Three concerts to send out the summer.

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Some great outdoor concerts to finish off the summer.

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Come out and enjoy the sounds of the Gem City Concert Band.

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The Erie Community Foundation has been checking out our vital signs.

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Get out of town for only a buck, starting today.

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Some local science teachers will get schooled on energy efficiency.

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Game in heavenly peace.

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The Gem City Concert Band will offer a free concert Sunday, November 7th at the Blasco Library’s H.O. Hirt Auditorium.

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Ruben Swift, 35, pleaded no contest on charges of raping a child. He will be sentenced in January. Swift ran for mayor of the city of Erie in ’05. Dan Onorato (D), Allegheny County Executive, is scheduled to appear in Erie. He announced his candidacy for governor yesterday in Pittsburgh and is touring the state. [...]

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The Gem City Concert Band will hold their annual Spring Concert tomorrow. It should be a great performance with a wide range of musical selections to please everyone’s tastes. The concert program is now online for your review. It looks like a great and varied program. The performance is from 7:30 to 9:00 pm at [...]

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Even as President-Elect Barack Obama begins to pick his cabinet and other key positions, two states remain uncalled from Tuesday’s election. At the time we write this, North Carolina and Missouri are neither red nor blue. In North Carolina, Obama leads 50% to 49%, and its flipped in Missouri. Bit of a police blotter today. [...]

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If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day. Events for this Week Tour the Chautauqua-Lake Erie Wine Trail November 1-2 and 8-9. The Holiday Wine Weekend [...]

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Happy Canada Day to our friends across the lake. Referred to as “Canada’s birthday,” Canada Day marks when our northern neighbor became a kingdom in its own right on July 1, 1867. Also, this day in 1980 is when “O Canada” officially became the national anthem of Canada. Yesterday, within hours after posting the state [...]

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The City of Erie had a budget deficit of $1.3 million in 2006. That’s according to the draft of the audit done by the regional CPA firm of McGill, Power, Bell and Associates. One of the requirements to have Erie declared a distressed city under Act 47, the Distressed Municipalities Financial Recovery Act, is five [...]

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  According to The Tax Foundation in their 2006 report on Property Taxes on Owner Occupied Housing by County, Erie County Pennsylvania has the 55th highest property taxes in the nation out of 783 counties (or parishes). That will change next year as the following four member of Erie County Council voted to raise your [...]

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The 5th floor of Erie City Hall should love hearing this one. An elected member of Erie City Council emailed me and pointed out with the low voter turnout in last Tuesday’s election, the number of signatures needed to hold a hearing to determine if Erie should be declared a distressed city under Act 47, [...]

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Someone call Meadow Brook Dairy and have justice placed on the side of milk cartons. The preliminary hearing for Teri Rhodes was scheduled for Nov 7 in front of District Judge Joseph LeFaiver at the Erie County Courthouse. Why didn’t it take place? Teri Rhodes gave birth on August 12. The baby only survived 10 [...]

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Today is Veteran’s Day. The fighting in World War I ended in 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Thank a Vet for the freedoms you enjoy. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns game today at 1 pm will not be televised locally. Unless you have the NFL Sunday [...]

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  Philadelphia Governor Rendell joined hundreds of area officials and residents to formally dedicate the Erie Bayfront Convention Center. “I’m pleased the commonwealth was able to help make this project a reality,” Governor Rendell. “As one of the largest development projects in Erie’s history, this complex serves as a terrific example of what can be [...]

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  Port Erie Boat Works has been sold as their web site says to “an elite group of boat builders and investors.” The company manufactures catamarans and is located at 2567 W 20th St. The company had been one of the fastest growing companies around. I hope they stay in Erie and keep adding to [...]

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  American Campus Communities Inc has been tapped to develop a two phase student housing project at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. The 1,504 bed development will add to the on-campus housing at the Pennsylvania State System school with a total enrollment of about 7,000 students. The Edinboro University Foundation selected American Campus (NYSE: ACC) to [...]

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The state is returning $1.5 million in tax money to Erie County. Here is the complete press release. The highlights – GE Transportation Systems in Erie received $500,000 to implement lean manufacturing techniques at its rail plants in Erie and Grove City, Mercer County, a project that is expected to cost $12.8 million. GE has [...]

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The curfew in the City of Erie for children under 18 went into effect last night. Kids will have to be home 10 pm to 6 am Sunday through Thursday and midnight to 6 am Friday and Saturday. During school breaks kids will have to be home midnight to 6 am. Exceptions are made for [...]

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  Timothy Flanagan was going to take a job as a probation officer in Erie PA when his faculty advisor, Gannon Univeristy anthropology professor Jude Kirkpatrick, told him to go to grad school. After graduating from Gannon he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in criminal justice at the State University of New York at [...]

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On Friday I spoke with Mike Foreman of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development Center for Local Government Services in Pittsburgh about starting a citizen based petition drive to have a public hearing to see if the City of Erie should be declared a Distressed City under Act 47. I’ll have to gather [...]

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  John Deasy went to Mercyhurst College in Erie PA on a golf scholarship and graduated with a BA in History and Communications. An Irish Fine Gael politician and a member of Parliament from Waterford, Deasy could be a candidate to become leader of his party. Deasy said that party leader Enda Kenny should resign [...]

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While Erie City Council was raising taxes including a change to the 3 percent amusement tax to cover all ballgames, concerts and other events that cost less than $5 in Erie, the Pittsburgh City Council cut it’s 5 percent amusement tax to 1.25 percent. Pittsburgh found that a high amusement tax caused concert tours and [...]

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Erie County Judge John Bozza has ruled in favor of Invest Erie Community Development Corporation against the city. The city wanted to allow a private developer take over the grocery store project at 19th and Parade Streets. It appears the incompetence by Invest Erie has been matched by city officials who wrote up the contract [...]

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  Dave Eggers’s latest book “What Is the What” in Number 25 on the New York Times’ extended best seller list this week. Today it’s number 174 on Amazon.com. It’s the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese “Lost Boy” who is attending Allegheny College. It’s not a conventional biography though, it’s a fictionalization of [...]

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    Unlike scandals at Enron and Tyco, where fraud disguised huge losses, Rent-Way’s deceptions exaggerated growth.  There is a great, Pulitzer Prize Explanatory Reporting great, story in today’s New York Times by Charles Duhigg on the downfall of Erie based Rentway. Renway was a growth company. When growth slowed, three company officials cooked the [...]

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