Cuts cuts and more cuts.

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The Washtenaw County (Michigan) Sheriff’s Department announced a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case of the murder if Erie, PA native Lindsay Graygo. The money is from the Ypsilanti Township government. Graygo had relocated to Ypsilanti, MI about a year ago. The Ann Arbor News reported that [...]

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Mike Crotty was killed in the line of duty while fighting a fire at Port Erie Plastics. Crotty was serving with the Lawrence Park Township Volunteer Fire Department where he was Deputy Chief. Crotty served as a volunteer with the department for six years. Crotty was also a paid firefighter with the Erie Fire Department. [...]

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Got the word last night that Erie PA native Maria Sansone is leaving ‘The 9′ on Yahoo! and will be doing a new show on YouTube. Her new yet to be named show will launch in a few weeks. The US Census Bureau released their yearly metropolitan and micropolitan statistical area population estimates. They guessed [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio still hasn’t resigned or been arrested. DiVecchio has been accused of a laundry list of improprieties of misuse of government employees and assets. He will sit down on Friday with Erie County Controller Sue Weber to try and explain away the charges. Erie County Council members have no plans to [...]

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A group of 10 port authority and municipal government officials met in Mentor, Ohio to discuss ferry service across Lake Erie. Nobody from the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority in Erie, PA attended. Ferry service between Fairport Harbor, Ohio to Port Burwell, Ontario and Cleveland, Ohio to Port Stanley, Ontario is in the planning stages. Ferry [...]

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Erie broke a record high yesterday when it reached 67 degrees. Then the cold front went through. Winds gusts reaching 65 mph have knocked down branches and trees everywhere. Penelec crews are working at restoring power. The Fort LeBoeuf School District is closed today and others such as General McLane are on delays because of [...]

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  Erie Blogger Scott McCausland has been ordered by the United States Government to switch to Windows from Ubuntu, a free Debian derived Linux-based operating system. Scott is on probation and the monitoring system will only run on Windows. This comes awful close to cruel and unusual punishment. His related entry. There have been a [...]

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Spectrum Control of Erie (Nasdaq: SPEC) reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $2.8 million, or 20 cents per diluted share, on sales of $33.6 million, compared to net income of $1.7 million or 13 cents per share on sales of $31.9 million for the same period last year. For the first half of fiscal 2007, [...]

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Valerie Cantu, a former Gannon student, was arrested for making terroristic threats. Cantu called a current Gannon student and told her not to go to classes because there was going to be a massacre. Erie Police were notified of the threat. They called the FBI. The anonymous called was easily traced. Police called Cantu and [...]

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  Staff Sergeant Ed Chorney of Erie PA, a 16th Airborne Command and Control Squadron flight engineer, is now engaged to his girlfriend of four years, Staff Sergeant Sarah Radel, a air traffic controller with the 506th Operations Support Squadron. The proposal was a little bit unusual to say the least. SSG Chorney was 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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The Millcreek Township School District sent a letter to parents about the possible teacher strike. Unless things change and progress is made at our next negotiation session, there will be no school for students beginning Thursday, February 1. The new Pennsylvania Strike Law will have teachers back to work after 11 days, so that students [...]

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The state is returning $1.5 million in tax money to Erie County. Here is the complete press release. The highlights – GE Transportation Systems in Erie received $500,000 to implement lean manufacturing techniques at its rail plants in Erie and Grove City, Mercer County, a project that is expected to cost $12.8 million. GE has [...]

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Erie County Council appointed Charles Augustine to the seat formerly held by Joy Greco. Augustine spent years working as a pharmacist and part of the management team at the county owned Pleasant Ridge Nursing Home so he has a good understanding of how council operates. An official vote will take place today and then he [...]

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Within 10 years, over 1 million people will be working in the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) industry. RFID is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is an object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or [...]

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Erie based Spectrum Control (Nasdaq: SPEC), a leading designer and manufacturer of electronic control products and systems, announced that it has acquired all of the outstanding common stock of Advanced Thermal Products. ATP, based in St Marys, Pennsylvania, designs and manufactures custom temperature sensors. The total purchase price of the acquisition was $9.3 million. This [...]

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Scott Wludyga is leaving WJET-TV and Fox 66. Booo. Scott is taking a teaching position at Pymatuning Valley High School. He’s keeping his home in Erie and driving the 60 miles to Andover, OH each day. That’s going to get old quick. Luke Simons is taking over the weekday sports duties. No word on who [...]

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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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NanoLogix (OTC Pink Sheets: NNLX), a nanobiotechnology company engaged in the development and commercialization of technologies for the creation of hydrogen utilizing hydrogen bioreactors, announced that it has signed an agreement for the construction and operation of a prototype hydrogen bioreactor at the City of Erie wastewater treatment plant. This project will utilize the proprietary [...]

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Judge Ernie DiSantis dismissed the bribery charges against former Erie Mayor Rick Filippi and his business partners Rolf Patberg and Eric Purchase. The group who still has a bundle of charges facing them including conspiracy, conflict of interest and using inside information. Filippi, Patberg and Purchase formed a partnership called Aiko Acquisitions which bought properties [...]

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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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The US Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center reported that Northeast Ohio received their second earthquake in a week. The latest quake happened on Friday at 10:32:17 am. The Magnitude 2.4 micro earthquake was centered in the Cleveland suburb of Eastlake, OH which is about 73 miles SW of Erie PA. It happened at a [...]

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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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Erie based Spectrum Control has purchased the former Murata Erie plant near Harrisburg PA for $1 (but Murata received $5.1 for the property with the state footing the bill). They will initially hire 130 workers. The Murata plant will become Spectrum Control’s ceramic operations design and manufacturing center, replacing a New Orleans plant that was [...]

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Republican Dale McBrier has conceded the Erie County Executive race. He will not ask for a recount nor persue any court challenges. Pretty smart move since the writing was on the wall already. Democrat Mark DiVecchio has leading in the official count by 122 votes. McBrier had the lead at the end of election night [...]

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America’s Most Wanted will air new info on the Brian Wells pizza bomber case this Saturday, November 5 at 9 pm. On August 28, 2003, Brian Wells, a 46-year-old pizza deliveryman from Erie PA, perished as a bomb that was strapped around his neck exploded. Authorities have been puzzled by the bizarre details of that [...]

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The Housing Authority of the City of Erie (HACE) yesterday held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Authority’s Parade Street Mixed-Use Development, 1401 Parade Street. The Housing Authority’s $1.9 million Parade Street Mixed-Use Development will contain commercial space and residential live/work condominium units.

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The City of Erie laid-off six people on Tuesday and as many as sixty more could be gone by Friday. The city is running about a four million dollar deficit this year. The drop in the bucket action of laying off people should save around a half million to one million dollars. Almost 40 percent [...]

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