If you didn’t register to vote by 8 p.m. yesterday, you’ll have to wait four years to vote for president again. Tom Ridge and Lynn Swann will hold a rally Wednesday in Perry Square in support of the McCain-Palin ticket. In Pennsylvania, here are the polling numbers: Quinnipiac poll has Obama up in PA by [...]

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Mike Crotty was killed in the line of duty while fighting a fire at Port Erie Plastics. Crotty was serving with the Lawrence Park Township Volunteer Fire Department where he was Deputy Chief. Crotty served as a volunteer with the department for six years. Crotty was also a paid firefighter with the Erie Fire Department. [...]

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The Erie Housing Authority held a public meeting yesterday on the proposed spending of $1,045,000 to install central air conditioning in over 1,300 public housing units. The authority will vote on their $3.7 million 2008 spending plan at their December 26 meeting. You can view their entire draft plan here. Their excuse for spending $1,045,000 [...]

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  The Federal Aviation Administration today will meet with local government officials to discuss the Erie International Airport Runway Extension Project. U S Rep Phil English secured the meeting at the request of local officials. The FAA meeting will take place at 9 am in the Conference Room on the 2nd floor of the Erie [...]

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Malcolm Kysor of Erie escaped from the State Correctional Institution at Albion. Kysor was serving a life sentence for murder. The morons at the prison found him missing at 4:30. Along with searching for an escaped murderer prison officials should also be searching for other jobs. The first mention that I saw was a news [...]

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Paragon Promotions of Erie is suspected running a fundraising scam. Greenville-West Salem (PA) Township police are investigating the company for running a bogus fundraising campaign for the Greenville Fire Department and its union. Numerous phone calls were made to Greenville area residents asking for donations so the fire department could purchase fire safety books for [...]

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The Greater Erie Board of Realtors reported the Erie County real estate sales for October 2007. Sales were in line with the previous year. The data includes all sales in which a property transfer tax was paid including residential, investment and commercial properties as well as land. In October 2007, there were 437 sales for [...]

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Erie City Council held their biweekly meeting last evening. They might have well just stayed home because they got nothing accomplished. They are expected to make decisions. They can’t grasp the concept. Organized activity to accomplish an objective: Action. Learn it. Live it. They afraid about making decisions? Cripe, they re-elected anyway. Item 1: The [...]

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Traffic note: Peninsula Dr is now closed between 12th and 26th due to a fire at 18th and Hilborn Ave. Peninsula Dr is not expected to reopen before this afternoon. Heavy, wet snow shut down I-90, I-79, I-86 and parts of Route 20. Trees and limbs fell. Penelec crews had around 250 power outages to [...]

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Members of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, volunteer searchers, rescue teams and others in the hikers responded to two lost hikers in the trails of Mount Lafayette in Franconia, NH. Four members of the Schwegman family of Erie, Pa, were hiking the trails on Saturday afternoon. Mother and daughter returned but the guys, [...]

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  Presque Isle State Park is closed today – on a day where temperatures are expected to approach 90 degrees. And forget about visiting the Erie Maritime Museum and US Brig Niagara. Governor Ed Rendell furloughed around 24,000 “non-essential” state employees at 12:01 am when he failed to get a budget passed. The casinos around [...]

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  Swamp Zombies is being released on Tuesday May 8. The DVD will be available at KillerWolfFilms.com, FYE Music and Movies, Suncoast, Best Buy , Circuit City and other video outlets. Swamp Zombies features Shannon Solo, WWE superstar Blue Meanie, XXX legend Jasmin St Claire, UFC hall of famer Dan “the beast” Severn and sexy [...]

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  The Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy USAD team leaves today for the National Academic Decathlon in Honolulu, Hawaii. Students will take Mathematics, Social Science, Language and Literature, and Art tests as well as competing in Speech and Interview. The competition concludes on Friday, April 27, with Economics, Music, and Science tests as well as the [...]

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  Great news for Erie PA and the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority. Erie Management Group is now in the Great Lakes shipping business. EMG now is the majority shareholder of Great Lakes Feeder Lines. The mission of Great Lakes Feeder Lines is to provide a competitive, reliable and environmentally responsible alternative to the existing surface [...]

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  The Greater Erie Board of REALTORS released the Erie County property transfer report for October. For Oct 2006, 432 properties were exchanged for $47,279, 377. The Oct 2005 figures were 512 transactions for $61,760,628. This marks the fifth straight decline year-over-year. Year to date, the 2006 totals are down $29,904,788 and 280 transactions compared to [...]

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