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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  Port Dover is out for the destination for ferry service across Lake Erie from Erie to Ontario, Canada. Norfolk County Mayor Dennis Travale said Port Dover Recreational Harbour Marina is now out. I’m not sure if anyone in Erie knows this. The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority commissioned a 65 foot boat which will be [...]

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The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority ferry from Erie to Port Dover, Ontario will begin as trial runs in 2007. The details were published in the Port Dover Maple Leaf. Great job by Emma finding the news and correctly pointing out nothing has published locally. The port authority has somehow found the money to have a [...]

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Voter turnout in Erie County was 23.58 percent. There were no suprises, no upsets and even the represenatives that voted themselves a late night pay raise won. In the 1st Legislative District Pat Harkins won the Democratic nomination and Christine Pontoriero won the Republican side over a write-in campaign over Randy Brewer. The the 3rd [...]

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America’s Most Wanted will air new info on the Brian Wells pizza bomber case this Saturday, November 5 at 9 pm. On August 28, 2003, Brian Wells, a 46-year-old pizza deliveryman from Erie PA, perished as a bomb that was strapped around his neck exploded. Authorities have been puzzled by the bizarre details of that [...]

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Yesterday WICU did a story they called Mystery Tombstone. A couple of kids playing found a tombstone. The names Stella and Genevie Mandarin and 1929 were inscribed on the stone. Instead of over-sensationalizing the story they could have spent two minutes finding the answer. They could have called the library or easier yet just fricking [...]

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