choice with pre-teens to people old enough to be their great grandparents enjoying their show which lasted over [...]

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The local TV stations including WSEE ran this story about the large increase in visitor spending in the Erie area. The state tourism office has a study that says visitor spending went up 41 percent from 2001 to 2004 to $654 million, up $191 million from 2001. Presque Isle State Park and the bayfront are [...]

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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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In the late 1990’s, Norfolk Southern removed their circa 1882 line through the center of Erie known at the 19th Street tracks. The land was given to the City of Erie. It wasn’t very valuable, NS would have had to pay taxes on the property and they received a nice tax break for doing so.
In [...]

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Three year old Abby Murray of Niagara Falls, Ontario was born without a lower right arm and hand. Abby has gone to Green Prosthetics in Erie, Pa for her prosthetic arm since she was a baby. The last time she went for a new prosthetic, she asked for a arm so she could go fishing. [...]

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You can’t pick your family. The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat reported this unusual story today. Chuck Cummings was murdered on Dec 23 in Portage PA. Three days later his wife and step son were charged with the murder. Merry Christmas. Daughter Shannon Sweeney took over duties as head of household for the three small kids aged 5 [...]

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Nick Scott is quoted in todays Cleveland Plain Dealer saying that plans are in the works for another expansion of Splash Lagoon Indoor Water Park in Erie. Why? To keep the large crowds coming back they want to keep the place fresh. Just last year two new slides, another hot tub, another restaurant and more [...]

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The contract for steel for construction at the Erie Bayfront Convention Center came in $900,000 over budget. The amount of steel needed is 122 tons more than expected. That’s about the weight of a small planet. With the Universal Law of Gravity in effect on this planet, steel and not thin air is needed to [...]

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Yesterday Erie took one step closer to the state taking over the city under Act 47. Pennsylvania Act 47 is the law that allows the state to take over cities that qualify for ‘distressed city status.’ The city was turned down in an attempt to refinance bonds. No insurance company would bond the cash strapped [...]

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The main water cooler topic yesterday in Erie was Mayor Joe Sinnott going over to the studios of radio station Rocket 101 and breaking their boards. OK, it was wooden boards and not equipment. Sinnott showed off his martial arts skills to publicize the 30th Anniversary of the King Cobra Open which will be held [...]

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Erie City Council held another budget meeting yesterday. Watching this clown show for 10 minutes can convince anyone that they haven’t done their homework. No members have done any research on what other cities have done. On Tuesday, council listened for over 2 hours while members of the sports and art community convinced them to [...]

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For the Marine attorneys of the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, 2nd Force Service Support Group (Forward), their office is the inside of a tattered, Iraqi structure lined with sandbags and surrounded by barbed wire. The Marine attorneys of Camp Taqaddum are there to provide legal assistance to the command as well as to [...]

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