It’s sugaring time!

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Gallery night is coming up on Friday!

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Agosta sets Olympic record

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60 Minutes will feature the John Kanzius story of his radio wave cancer treatment machine on Sunday, April 13. The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure? previews the story. 60 Minutes will air after coverage of “The Masters”, some time after 7 pm ET. Trials on animals have shown that the idea works. It has been [...]

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The Warren Times Observer reported that a fire in a vacuum tower occurred at the United Refining Company refinery in Warren. The crude oil unit will be down for a few days, although production at the refinery will continue, but at a reduced rate. The refinery processes a max of 70,000 barrels of oil per [...]

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Tilting at windmills, Erie City Council passed a resolution calling for the City Solicitor Greg Karle to write up an ordinance calling for continuous monitoring at the proposed tires to energy plant. Karle has already told council that any effort to make emissions laws tougher than the current state or federal laws wouldn’t survive a [...]

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Erie Indemnity Company (Erie Insurance) (Nasdaq: ERIE) announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year end 2007. Net operating income per share (excluding net realized gains or losses on investments and related taxes) was $0.69 in each of the fourth quarters of 2007 and 2006. Net income was $32.6 million for the fourth quarter [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio still hasn’t resigned or been arrested. Improprieties about the misuse by DiVecchio of county employees, equipment and materials continue to mount. Clueless, arrogant DiVecchio still doesn’t realize what he did was wrong. DiVecchio used county employees on county time with county equipment to plow his home driveway. Other instances of [...]

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The State Ethics Commission is aware of Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio having an Erie County employee using Erie County equipment being told to plow his driveway. They are also aware of DiVecchio using county employees to help his sister move and also using county employees to help set up a booth at Celebrate Erie [...]

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Just because the posted speed limit is 65 mph, doesn’t mean you HAVE to go 65, especially when it’s snowing and the wind is howling. I-90 was shut down for hours between Harborcreek and Wesleyville due to accidents. As soon as that was reopened around 3 pm, I-79 was closed between McKean and Edinboro. It [...]

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Chytoria Graham was sentenced by Judge Rusty Cunningham to 5-10 years in prison for swinging her 4 week old baby like a baseball bat at her boyfriend, the father of 2 of her 5 children. The baby suffered a fractured skull and other injuries in the Oct 8 incident after Graham came home from a [...]

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  Artur Santos, a 3 year old boy, has Maple Syrup Urine Disease, a genetic disease most common in the Amish community. On Tuesday December 4, Artur will have leg surgery at the Shriner’s Hospital of Erie. He won’t be able to be on his feet again for the next 6 weeks. The Santos family [...]

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  Vote For Hal!  Zabaware’s Ultra Hal software won the “most human” computer of the year in the 17th annual Loebner Prize Competition for Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Loebner Prize is an annual competition where software programs attempt to convince human judges that they are actually people. The format of the competition is called a [...]

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US Airways is dropping the Erie to Pittsburgh route on January 6 but service to Philadelphia will continue. With decisions like this it’s no wonder US Despair is losing money. The airline also dropped Pittsburgh service to Toronto, Louisville, Nashville, Chicago, Denver, Charleston, and Norfolk. Congratulations to Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott turning down the proposal [...]

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  Rick Kaczenski of Erie PA will soon be named defensive line coach at the University of Iowa. Kaczenski has served as a grad assistant at Iowa the past tow years. He served as the offensive line and tight ends coach at Elon University in 2004. He held the same position at East Tennessee State [...]

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Allegheny College edged Penn State in the name game. Back in September, Penn State announced they were changing the name of Penn State – McKeesport to Penn State – Allegheny. Allegheny College was none to happy and threatened legal action. Penn State gave in a little and the branch will now be renamed Penn State [...]

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The Harbor Creek School District fired David Sidelinger for refusing a photo ID badge. Sidelinger sued the district wearing saying a photo badge was against his religious beliefs. The case was pretty much over when an attorney for the district wondered why it wasn’t against his religious beliefs to have his photo plastered on a [...]

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The Manufacturers’ Association of Northwest Pennsylvania announced they will file a lawsuit against the Erie County smoking ban. In a letter addressed to Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio and Council Chairman Fiore Leone, Manufacturers’ Association President Ralph Pontillo announced the Association’s plans to seek legal action, after receiving overwhelming response to a smoking-ban poll that [...]

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Erie City Council held a Saturday budget session and rubber stamped the budget submitted by Mayor Joe Sinnott making only one minor change of $24,000 to the $59.9 million budget. The formal vote on the budget will be held at the regular council meeting on December 20. Council made no cuts to the budget only [...]

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  Presque Isle Downs will open on February 15, 2007. At lest that’s the tenative date they announced. They’re still at the mercy of construction workers and the weather. The slots-only casino is located at the intersection of I-90 and Route 97 (Exit 27).   The Inner-City Neighborhood Art House in Erie was the subject [...]

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Officials with Presque Isle Downs held a press conference and released some construction photos and had a number of artist images of what the facilities will look like. They are finally almost done pushing dirt around and are now pouring concrete. They plan on having live racing and the slots going by Fall 2007. The [...]

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