Kristy Wallace, the delightful young lady who handles the front desk for Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio, awakened yesterday morning to find that someone had rammed their truck into her garage. The garage was
destroyed, and the driver of the truck left behind some blood, but has not been found. Fortunately, Kristy’s car was not in [...]

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Lilly Broadcasting will carry the second annual Community for Kanzius Cancer Research Fund Telethon this evening on WSEE, WICU, and the CW.  Let’s all do our best to help them top last year’s total of almost $100,000 dollars.
Patricia Fronzaglia, of Warsaw Ave, became the first recipient of the Maleno family-to-Family Fund’s Home Makeover.  Mrs Fronzaglia has been disabled [...]

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Unemployment figures were released yesterday and Erie had the highest unemployment rate for Pennsylvania’s largest metropolitan areas at 9.7 percent for July.  In terms of county-wide unemployment, Erie County was at 9.7 percent while Crawford County was at 10.4 percent.  Since July 2008, Erie County’s unemployment rate has increased by 4.1 points.  Also noted, Erie [...]

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You know what we need in Erie? A Sonic. For some reason, they play commercials in our area all the time yet the closest ones were in Pittsburgh and Akron. Actually, a new one just opened this past weekend in Parma, south of Cleveland. I hit it up over the weekend and it was cool. [...]

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Well well well. What do we have here.
I lamented and you, the awesome people of Erie, came through, more then I could have imagined. Ads were sold, writers recruited and it feels awesome to have your support. If you missed a few posts over the weekend, go and check them out. Brian’s new Way [...]

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If you’re reading this, you’re seeing our new site. Here’s a post with more information about it. Don’t worry, until all the domains get transferred, you’ll notice our domain for the moment is burghblogs.com. It’s just a placeholder. Now, on to today’s post. ErieBlogs readers = stunned.
Senators McCain and Obama engaged in the second [...]

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If you didn’t register to vote by 8 p.m. yesterday, you’ll have to wait four years to vote for president again.
Tom Ridge and Lynn Swann will hold a rally Wednesday in Perry Square in support of the McCain-Palin ticket. In Pennsylvania, here are the polling numbers: Quinnipiac poll has Obama up in PA by [...]

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Tom Ridge spoke last night at the Republican National Convention (you can read his speech here). The convention concluded with the acceptance speech of John McCain. Congressman Phil English did not attend the convention. 59 days until the general election.
PA lawmakers are again considering charging townships that rely on state police for protection [...]

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John McCain spent yesterday in Erie with Tom Ridge, including a tour of the GE Transportation plant. He held a town-hall meeting and took questions.
During McCain’s tour of the GE plant, he made the following comment as to what he would do in his first 90 days in Washington if he were elected president: “Call [...]

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Lots of stuff going on this weekend: Key West Phest, the St. Paul’s Italian Festival, Footloose at the Erie Playhouse, and so much more. Get out there and have some fun.
Yesterday afternoon, a few funnel clouds were spotted over Lake Erie. Meterologist Ray Petelin has some pictures on his blog.
More news from National Fuel but [...]

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The SeaWolves play at the Jerry Uht baseball park tonight against the Binghamton Mets. Don’t miss out since Mondays are buck night, as in $1 will get you into a great baseball game concession specials on Smith’s Hot Dogs, draft beer, Pepsi soft drinks and popcorn. Ticket prices begin at $3. The [...]

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31-year-old Derrick L. Oliver was arrested Friday and arraigned Sunday on open murder, criminal sexual conduct and theft charges in the death of Erie native Lindsay Graygo. Oliver had lived in the same building as Graygo. He voluntarily supplied DNA evidence that matched evidence found at the scene. He will remain in jail until a [...]

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Scores of people in the Erie area have called off work with symptoms of the flu and other illnesses. Most will head to Presque Isle State Park for ‘treatment.’ The forcast for today is sunny with a high temperature approaching the record of 95 degrees.
The Community Blood Bank is air conditioned and can take some [...]

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One person died in their home last night of an apparent natural gas leak or by carbon monoxide poisoning. The home is on Page Street in SE Erie. An official from the Erie County Coroners Office was called to scene as crews from National Fuel worked to repair the leak. Natural gas does not have [...]

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The Erie Graffiti Task Force continues to mount a crack down on vandalism. District Magistrate Judge Tom Carney, head of the group, is jumping in front of every TV camera and telling every reporter around town about the problem. Yesterday, the case of Daniel Montano of Pittsburgh was spotlighted. Montano faces life in prison and [...]

