We hope you enjoyed your Labor Day Weekend. Even though summer is unofficially over, there is still plenty to do in town. If you have some time this week, you can check out the Waterford Fair, which runs through next Saturday.
We don’t understand all the hubbub about the President of the United States [...]

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Mother Nature cooperated this year and there is plenty of fresh powder at Peek N Peak and it’s just in time for the annual lift ticket giveaway! The Community Blood Bank wants donors and is enticing them with lift tickets on Tuesday. Peek ‘N Peak Ski Resort has generously donated over $10,000 worth of ski [...]

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The headline news for today has nothing to do with the election.  It’s the weather.  Yesterday, Erie saw it’s first snow fall of the season with more headed this way.  The map above shows Erie is smack-dab in the middle of a Nor’easter heading our way with 3-6 inches of snow fall.  A meteorologist from [...]

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Visitors from July 2007 through June 2008
VisitErie has released their hotel tax report for June 2008. VisitErie had predicted a 5% increase in hotel tax revenue for fiscal year July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008 and they ended the fiscal year with a 13% increase from last year, exceeding our expectations. During the 2006-2007 [...]

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Oops. Erie City Council and Erie County Council agreed on a swap of $2 million and the Millcreek Golf and Learning Center property for the Erie Golf Course so Erie Airport can move ahead on a runway expansion project. They forgot one little detail – Millcreek Township. No Millcreek Township officials were at the meeting [...]

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A tentative agreement has been reached between Millcreek Township School District and the teachers union, the Millcreek Education Association. Details were not announced so that the teachers could get the details first.
 
 
Bliley Technologies, an international provider of crystal-based frequency control solutions based in Erie PA, and Allan Space-Time Solutions, lead by renowned atomic clock physicist, [...]

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The Millcreek Township School District sent a letter to parents about the possible teacher strike. Unless things change and progress is made at our next negotiation session, there will be no school for students beginning Thursday, February 1. The new Pennsylvania Strike Law will have teachers back to work after 11 days, so that students [...]

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The Millcreek Township School District has cancelled classes for February 1, the first day teachers could strike. Teachers could go on strike twice for a total of 20 days. It appears they are getting close to agreeing to a new contract but they aren’t quite there yet. The two sides are a couple of percent [...]

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The Presque Isle Downs website is now live. Not bad for a businesss that is little more than 270 acres of mud. The restaurant will be called La Bonne Vie (the good life) Steakhouse.
Presque Isle Downs is progressing with the land development work and construction of the Erie racino. The Company still expects to initiate [...]

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Erie Indemnity Company today announced results for the third quarter 2005. Erie Indemnity Company provides management services to the member companies of the Erie Insurance Group. Management fee revenue decreased by 1.9 percent to $241.6 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2005. The lower management fee rate in the third quarter of 2005 of [...]

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Erie County Executive candidate Dale McBrier held a press conference at the site of the future Presque Isle Downs saying that MTR Gaming shouldn’t be getting a taxpayer subsidy. Former used car salesman and point man for MTR, Greg Rubino, showed up and said the opening of the race track and slot’s casino could be [...]

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