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Karma. Former state representative Linda Bebko-Jones and her then chief of staff, Mary Fiolek, were formally charged with forging nominating petitions and submitting the fraudulent forms to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Bebko-Jones and Fiolek are scheduled to surrender next week and appear before Harrisburg Magisterial District Judge Joseph Solomon for preliminary arraignment. According to [...]

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GECAC, the Greater Erie Community Action Committee, is closing down their Drug and Alcohol Services division resulting in the layoffs of 23 people. In days past, GECAC was given money based on the number of people enrolled in their programs. The state, trying to hold agencies more accountable for the huge checks they receive, changed [...]

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I received more info on the City of Erie health care insurance. The city budgeted $16,500 per employee and councilperson for 2007. In response to the questions you posed related to my e-mail, I have some additional information for you. First of all, the City of Erie is “self insured.” They pay the actual costs [...]

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The “Beach Boys” will be the headlining act at Celebrate Erie on Friday August 18. The free concert takes place at 8:30 pm on the stage at 4th and State streets. Of course you already knew that if you’re a regular reader of this blog. I announced the band on Sunday thanks to a tip [...]

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Orson Welles cause near paic with a radio broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ in 1938 when people thought it was a real alien invasion. The Northwestern Pennsylvania Emergency Response Group 2 terorism drill yesterday in Franklin was halted when a citizen called 911 in Erie to report a bombing. It resumed later when it [...]

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The Erie Management Group is in talks with Erie Sand and Gravel, and the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority about leasing the Mountfort Terminal for a shipping container business. Erie Sand and Gravel currently leases the entire facility from the port authority. EMG is also looking to purchase a ship and a large crain. The terminal [...]

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