Hackers from China broke into Pennsylvania government web site prompting the decision to take down nearly the entire system. It was back up later in the day after being down for several hours. Steris Corporation announced they closed on the sale of their 525,000 sq ft manufacturing complex on 25 acres in Erie, PA. Industrial [...]

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  According to The Tax Foundation in their 2006 report on Property Taxes on Owner Occupied Housing by County, Erie County Pennsylvania has the 55th highest property taxes in the nation out of 783 counties (or parishes). That will change next year as the following four member of Erie County Council voted to raise your [...]

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The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, who represent 4,500 sisters, announced a press conference yesterday at which the presidents of 25 regional communities of the order would call on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. The Erie, Pa., regional community of the Sisters of Mercy set May 4 as a day of prayer and [...]

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The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) will be coming to Erie PA on December 5th to ask refugees from Bosnia to donate a couple of drops of blood for DNA testing in an effort to identify some of the more than 26,000 victims found in mass graves or dumped in forests. Since November 2001, [...]

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The Salvation Army purchased the gas station/garage at 13th and Sassafras. They are demolishing the structure for a parking lot. Saint Vincent’s is buying houses along Sassafras between 24th and 25th and tearing them down for a parking lot. If the city complains that non-profits own over 40 percent Erie real estate, why do they [...]

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RailPower Technologies Corp and Ocean Tug and Barge Engineering Corp announced a supply and licensing agreement whereby RailPower will license its technologies to OTB for marine applications and supply, through OTB, its hybrid power systems to tug and barge operating companies, tug and towboat builders and shipyards involved in the construction of a wide range [...]

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WSEE is the CBS station shown in the Caribbean on the Primetime24 satellite. The New York Times did a story on the station because WSEE has a separate taped weather forecast for the Caribbean. Satellite viewers don’t see the Erie forecast but they do see our local news. WSEE’s meteorologists do four daily weather reports [...]

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