For 14 seasons, Hines Ward has put up Hall of Fame numbers as a receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. This past season, Ward became the eighth player in NFL history to record 1,000 receptions, to go along with 12,083 career receiving yards and 85 touchdowns. This stellar career has put the former University of Georgia [...]

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If you’re reading this, you’re seeing our new site. Here’s a post with more information about it. Don’t worry, until all the domains get transferred, you’ll notice our domain for the moment is burghblogs.com. It’s just a placeholder. Now, on to today’s post. ErieBlogs readers = stunned. Senators McCain and Obama engaged in the second [...]

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The estate of Brittany Legler is suing the Erie County Office of Children and Youth alleging that actions and inactions by the agency contributed to her death. They’ve got a good case. Brittany Legler died from continual beatings by her adoptive mother Lisa Iarussi. Iarussi was sentenced to 7-14 years. It’s the job of the [...]

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There was a huge crowd at Celebrate Erie 2006 on Friday. There was an estimated 40-50,000 thousand people with 20-25,000 on hand to watch the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys turned out to be a very good choice with pre-teens to people old enough to be their great grandparents enjoying their show which lasted over [...]

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There was a high speed chase through the city on Wednesday involving a man who exposed himself. A shooting, yeah, chase the suspect. But for a lewd act? It was just luck that not kids riding bikes or playing in the street were seriously hurt. Here is the Erie newspaper story on the incident. And [...]

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Anne Majerik of Erie PA was awarded $2.1 million by a jury in LA. Majerik paid $125,000 to Beverly Hills matchmaker Orly Hadida, said she was promised time with “a cultured gentleman” and his “estate of up to $20 million.” She said all she got were a few introductions to some inappropriate men. Majerik, 60, [...]

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The Tom Ridge Environmental Center (TREC) opens on Friday. This is a MUST SEE. Admission is free. They held a sneak preview for the media on Thursday. Yes, kids bloggers are part of the media as I was invited to attend thanks to Emily McCullor and Lisa Anderson-Titcombe of the Presque Isle Partnership. The building [...]

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The immature little children of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania are holding a one day boycott of Edinboro businesses because the borough passed a noise ordinance aimed at cutting down on loud music coming from vehicles. Most cities have a noise ordinance but Edinboro students are likely ignorant of that fact. Even the Edinboro Student Government [...]

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The loud flushing sound heard in Erie PA on Thursday was a campaign going down the toilet. Gubernatorial candidate Bill Scranton made a campaign stop in Erie and made national news firing his campaign manager James Seif for making racial remarks about Lynn Swann. Seif appeared late Wednesday on a television call-in show about the [...]

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Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott and Erie City Council sat down and listened to a couple of money saving suggestions the consulting firm of Resource Development and Management. The scheduling of Erie Firefighters was one concern. Currently firefighters work one 24 hour shift and then have 3 days off. Changing that to working 24 hours and [...]

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Erie based Spectrum Control has purchased the former Murata Erie plant near Harrisburg PA for $1 (but Murata received $5.1 for the property with the state footing the bill). They will initially hire 130 workers. The Murata plant will become Spectrum Control’s ceramic operations design and manufacturing center, replacing a New Orleans plant that was [...]

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Erie City Council yesterday held a budget review session for the proposed 2006 budget They focused on the Public Works Department. Plans call for 19 workers to be layed-off with a savings of about $2.3 million. However, those 19 workers are teamsters with bumping rights so most of them will still have jobs next year. [...]

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