This week’s blog post of the week comes to us from Your Boro: Edinboro News blog, which is a newcomer to ErieBlogs and deals mainly with news and events in the Edinboro area. On Tuesday, Your Boro wrote about General McLane refusing to play games at Erie City Schools following the shooting at East High [...]

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  General McLane won the Pennsylvania Class AAA basketball championship defeating Greencastle-Antrim 57-55. General McLane also won the state Class AAA football title. That’s the first time in Pennsylvania a school has won both titles in the same school year.   On Friday, forty-four people took the oath and became US citizens in a ceremony [...]

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Three fires claimed three lives in less than 24 hours. Richard Hunt of Corry died in his East Main Street home in a fire that broke out around 1 pm. A fire at 457 West Front St broke out around 2:45 and claimed the life of a women. I’m selling the home next door at [...]

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General McLane beat Pottsville 28-23 to win the Pennsylvania Class AAA football championship. Tough as nails Drew Astorino had 172 yards rushing including a long touchdown run after he twisted his ankle. Astorino has given a verbal commitment to Kent State but a couple of people have said Duke has offered him a 4 year, [...]

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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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  Over 900,000 Pennsylvania hunters will head into the woods today for the first day of rifle season for deer. The season officially opens 30 minutes before sunrise. In 2005, 45 percent of antlered bucks were taken on the first day. Schools and many businesses are closed. This year’s season ends December 9.   Cody [...]

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MTR Gaming Group received a takeover offer from two of the company’s executives, in a deal that valued at about $258.4 million. The company’s shares soared $1.84 or 23 percent to close at $9.73 on Friday. MTR Chief Executive Ted Arneault and Executive Vice President Robert Blatt propose paying $9.50 per share in cash for [...]

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Someone jammed the Coinstar machine at the West 26th Street Tops Market with a number of old coins. The Coinstar can take a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar and a Sacagawea dollar coin. It’s not designed to take a 1890′s Morgan Silver Dollar worth about $500. Outside the grocery store police recoved a backpack [...]

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