2011 Niagara Winter Sail Training Syllabus and Schedule So the schedule and syllabus for this winter’s sail training is ready to go.  This is a great opportunity for everyone that stares at pictures of Niagara all over town thinking how much fun it would be to sail and work on that ship.  Our goal is to [...]

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2011 Sailing Schedule Version 3-24-11 We have a schedule that we can publish for everyone!!!  The day sails are pretty much locked in so you can sign up for those whenever you would like.  The only changes that may be made would be in the ports we are going to this summer and I will make sure that [...]

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Anyone attend the Parade of Sail?

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Block parties… your opinions?

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Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming soon. Black eyeliner optional.

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The Flagship Niagara League is hosting Sign On – Tall Ships Erie!, an outreach event to inform leaders and key individuals in Erie’s diverse community about Tall Ships Erie and its volunteer opportunities on Thurs., Aug. 5, 2010, at 5:30 p.m. in the Erie Maritime Museum’s Orientation Theater.

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Are we going to be able to help keep an old roller coaster flying along the tracks?

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There’s plenty to do this weekend, so I don’t want to hear you whining that you’re bored.

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Can they make iPads out of the tires they burn in Crawford County?

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Whole lotta stunnin’ going on.

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The Flagship Niagara will return to Erie Wednesday, August 26th at approximately 3:00 p.m. after a ten day voyage to Put-in-Bay, Ohio. The Niagara voyaged to Put-in-Bay to take part in the Oliver Hazard Perry birthday celebration at the Perry’s Victory National Park. Two days after the Niagara’s return to Erie, the Flagship Niagara League [...]

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Allow me to introduce myself… My name’s Lory Varo. I’ve been reading ErieBlogs almost since its inception, so when Mike put out a call for help, I quickly responded. I’ll be posting on ErieBlogs every Thursday and my column, which I’ve titled I’m Bored, will highlight all there is to do in Erie and the [...]

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In an effort to make this year’s Independence Day celebrations greater than ever, the Flagship Niagara League has offered to assist the City of Erie in the production of the “Boom Over The Bay” fireworks show in Erie Harbor, July 4, 2009. “The Boom Over the Bay” fireworks show is from 9:45pm until 10:00pm and [...]

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The state budget woes are affecting everyone, including the PA Historical and Museum Commission. They are considering closing 6 historic sites and/or museums, including the Flagship Niagara here in Erie. The ship would stop sailing, but remain as a museum. The commission will hold public meetings at each affected area. We’ll let you know when. [...]

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The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority will hold a public meeting 5-7pm today at the HO Hirt Auditorium at the Erie County Blasco Memorial Library, 160 East Front St, to discuss the proposal to ban unaccompanied minors from the 8 Great Tuesday’s concert series. Maybe at the meeting someone will ask what happened to the $700,000 [...]

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Jack Young of Warren PA might soon be getting a check for over $400,000 – the reward money for the capture of Ralph “Bucky” Phillips. He’s the story Dan Wells of WJET-TV reported yesterday. Young and his wife were of the balcony of the apartment around midnight Thursday night/ Friday morning when they noticed someone [...]

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WJET-TV reported that Nick Scott will drop two lawsuits and pay Erie`s Convention Center Authority $1 million in exchange for managing the Erie Bayfront Sheraton Hotel and gaining naming rights for the Erie Bayfront Convention Center. My advise – don’t do it. The Erie Convention Center Authority has spent close to a million dollars defending [...]

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