Health care, biofuels, hockey and more. Happy Monday!

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From reading the local blogs yesterday, it seems a lot of people had trouble getting their cars going in the sub-zero temperatures. Ron struggled, and Michael managed to get his car going but he locked himself out of his running car. We broke the story yesterday that Lord Corporation has laid off 46 employees. The [...]

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And we have snow… and lot’s of it.  Be careful and plan ahead before you travel. Police are still trying to identify the remains of a man beleived to be behind this past Tuesday’s shooting near Brown Ave and 25th Street. Although police are confident the body is that of 42-year-old Robert Daniels, a DNA [...]

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Teri Rhodes will appear before court today for sentencing. Rhodes pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter this past August for the murder of her own child whom she gave birth in her Mercyhurst apartment and immediately suffocated to death. Rhodes was a sophmore attending Mercyhurst when she gave birth to the full-term baby girl on August [...]

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In case you missed the big news yesterday, a jury found former Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce guilty on all the counts for bilking insurance companies $440,000 from a 2001 car accident.  Joyce will be sentenced next March on two counts of mail fraud and six counts of money laundering. VisitErie, together with member [...]

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Today is Veterans Day. From the President of the United States: On Veterans Day, we remember those who have served in previous wars, those who are serving today, and those who did not live to become veterans. Our Nation is blessed by these brave defenders, and we owe a debt of gratitude to all those [...]

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It doesn’t matter if you want to vote for Obama or McCain, English or Dahlkemper or even if you want to write yourself in – the important thing is that you vote. If you haven’t registered to vote yet, today is the last day to register for this November’s election. The voter registration office will [...]

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The Erie Block Party, held most Thursday evenings during the summer, will be held tonight at Matthew’s Trattoria & Martini Lounge with performers Duke Sherman Band & Sam Hyman. Theme for the night is a “Hollywood Picnic,” and the event benefits the charity Emmaus Soup Kitchen. If you remember from a couple of weeks ago, [...]

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Today is the first day of Erie Blogs Week II at the Community Blood Bank. One person who signs in on the special Erie Blogs Week list will be picked to win an iPhone 3G, pretty much the best mobile device out there. The Community Blood Bank is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. [...]

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The Erie Times-News / GoErie.com reported that Teri Rhodes will enter a guilty plea on Friday. Everyone involved is being tight lipped about the deal. The plea deal takes the death penalty off the table. If the deal does not include a VERY long prison sentence, I think there will be community outrage. Rhodes murdered [...]

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The official ground breaking of the newest branch of the Erie County Public Library, the West County Library Branch (WCLB), will be held today at 10:30 at the corner of Manchester and West Lake Road in Fairview. To add to the jubilation, Michael Batchelor, president of The Erie Community Foundation, will make a major announcement [...]

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A traffic accident Sunday night on West Townhill Road, between Peach St and Perry Highway, claimed the life of one person when the car burst into flames. The single vehicle accident happened around midnight. The victim was burned so badly authorities couldn’t determine the gender let alone the identity of the victim. The horrible accident [...]

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There is an excellent must-read story in the Charleston (WV) Gazette on the story of Bob Wiesen who grew up in the St Joseph’s Home for Children in Erie. St Joseph’s was the orphanage in Erie. Wiesen lived at the orphanage from the time he was an infant until he finished high school. The story [...]

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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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Darren Amy and Joseph Dille, both 19 year old Saegertown volunteer firefighters, were arrested and charged with arson for setting 9 fires in the Saegertown area. The duo set fires to vacant houses and then helped put the fires out.   There will be a citizenship ceremony at the Erie Federal Courthouse today at 10 [...]

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Erie County Office of Children and Youth union members will be back on the job today. They agreed to return to work for the next two weeks while contract talks continue. Not getting paid and losing health care benefits helped. The county had filed an injunction to force them back to their desks and Judge [...]

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As soon as the site was cleared at the former Koehler Brewery it looked like it would be used for a car dealership and that’s what will happen. Dave Hallman will pave it over and sell cars on the site. Not what anyone had hoped for but at least it will be back on the [...]

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  Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A McGinty toured the site where Lake Erie Biofuels is constructing a state-of-the-art facility that will produce 45 million gallons of biodiesel each year, and spoke with company and local officials about the economic opportunities created by the governor’s Energy Independence Strategy. Biodiesel is becoming an increasingly important [...]

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Thomas Macuilewicz, the former principal at McDowell Intermediate High School, was arraigned on charges of theft yesterday. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing and all charges were bound over for trial. Macuilewicz took nearly everything of value that wasn’t nailed down at the school – computers and musical instruments including 14 synthesizers. Macuilewicz [...]

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The best argument against democracy is five minutes of an average Erie City Council meeting. However, they did pretty well last night electing Joseph Schember to fill the counicl seat caused by the resignation of Dr Lonnie Gatlin. Gatlin resigned for ‘health reasons’ which was a polite way of saying the actual reason which everyone [...]

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NanoLogix (OTC Pink Sheets: NNLX), a nanobiotechnology company engaged in the development and commercialization of technologies for the creation of hydrogen utilizing hydrogen bioreactors, announced that it has signed an agreement for the construction and operation of a prototype hydrogen bioreactor at the City of Erie wastewater treatment plant. This project will utilize the proprietary [...]

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Congrats to Jenny and Mike on the birth of their son Grady Matthew. Grady was 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Both mother and son are healthy and doing great. Me: When is the Erie Management Group going to start the move to the former Hammermill/ IP plant and have their groundbreaking? Boss man: They have already [...]

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