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Live thoroughbred racing returns to the Erie, PA, today Friday, May 9, when Presque Isle Downs and Casino commences its 2008 meeting. Presque Isle’s 100-day season will extend through September 27, with a daily post time of 5:30 pm. Admission and general parking throughout the meet will be FREE.
Last year, Presque Isle’s inaugural meet was [...]

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Erie Indemnity Company (Erie Insurance) (Nasdaq: ERIE) announced financial results for the first quarter 2008. Net income per share-diluted decreased to $0.51 per share, compared to $0.88 per share in the comparable quarter in 2007 influenced by net realized losses on investments of $0.27 per share, after tax. Although they sold more policies and their [...]

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In his first campaign visit to northwest Pennsylvania, Sen. Barack Obama will hold a Town Hall-style meeting at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Friday, April 18, at 10:30 am, in the Junker Center. Doors open at 8:30 am. Young Democrats of America, a Penn State Behrend student organization, is hosting the event. Admission [...]

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Former President Bill Clinton yesterday yesterday spoke to a crowd at Erie East High School. The gym was filled with the crowd estimated at 1,200 to 2,000 people. More than half were students happy for any reason to get out of classes. Clinton is a very good speaker and the length of the talk at [...]

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The dumbest criminal on the face of the Earth is Ronald N Shubert. Shubert robbed the Country Fair at 12th and Parade on Monday. He was arrested when he returned to the store as a customer and a clerk recognized him. Shubert will spend years in jail possibly working on his own “Unfinished Symphony” [...]

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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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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 Realty [...]

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The Erie Housing Authority held a public meeting yesterday on the proposed spending of $1,045,000 to install central air conditioning in over 1,300 public housing units. The authority will vote on their $3.7 million 2008 spending plan at their December 26 meeting. You can view their entire draft plan here.
Their excuse for spending $1,045,000 [...]

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The 5th floor of Erie City Hall should love hearing this one. An elected member of Erie City Council emailed me and pointed out with the low voter turnout in last Tuesday’s election, the number of signatures needed to hold a hearing to determine if Erie should be declared a distressed city under Act 47, [...]

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The pissing contest between Erie Council Council and Erie County Sheriff Bob Merski appears to have been resolved when both sides sat down and discussed the matter. Council granted $116,000 to be used for overtime. Sheriff’s deputies don’t work a 9-5 job and council finally saw his point. And with the compromise Merski seems a [...]

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Scott Enterprises has obtained $81 million as they mortgaged 10 properties. They will use $6 million to expand Splash Lagoon Indoor Water Park. I think this will be the third expansion of the park that draws huge numbers of people. In a very smart move they will use $49 million to refi existing debt. A [...]

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If you go to Edinboro, go to class. Faculty will not be striking. The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties announced a tentative agreement has been reached on a new 4 year contract. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education posted the news on their site last last night.
 

I know some strange facts [...]

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Tammy Graves was identified as the woman who died at the John E Horan Garden Apartments. The coroner conducted an autopsy. Results will not be available for some time but it appears to be natural causes. They are still trying to figure out the timeline but it appears her 2 year old son was in [...]

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Harborcreek Township began work on a number of additional improvements at Shades Beach Park. Construction work includes 4 new boat launches, fishing piers, as well as the improved beach
area. On the shores of Lake Erie, Shades Beach is located at 7000 East Lake Road (Route 5) at the intersection of Bartlett Road. Shades Beach [...]

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“One of the most dangerous places in the US is the space between a senator and a TV camera.”
Tom Ridge
Tom Ridge of Erie, the former governor of Pennsylvania and the nations first Secretary of Homeland Security, sure sounded like a candidate for Vice President at a speech he gave to the members of the American [...]

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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 Blood [...]

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Tom Ridge, the nation’s first Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001, and Congressman from Erie from 1983 to 1995, delivered the commencement address Sunday at the University of Pittsburgh and received the honorary Doctor of Public and International Affairs degree from Chancellor Mark A Nordenberg and Provost [...]

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Mayor Joe Sinnott presented his proposal for screwing up the LERTA (Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance) program. The current program expires in the second week of November. It gives a 10 year tax break on new construction and additions. The proposal calls for 5 year tax breaks based on jobs created. Residential breaks would be [...]

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Herman Bowman is sitting in jail and it might be his new home for awhile. Bowman worked at the Erie Wastewater Treatment Facility. He didn’t like the way his boss for treating him and met with someone in the human resources department. Bowman said that if his boss didn’t get off his case he would [...]

