Here we come a wassailing…

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If you have a chance, please stop by the Community Blood Bank this week. Donors all week can win a box of stuff including a Country Fair Gas card, meals from Taco Bell, Ice cream from Ben & Gerry’s and a CBB sweatshirt, Polo shirt & even a coveted blood bank clock with 24 hour [...]

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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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Unfortunately, more bad news for the local economy today. Lord Corporation has laid off 46 employees. The job losses were divided between their Erie and Cary, N.C. facilities. The cuts were across the board. 31 of the positions were split between Erie and Cary and 15 are in a manufacturing facility in Kentucky. The cuts [...]

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The weather is pretty much the big story of the week. The southbound lanes of Interstate 79 was closed for several hours yesterday due to an accident. How surprised were you it wasn’t I-90 this time?  Not too much we’d guess, as portions of I-90 from the Pennsylvania border well into New York were closed [...]

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Joshua Lilly of Erie has been sentenced to 7 to 14 years in state prison for molesting a girl, who was 8 or 9 years old at the time of the crime. Jeremy Noyes, who was arrested last month by the FBI for among other things, wanting to start a colony of sex slaves, is [...]

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Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy US Academic Decathlon team, the 2008 Pennsylvania state champion, took third place at the National Academic Decathlon competition at Garden Grove, California. The team competed in Division III, the small schools category. Members of the team are: Amy Babay, Stephanie Engel, and Sumner Nichols (Honors); Amal Abukar, Alexa Johnson, and Rebekah [...]

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GE Infrastructure Rail said yesterday that it received a contract worth more than $450 million to supply 300 locomotives to the Chinese Ministry of Railways. Most of the locomotive kits, which include engines, alternators, motors and other machinery, will be manufactured at the Erie GE plant. Last year, China awarded over $300 million in contracts [...]

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