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My kind of biker.

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Steris Corporation announced they have reached a tentative non-binding agreement to sell their property in Erie to IRG (Industrial Realty Group). That’s great news for the Erie area as IRG has an excellent rack record of turning industrial properties into mixed use complexes. Steris only put the property up for sale a couple of months [...]

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Meryhurst College made 2 major announcements yesterday. The bullshit was so deep the cameras could only shoot from the necks up. Mercyhurst said they were giving the City of Erie $500,000 over the next 3 years and also canceling their Fourth of July celebration. (Press release.) I can see why they dumped the Fourth of [...]

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  The Pennsylvania State Police are urging motorists to buckle up and drive safely during the Thanksgiving holiday driving period. State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B Miller said he has directed troopers to adopt a “zero-tolerance policy” toward violations of the state’s seatbelt and child passenger restraint laws. “If a driver is stopped for a traffic [...]

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The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled against surrogate mother Danielle Bimber and is ordering her to turn over the three children to James Flynn. This reverses the ruling by Erie County Judge Shad Connelly. The triplets were born on November of 2003 and Bimber has had them since that time. The court blamed both Bimber and [...]

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Edinboro University students Tyrell Ware and Marlon Gunn were found guilty of a number of charges for the beating of a man of April 2005. The two along with Urlene Boisette assaulted a fellow student who they thought turned them in to campus police. The three were busted by campus police for drugs and went [...]

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Life Line choose Jackson Township, Ohio over Erie, Pa for their new call center. Nice job by the Erie politicians and the 25 Erie area economic development agencies that have failed again. Life Line Screening, a Cleveland-based provider of preventive health screenings across the country will hire 120 employees with a starting pay of $10 [...]

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MTR Gaming Group (Nasdaq:MNTG) announced that it is pursuing the issuance of $125,000,000 of Senior Subordinated Notes through a private placement. The Company will use the net proceeds of the proposed private placement of Senior Subordinated Notes to complete construction of its Presque Isle Downs race track and slot machine facility, to pay the $50 [...]

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The City of Erie has laid-off police officers and firefighters, has millions in unpaid bills it can’t afford to pay and is generally close to the brink of financial disaster yet they are spending $30,l76 to plant 112 trees around the city. Maybe the trees will be put in the potholes on the streets we [...]

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Tommy Carr would have been 45 years old today. He was born on April 17, 1961. Tom was a two-time District 10 AAA Champion and two-time All-State wrestler for Tech Memorial. He kicked my ass pretty bad one year. He went on to wrestle for Clemson University where he graduated with a degree in electrical [...]

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Harborcreek Township received a $500,000 federal grant for the for its $2.6 million Shades Beach Off-Shore Improvements Project. The latest grant will be used for a walkway and parking. The next step will be boat launches and breakwalls which could be in place by next Fall. Shades Beach is located at 7000 East Lake Road [...]

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Trout fishing season opens in Pennsylvania today at 8 am. The US Brig Niagara will be prepared for the Summer sailing season today. The tarp will be removed and the masts (118 feet and 113 feet) and rigging will be installed. The Journal of Asian Martial Arts is a publication that examines the history, culture [...]

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Erie East High School grad Goran Rahim is now a published author. His book of poems is titled “A Faded Love“. Rahim was was born just miles outside the Kurdish city of Kirkuk, Iraq. He was 5 when Saddam Hussein began killing ethnic Kurds. His family fled to Pakistan. At age 16 his family resettled [...]

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A bomb threat cleared out the Erie County Courthouse for 2 hours yesterday morning. A search turned up nothing. Greater Erie Youth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Eduardo Espinel is amoung four finalists to become conductor and music director of the Amarillo TX Symphony. Espinel will conduct the Oct. 27-28 concerts. Born in Venezuela, Espinel studied [...]

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Erby Conley of Erie is a leading candidate to become the police commissioner of Easton, PA. Conley was Commander of Troop E of the Pennsylvania State Police in Erie and also served as Public Safety Director for the City of Erie. Penelec has filed for a rate increase of $157 million to $206 million. Rates [...]

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Incumbent Republican state Representative John Evans will face a challenge in the May primary election from Erie County Council member Carol Loll for the 5th District seat. The district covers western Erie and northwestern Crawford County. Evans was one of those that voted for the legislative pay raise last July. The new CD by Train, [...]

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