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Robin Hecker, the former 10th grade English teacher at Northwestern High School, entered into a plea deal with the DA’s office. She faces a max of 5 years in prison for having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old male student.
Erie County Common Pleas Judge Elizabeth Kelly ruled that Danielle Bimber does not have [...]

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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 of the [...]

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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 negotiated [...]

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Radnor Property Group and Fourth River Development were picked as the development team for the first phase of the downtown Erie redevelopment plan. The area is between Holland and Sassafras Streets, 12th to 14th Streets. Radnor and Fourth River announced (press release) they were looking for a project to do together back in December after [...]

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Presque Isle Downs and Casino opened yesterday to huge crowds. They estimated that 10,000 visited on opening day. I think that number is being very conservative. I think it was closer to 15,000. It seemed that about 60 percent of the cars in the lot had Pennsylvania tags. There were a ton of people from [...]

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Presque Isle Downs slots casino will open on February 28. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced Friday that it will hold a board meeting at
3 pm on Tuesday, February 27, 2007. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the State Museum Auditorium located at the corner of Third and North [...]

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Hall of Famer and Super Bowl XI MVP Fred Biletnikoff announced he has retired as the Oakland Raiders’ wide receivers coach after spending more than three decades as a player and coach for the franchise. Biletnikoff spent the last 18 seasons on the Raiders’ coaching staff, including 10 as receivers coach. As a rookie, he [...]

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A reader sent me details about the GAF Materials Corporation severance package to the Erie based employees. They were offered 3 weeks severance, and if you stay until the end you receive an additional $500. If you’ve been there 20 years or more you receive 4 weeks severance. If your anniversary of working [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio, showing a bit of common sense for once, vetoed a proposed ordinance to take away the arrest powers of the Erie County Sheriff’s Office. The deputies are not a police force but should be able to arrest criminals, otherwise they are just mall security.
 
 
Railpower Technologies (TSX: P) announced that it [...]

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Carpet bombing of the city wouldn’t have caused as much damage as Erie City Council manged to do yesterday.
Council passed a $59.88 million budget for the City of Erie for 2007. Council did zero work to cut any costs. The budget proposed by the mayor was just rubber stamped by council. This could be due [...]

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Dave Eggers’s latest book “What Is the What” in Number 25 on the New York Times’ extended best seller list this week. Today it’s number 174 on Amazon.com. It’s the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese “Lost Boy” who is attending Allegheny College. It’s not a conventional biography though, it’s a fictionalization of Deng’s [...]

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Erie Firefighters will be getting a sweet Christmas bonus thanks to Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott, Fire Chief Tony Pol and Erie taxpayers. The city will allow firefighters to purchase circa 1890 Gamewell Fire Alarm Call Boxes for $100 each and pedestal mounted Gamewell’s for $200, a fraction of their worth. Unless the glut of boexes [...]

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Presque Isle Downs will open on February 15, 2007. At lest that’s the tenative date they announced. They’re still at the mercy of construction workers and the weather. The slots-only casino is located at the intersection of I-90 and Route 97 (Exit 27).
 
The Inner-City Neighborhood Art House in Erie was the subject of a feature [...]

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Douglas A Spadey, a Edinboro freshman from Philly, was arrested for sending racial and threatening emails to fellow black Edinboro students. Hours before he was led away in handcuffs, he was saying he was one of the victims of the emails. About 20 students received emails with the N-bomb and threats that some would be [...]

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If you can read, thank your parents. If you can read this in English, thank a Veteran.
The Erie Bayfront Convention Center is now booking events for the Summer of 2007 and beyond. Rooms for weddings, banquets, meeetings, exhibits and classes range from space for 52 to 1920 people with theater style seating for up to [...]

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Erie received it’s first sizable snow storm. The city and the airport, where the official totals are measured, got about 3 inches. There was about 9 inches near the Millcreek Mall and a foot was connon in other places. I think I heard the phrase “This sucks” over 100 times yesterday. O course people don’t [...]

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The estate of Brittany Legler is suing the Erie County Office of Children and Youth alleging that actions and inactions by the agency contributed to her death. They’ve got a good case. Brittany Legler died from continual beatings by her adoptive mother Lisa Iarussi. Iarussi was sentenced to 7-14 years. It’s the job of the [...]

