GoErie has abandoned their registration process to view their site. They expect a readership increase of 40-50 percent. Erie City Council issued a major announcement. They vowed a reduction in real estate taxes and a hiring freeze. They also will only meet twice a year from now on saying “The less council is is in [...]

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  Waldameer Amusement Park and Water World held the official ground breaking for the Ravine Flyer II. The Ravine Flyer II will be a wooden roller coaster. The coaster will traverse Peninsula Drive (State Route 832) and have great views of Lake Erie. It is expected to open in 2008.     Erie Bank held [...]

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  GAF Materials Corporation has closed their Erie roofing shingle plant. In January the company announced they were shuttering the 120 year old plant on the bayfront. Around 160 people were laid-off. It will be interesting to see what becomes of the property. It’s located on the bay directly to the left of the Erie [...]

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Bill Sesler, the Erie attorney and developer, announced he has given up on taking over the Parade Street grocery store project. Can’t blame him. Invest Erie Community Development Corporation filed a law suit against the city because the city wouldn’t sell them the land. The city says Invest Erie doesn’t have the financing to get [...]

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  For those of you that didn’t do well in science, ice melts at 32 degrees. Yesterday, a women (name withheld to protect the stupid) was on the ice dunes at Presque Isle State Park when a chunk broke off. Amazingly, she had her cell phone on her, called 911 and was rescued by members [...]

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  A court hearing was held yesterday concerning the Erie Golf Course. The hearing will continue in April. The city wants to sell the property while the Lake Erie Region Conservancy, the Keep Erie Golf Course Open Committee which is headed by former councilman Jim Casey, and Jim Casella, the former assistant city public works [...]

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  A meeting was held on Sunday to discuss Conneaut Lake Park. It’s been a broken record for years. Will the amusement park have the money to open? A court appointed custodian for the park has an agreement of sale to sell 3.3 acres of lakefront property to pay off debt. The $1.7 million sale [...]

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  The first place spot at the 2007 Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition went to an alliance team of students from Erie, Pa. Team 291 is comprised students from The Northwest Collegiate Academy, Erie Villa Maria Academy and Erie Central High School. The competition combined elements of intramural sports, technological wizardry and mechanical repair work. The [...]

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  General McLane won the Pennsylvania Class AAA basketball championship defeating Greencastle-Antrim 57-55. General McLane also won the state Class AAA football title. That’s the first time in Pennsylvania a school has won both titles in the same school year.   On Friday, forty-four people took the oath and became US citizens in a ceremony [...]

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The US Census Bureau released their Annual Estimates of the Population for Counties. According to their guess, the population of Erie County as of July 1, 2006 was 279,811. That’s down 373 people from 2005 estimate of 280,184. The 2000 census figure was 280,843.   The US Committee For Refugees and Immigrants is officially merging [...]

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On Tuesday, County Council Chairman Fiore Leone had a sheriff’s deputy remove Dan Galena from Erie County Council Chambers. Galena is a Republican who is running for the District 7 seat on council. Galena accused council of violating county rules and the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act. Here is the email I received from Mr Galena with [...]

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Three fires claimed three lives in less than 24 hours. Richard Hunt of Corry died in his East Main Street home in a fire that broke out around 1 pm. A fire at 457 West Front St broke out around 2:45 and claimed the life of a women. I’m selling the home next door at [...]

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  Home Depot released in an SEC 8-K filing that Tom Ridge of Erie will not run for election to their board of directors. Ridge was appointed to the board in 2005. When former Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli left the company in January, he received a pay package worth $210 million under an agreement [...]

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