Some folks from Wisconsin didn’t think much of the Lou.

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Great schools and good music

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The Erie Times-News / GoErie.com reported that Teri Rhodes will enter a guilty plea on Friday. Everyone involved is being tight lipped about the deal. The plea deal takes the death penalty off the table. If the deal does not include a VERY long prison sentence, I think there will be community outrage. Rhodes murdered [...]

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Erie received a little bit of snow the past two days. The city seemed to be hardest hit as about 21-26 inches fell. Most church services are cancelled. Call ahead before you leave for anything. Shovel out and make sure to check your clocks we lost an hour of sleep with Daylight Savings Time. The [...]

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Out of 360 metropolitan areas that the US Census Bureau tracks, only 62 metropolitan areas increased housing construction in 2007. Erie PA was 20th highest in the nation ranked by the percentage change in the January through October total units permitted, with an increase of 40.1 percent. The increase in Erie is attributed to developers [...]

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The Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership published the Interim Report on Activity, Findings, and Recommendations prepared by the Mayoral Advisory Group. A group of 40 business and community leaders volunteered their busy lives to give advise to the city to improve finances and avoid Act 47, distressed city status. The ink wasn’t even dry [...]

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  The Best Places to Work in PA winners were announced and 3 Erie companies made the 2007 list for large size companies. Saint Vincent Health System was 5th, Stairways Behavioral Health was 16th and Hamot Medical Center was 48th. No area companies made the list in the medium size category. Registration for the 2008 [...]

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Questions are now being raised as to why Malcolm Kysor, who escaped from prison on Sunday and is still on the loose, was transferred from maximum security prisons to the State Correctional Institution at Albion, a medium security prison. Kysor was sentenced to life without parole for a 1981 murder in Erie County. Wonder if [...]

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There was an incident happen at Country Fair store 55 in Meadville where a man brought a little girl into the store and somehow while a female employee and a female customer were talking to the girl they found out that she had been adducted. They managed to call the police and keep the man [...]

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A symposium on the John Kanzius cancer treatment was held yesterday at Mercyhurst College. The place was packed yet you could have heard a pin drop. People in attendance soaked in every word. Dr Steven Curley of M D Anderson Cancer Center and Kanzius spoke. Since Kanzius came up with the treatment, every bit of [...]

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  The Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy USAD team leaves today for the National Academic Decathlon in Honolulu, Hawaii. Students will take Mathematics, Social Science, Language and Literature, and Art tests as well as competing in Speech and Interview. The competition concludes on Friday, April 27, with Economics, Music, and Science tests as well as the [...]

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  Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy won the United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) Pennsylvania state competition and will move on to the national competition, which takes place in Hawaii this year. This year’s team comprises Amy Babay, Matt Faytak, and Samantha Ohmer (honors); Amal Abukar, Alexa Johnson, and Alicia Quick (scholastic); and Josh Ohmer, Celeste Trombetta, [...]

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Three years ago today, on August 28 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells was allegedly locked into a bombing device by a stranger and ordered to rob a PNC bank branch on Peach St in Erie, Pennsylvania. When he was detained by state police following the robbery, the bomb exploded, killing him instantly. The [...]

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On Monday, the Holyoke (Massachusets) Redevelopment Committee will get an update on negotiations between the city and Mandalay Sports Entertainment of Los Angeles. The company has proposed relocating its Double-A baseball team from Erie, Pa and investing $110 million to build a 6,500-seat stadium, housing, offices and retail space. Mandalay, owner of the Erie SeaWolves, [...]

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Steris officials have to be kicking themselves for how they handled the closing of manufacturing in Erie. First, they gave the workers months of advance warning that they would be laid-off so they could look for other jobs or get retrained in another field. They only had to give a 90 day notice. Now the [...]

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This week Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott cost the taxpayers of Erie hundreds of thousands of dollars to appease the firefighters union with the re-opening of the Marsh Street Garage. Erie Firefighters worked on his campaign and contributed money to his campaign fund. Mayor Rick Filippi consolidated the garages of the police department, fire department and [...]

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Nick Scott is quoted in todays Cleveland Plain Dealer saying that plans are in the works for another expansion of Splash Lagoon Indoor Water Park in Erie. Why? To keep the large crowds coming back they want to keep the place fresh. Just last year two new slides, another hot tub, another restaurant and more [...]

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A Pennsylvania State Police Clandestine Lab Response Team took part a meth lab bust in Wesleyville. This marks the 9th lab that this team has cleaned up on 3 weeks. There is an excellent article by Mike Bucsko in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the budget troubles Erie is experiencing. Pittsburgh entered a state-mandated financial recovery [...]

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Trina Orlando will be the new morning anchor for WJET-TV beginning on Monday. She will also appear on WFXP. Orlando is a 2002 graduate of Mt Pleasant Junior/Senior High School which is about 40 miles Southeast of Pittsburgh. She attended the University of Southern California doble majoring in broadcast journalism and political science. The exotic [...]

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There was a house fire at 25th and State Streets. The family of 6 got out safe but they lost everything. Keep your ears open to see which local bank will set up an account for the family and donate a buck or two. Every fire around town brings out the tears from our firemen. [...]

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