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I had to laugh yesterday at the news (newspaper story, WJET-TV story) that Erie Convention Center Authority is counter suing Nick Scott over the old convention center plans. Scott owns the big, empty plot on the NE corner of State Street and the Bayfront Parkway. The was where the contention center and hotel were originally [...]

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Delta announced they are dropping the Erie to Cincinnati route as of November 1. That sucks. Delta has a large number of connecting flights. A pilot told me this joke – What’s Delta stand for? Don’t Ever Leave The Airport.
Nice story in the Erie newspaper about the BrewErie at Union Station not receiving their liquor [...]

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Erie native Eric Michael Hopper, now living in Buford GA, will make his TV debut this morning on CBS’s “The Early Show.” Hopper won “The Early Show’s Living Room Live” talent competition. He will perform “I Want to Be.” His songs recently hit the 1 millionth play on MySpace.
US Rep Phil English of Erie has [...]

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In March, Affinia announced the company will close its Erie and North East PA plants before the end of 2006. The workers thought they would be getting their pink slips over the weekend but instead were told they could keep their jobs for another 45 days. That’s good news to some but bad news for [...]

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Jack Young of Warren PA might soon be getting a check for over $400,000 – the reward money for the capture of Ralph “Bucky” Phillips. He’s the story Dan Wells of WJET-TV reported yesterday. Young and his wife were of the balcony of the apartment around midnight Thursday night/ Friday morning when they noticed someone [...]

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Erie County Council, the elected group who spend money less responsibly than a crack whore with a welfare check, approved four new positions for the new $14 million 911 dispatch center and public safety suburban campus. The center and operations are paid out of your pocket with a monthly $1.25 tax added on to [...]

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Ralph “Bucky” Phillips is still on the loose. Phillips was convicted of burglary and drug charges. He broke out of jail in April and has had the help of the fine, outstanding citizens of Western NY in staying one step ahead of law enforecement since then. Phillips is the main suspect in the shootings of [...]

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Today is the deadline for Invest Erie Community Development Corporation to come up with the financing for the grocery store plaza at 19th and Parade Streets. They’ve been working on it for 4 years and have only spent a ton of grant money so far. They do have some funding in place but not nearly [...]

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The Erie School Board passed a no tax hike budget. Wow. Maybe the directors are finally learning. The high school taxes have chased families to the suburbs and have kept down property values. Up to 60 staff and teachers could be let go due to budget cuts. The district is teaching fewer kids with the [...]

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Anne Majerik of Erie PA was awarded $2.1 million by a jury in LA. Majerik paid $125,000 to Beverly Hills matchmaker Orly Hadida, said she was promised time with “a cultured gentleman” and his “estate of up to $20 million.” She said all she got were a few introductions to some inappropriate men. Majerik, 60, [...]

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Three year old Abby Murray of Niagara Falls, Ontario was born without a lower right arm and hand. Abby has gone to Green Prosthetics in Erie, Pa for her prosthetic arm since she was a baby. The last time she went for a new prosthetic, she asked for a arm so she could go fishing. [...]

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The Tom Ridge Environmental Center (TREC) opens on Friday. This is a MUST SEE. Admission is free.
They held a sneak preview for the media on Thursday. Yes, kids bloggers are part of the media as I was invited to attend thanks to Emily McCullor and Lisa Anderson-Titcombe of the Presque Isle Partnership.
The building is a [...]

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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 Gaither [...]

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Life Line choose Jackson Township, Ohio over Erie, Pa for their new call center. Nice job by the Erie politicians and the 25 Erie area economic development agencies that have failed again. Life Line Screening, a Cleveland-based provider of preventive health screenings across the country will hire 120 employees with a starting pay of $10 [...]

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Erie East High School grad Goran Rahim is now a published author. His book of poems is titled “A Faded Love“.
Rahim was was born just miles outside the Kurdish city of Kirkuk, Iraq. He was 5 when Saddam Hussein began killing ethnic Kurds. His family fled to Pakistan. At age 16 his family resettled in [...]

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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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The Presque Isle Downs website is now live. Not bad for a businesss that is little more than 270 acres of mud. The restaurant will be called La Bonne Vie (the good life) Steakhouse.
Presque Isle Downs is progressing with the land development work and construction of the Erie racino. The Company still expects to initiate [...]

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Orson Welles cause near paic with a radio broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ in 1938 when people thought it was a real alien invasion. The Northwestern Pennsylvania Emergency Response Group 2 terorism drill yesterday in Franklin was halted when a citizen called 911 in Erie to report a bombing. It resumed later when it [...]

