Tonight begins one of our favorite summer events, the North East Firemen’s Cherry Festival. This year is the 64th for the festival, which runs through July 18th. The fun begins at 5:30 pm each evening through Friday, and on Saturday starting at noon. Parking and admission are free, and the grounds are located on Route [...]

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The 63rd Annual North East Firemen’s Cherry Festival (official site) starts Tuesday, July 8 and runs through Saturday, July 12. It’s a short drive from Erie and worth checking out for the great food and the chance to check out the North East community. The festival features free parking and free admission, and there will [...]

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Former City of Erie Finance Director Chuck Herron has your social security number, tax records, employer information and income information for all people that lived or worked in Erie in 1999. This is what the thief Chuck Herron stole from the city when he was fired. The white collar criminal Herron used those records to [...]

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Erie based RentWay (NYSE: RWY), an operator of 790 rent-to-own stores in 34 states, is up for sale and has hired investment bank Citigroup to oversee the process. Rent-Way shares jumped 7.5 percent to $8.14 on the New York Stock Exchange after Reuters reported the news just before the closing bell. Shares closed at $8.10, [...]

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Jack Tirak has started a new blog called Erie Media-Go-Round. Tirak is ‘THE’ expert on Erie media. He seems to have agnered a couple of people at WSEE. The blog, including the comments, is a must read. Who at Case Management Support Services pissed off a Erie County Council member? County Council council voted 5-2 [...]

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Erie native Maria Sansone is now working for Yahoo hosting a daily called The 9. The 9 is a short video show with “the 9 best, weirdest and funniest photos, sites, stories and videos on the ‘net.” At 25 she has now spent over half her life in front of a camera having worked for [...]

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A group of 5 guys attending the Rochester Institute Of Technology, including Jim Kohler of Erie PA, formed a band called the Invictas. Herb Gross and the Invictas had a huge regional hit in 1965 with “The Hump.” Graduation, the Viet Nam War and life happend. Two years ago the band reformed. This Summer, the [...]

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A 9 year old boy from Wattsburg was part of a group of Cub Scouts hiking when the edge of the trail gaveway and he tumbled 200 feet down the western rim of the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon. Although he’ll be black and blue, he wasn’t seriously hurt. Three new microbreweries will be openg soon in [...]

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Erie County District Attorney Brad Foulk said at a news conference on Friday that no charges will be filed in the deaths of Andrew Miller and Amber Miller. The two were riding a Sea-Doo and collided with a 38 foot Donzi driven by Ryan LaRiccia. The Donzi had the right of way. The Fireside Restaurant [...]

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The blood supply dropped to the lowest levels of the year, endangering patients of all types at area hospitals. The Fourth of July holiday proved to be the worst holiday weekend in years for the blood supply with very heavy blood use at regional hospitals. Everyone is urged to take the 30 minutes out to [...]

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Goverment officials from the County announced that a grant of $46,000 for the Erie County Fair. The fair will be held August 27 through September 2 at the fairgounds in Wattsburg. David M Gottschling of Erie, Pa has been arrested for attempted robbery and armed robbery of 2 convience stores in the Jamestown, NY area. [...]

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Cara Spadacene of Millcreek entered a guilty plea that she ripped of the taxpayers of Erie County of $36,000. Spadacene was ‘reimbursed’ for driving over 71,000 miles while working for the Office of Children and Youth. She would have had to average nearly 40 miles per hour worked to put those kind of miles on [...]

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An Amish family of a father and his two sons were fishing at the Union City Reservoir when their boat overturned. The father, Joas Troyer, was rescued by someone on the shore. Stephen and Matthew of Spartansburg drowned. None of the victims wore life jackets. Last August, the Erie SeaWolves distributed team pictures with the [...]

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Mike Lueck ran into his Lake City neighbors burning home and pulled Pat Dunn to safety. Dunn, who is elderly, suffered severe burns and is in a Pittsburgh hospital. The only person who doesn’t think Mike Lueck is a hero is Mike Lueck. On sunday afternoon, Indiana state police says the driver of a mini-van [...]

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