Along with Mothers Day, three area colleges have their commencements this weekend. Hotels are packed and there are waits at restaurants. The Edinboro University of Pennsylvania commencement will be held today at 1 pm at McComb Fieldhouse with 831 students receiving degrees. The Gannon University commencement will be held today at 2 pm at the [...]

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Robin Hecker, the former Northwestern High School teacher, was sentenced to 6-12 months in prison for having sex with a 16 year old male student. On Friday, a fisherman in Lorain Ohio caught a Chinese mitten crab. This was the fourth found in Lake Erie. To date, there have been 178 invasive species found in [...]

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Pennsylvania State Police responded to a domestic dispute which ended with Richard Vargo taking his own life. Police were warned he might hut himself or police responding to the scene. Vargo came out of a house and took a shot at Trooper Joseph Short. It hit Shorts’ flashlight and ricocheted away. The picture of the [...]

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  The pedestrian bridge linking West Dobbins Landing and the Sassafras Street Pier was lifted into place yesterday. The climate controlled walkway will link the Erie Bayfront Convention Center with the parking garage. The Erie Bayfront Convention Center is now booking events for the Summer of 2007 and beyond. Rooms for weddings, banquets, meetings, exhibits [...]

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Judge William ‘Rusty’ Cunningham postponed the sentencing of Chytoria Graham until June 8. Cunningham was concerned that she didn’t understand what was happening. The blood shortage worsened yesterday with a local patient using over 35 units of blood. As a precaution the Community Blood Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania looked to ‘borrow’ blood from other Community [...]

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Chytoria Graham, who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child stemming from an incident where she swung her month old baby like a baseball bat to hit her boyfriend, will be sentenced today. She will be guest of the state for a minimum of 5 years.   Make your mother [...]

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  Swamp Zombies is being released on Tuesday May 8. The DVD will be available at KillerWolfFilms.com, FYE Music and Movies, Suncoast, Best Buy , Circuit City and other video outlets. Swamp Zombies features Shannon Solo, WWE superstar Blue Meanie, XXX legend Jasmin St Claire, UFC hall of famer Dan “the beast” Severn and sexy [...]

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Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott, City Controller Casimir Kwitowski, Councilman Jim Thompson and city Economic Development Director Kim Green are on a two week trip to Germany and Poland. In Germany, they will visit the Cottbus-Drewitz Airport. and in Poland, the group meets with government and business leaders in Lublin, sister city of Erie. Israel L [...]

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The Greater Erie Industrial Development Corporation was awarded $450,000 to restore rail service to the 120-acre industrial park that once was home to Hammermill and IP, initially servicing two businesses of the Erie Management Group, a multi-million-dollar bio-diesel manufacturing company and a paint/ solvent production facility. Groundbreaking on those two businesses will be held in [...]

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NanoLogix (Pink Sheets: NNLX) announced that hydrogen has been generated at its first commercial scaled-up hydrogen bioreactor facility at the Welch Food’s plant in North East, Pennsylvania. The technology behind the hydrogen bioreactor, developed and proprietary to NanoLogix, is intended to enable manufacturing facilities to convert their waste stream into hydrogen. The alternative energy source [...]

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Edwin Brown of Corry was found not guilty of assault. He was charged for spanking the six year old child of his fiance. I’m not making this up. Erie native Beverly Morris heads the National Association of Non Custodial Moms, a nonprofit support and resource group. She and her husband slit up and six years [...]

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The body of Bill Rossey of Meadville was found late Sunday in French Creek. He was reported missing in late October. Ed Palattella, of the Erie Times-News, received a Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill Award for print journalism in the Continuing Coverage category for “Garvey Era Ends,” about the resignation of alleged child [...]

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Nice job by Laura Gray of WJET-TV updating the progress at the East Erie Turners (no website). Dave Stevens of the Dave Stevens Big Band (website expired) and his business partner purchased the building and are modernizing the decor. It looked pretty good. I was under the impression that it would be open to the [...]

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Fullington Trailways is cancelling their DuBois to Erie and return trip to Clarion effective July 1 due to low ridership. Fullington/Greyhound is based in Clearfield. Jessica Meeker is looking for a job in Erie. She is looking to work at Hot Topic or Papa Johns. Meeker could be running either of those companies in a [...]

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The Erie County Fair will take place this year. A deal was worked out with Northwest Savings Bank to extend the deadline for the mortgage on the property to November. The fair willl take place August 27 through September 2. Pennsylvania has confirmed eight mumps cases so far including cases in Erie County. The national [...]

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