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Nick Scott is quoted in todays Cleveland Plain Dealer saying that plans are in the works for another expansion of Splash Lagoon Indoor Water Park in Erie. Why? To keep the large crowds coming back they want to keep the place fresh. Just last year two new slides, another hot tub, another restaurant and more [...]

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When Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio speaks you don’t know if he’ll telling a joke or announcing one of his off the wall plans. DiVecchio want to build a courthouse for county offices in SW Erie County in what is being described as a branch campus. He didn’t explain where the money will come [...]

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The Koehler Brewery building’s 155-foot smokestack fell at 11:15 am Thursday morning. This photograph was taken from Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy’s promenade. Photo courtesy Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy.
It’s taken nearly 20 years in the planning but they finally had the groundbreaking for the Dementia and Alzheimer’s Unit at the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home in [...]

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Here is the complete press release by Steris of the company closing down the Erie manufacturing operations. It sucks that 450 families are affected. The company cited the high cost of doing business in Erie. Steris has over 5,000 employees in 17 states and in Canada, Australia, Finland, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. The cost of [...]

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The loud flushing sound heard in Erie PA on Thursday was a campaign going down the toilet. Gubernatorial candidate Bill Scranton made a campaign stop in Erie and made national news firing his campaign manager James Seif for making racial remarks about Lynn Swann. Seif appeared late Wednesday on a television call-in show about the [...]

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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 of [...]

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Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott and Erie City Council sat down and listened to a couple of money saving suggestions the consulting firm of Resource Development and Management. The scheduling of Erie Firefighters was one concern. Currently firefighters work one 24 hour shift and then have 3 days off. Changing that to working 24 hours and [...]

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Current Erie City Councilman and Mayor-elect Joe Sinnott met with union represenative asking that their members pay 10 to 15 percent of their health care costs. After the laughter died down, they agreed to ask their members to vote on the measure. There might have been a chance of the unions agreeing to it if [...]

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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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Someone jammed the Coinstar machine at the West 26th Street Tops Market with a number of old coins. The Coinstar can take a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar and a Sacagawea dollar coin. It’s not designed to take a 1890’s Morgan Silver Dollar worth about $500. Outside the grocery store police recoved a backpack [...]

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It’s election day. Vote.
The county announced that that the public saftey building housing the Erie County Hazardous Materials Response Team and the Erie County 911 Center will be built on property located on the former Hammermill/ IP plant property.
Steelers fans and Browns fans can go head to head this week to compete for a 4 [...]

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GE Infrastructure Rail said yesterday that it received a contract worth more than $450 million to supply 300 locomotives to the Chinese Ministry of Railways. Most of the locomotive kits, which include engines, alternators, motors and other machinery, will be manufactured at the Erie GE plant. Last year, China awarded over $300 million in contracts [...]

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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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WHEMCO has purchased Johnstown Corp, a manufacturer of steel products. WHEMCO owns Erie Forge and Steel. WHEMCO is a division of Cleveland-based Park Corp, which acquired the company in 1983.
The franchisee for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts in Western Pennsylvania is restructuring. The new plan by Metz and Associates includes seeking new locations to develop smaller, more [...]

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Yesterday WICU did a story they called Mystery Tombstone. A couple of kids playing found a tombstone. The names Stella and Genevie Mandarin and 1929 were inscribed on the stone. Instead of over-sensationalizing the story they could have spent two minutes finding the answer. They could have called the library or easier yet just fricking [...]

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It’s official. VanEnkevort Tug and Barge was awarded the Erie PA shipyard. VanEnkevort will be leasing the 240,000 square foot dry dock and manufacturing facility at an annual cost of around $500,000. They were awarded the shipyard Friday. Their lease will begin October 1 and they’ve promised 200 jobs within 12 months.
America’s Most Wanted tonight [...]

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The Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League will get their final tune-up for the 2005-2006 Regular Season this weekend when they host a four-team pre-season tournament at the Tullio Arena. The Plymouth Whalers, Saginaw Spirit and Toronto St. Michael’s Majors arrive in town to take part in the tourney which begins at 5 pm. [...]

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Northwestern Pennsylvania experienced another small plane crash, the thrid of the month. A Cessna crashed on approach of the Corry-Lawrence Municipal Airport just before 4 pm. A man from Erie died in the crash. The pilot and a teenage girl survived. I was in Corry about 90 minutes after the crash and everyone in town [...]

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