The Greater Erie Board of Realtors reported the Erie County real estate sales for October 2007. Sales were in line with the previous year. The data includes all sales in which a property transfer tax was paid including residential, investment and commercial properties as well as land. In October 2007, there were 437 sales for [...]

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  The Erie PA casino will open today at 9 am. Presque Isle Downs and Casino will be opening, including 2,000 slot machines, following receipt of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s final approval to open the facility. Situated on a 272-acre site, approximately 58.4 acres of which are dedicated to the public as open space, [...]

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Mayor Joe Sinnott will present his 2007 budget to the Erie Chapter of the Flat Earth Society, aka Erie City Council, this morning at 9 am. Without a shadow of a doubt, it will call for an increase of property taxes. Property owners will have the double whammy of lower property values along with the [...]

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Paragon Print Systems formally opened their new building at Joyce A Savocchio Business Park, the former junkyard turned into an industrial park by the Greater Erie Industrial Development Corp. The Paragon Print Systems story has been the story of Erie economic growth for the past decade and will be a story repeated many times in [...]

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I don’t think the people of Erie realize how bad the Buffalo area got hit with snow. There are 390,000 people without power. The Erie hotels are packed with refugees from WNY and cars are streaming down I-90 for food, gas, generators and batteries. On a realated note.. There is now a severe blood shortage [...]

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Great story in today’s Erie newspaper about Erie photo blogger Ron Richardson and his pics of his rubber duck. Erie blogger Michael Mahler was mentioned in a Slate.com article about his comments concerning former Rep Mark Foley. Some drunk hit a telephone pole on Pine Avenue at 2:15 am breaking the pole in two. Power [...]

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Erie City Council member Lonny Gatlin resigned effective immediately. He also has has taken a leave of absence from his job as a dentist at Community Health Net:. The reason stated was a medical condition. That is an extremely polite way of putting it, at least if the word around the water coolers are true. [...]

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Spectrum Control (NASDAQ: SPEC) skyrocketed 2.19 to $9.53. The 29.84 percent increase came the day after their quarterly earnings were released. Net income for the three months ended May 21 was $1.7 million, or 13 cents per share, compared with $1.3 million, or 10 cents, during the same period last year. The company recorded sales [...]

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How do you tell if someone with the City of Erie government is lying? Their lips are moving. The ANNA Shelter received a $100,000 contract to take in Erie stray animals. The property isn’t zoned for that use. They are breaking the law. When Erie City Council approved the contract Jon Whaley, assistant to Mayor [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio announced that he has appointed Larry Meredith as Erie County Personnel Director to lead the Erie County Human Resources department. Meredith was a former Erie City Solicitor and Erie City Council member. He’s a smart guy that everyone seems to like. Condolences to Jenson and her family of the loss [...]

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David Gonzalez, director of Latino services for the Hispanic American Council of Erie, was elected to fill the position on Erie City Council when Joe Sinnott resigned to become mayor. The voting done by council members took ten ballots. Saint Andrew Elementary School, 606 Raspberry Street, could be closing next year as enrollment continues to [...]

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The Marxist-Leninist socialists on Erie City Council obviously agree that raising taxes is easier than cutting spending. They are raising every tax and fee that they can. With this move, businesses and residents will continue in even greater numbers to move beyond the city limits. Council finally agreed on a balanced budget by raising property [...]

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Old-fashioned type post card by the talented Ron Richardson. Click on the image for a full size view. His Flick.com photos can be seen here and his photography site can be found here. The City of Erie sent out two week notices to 26 city employees. Many were politcal appointees that will be replaced when [...]

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Ion Health announced that they are going out of business putting 90 people out of a job. The private Boston-based investment firm JW Childs Associates LP funded the Medicaid/ Medicare HMO. The company cited lower reimbursements from the state but the problem they had was signing up clients. They did a poor job marketing. Ion [...]

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Erie City Council yesterday held a budget review session for the proposed 2006 budget They focused on the Public Works Department. Plans call for 19 workers to be layed-off with a savings of about $2.3 million. However, those 19 workers are teamsters with bumping rights so most of them will still have jobs next year. [...]

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