The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, which has an office in Erie, is a building a $23.5 million performing arts center in Midland, PA. Students who attend cyber schools take classes via computer. Midland doesn’t even have a high school of its own. This little tidbit comes from a PittsburghTribune-Review article titled State-funded cyber school draws [...]

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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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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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On Friday, Lindsey Fuhrman of Erie PA will be on the Tyra Banks Show. Watch it or record it. The show airs on WFXP Fox 66 on Friday at 4 pm. Four years ago, Lindsey received a heart transplant. On the show, she’ll meet the family of the girl that saved her life. How do [...]

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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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Members of Erie Police SWAT team got two bank robbers before they entered the National City Bank on East 38th Street in Erie. Someone tipped off police. A dozen officers surround their vehicle in the parking lot and they surrendered without incident. The FBI is charging them today with a laundry list of charges including [...]

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The State Democratic Appropriations Committee commissioned a study of revenue projections to see how much money the state could expect to get in tax revenue from slot machines for the 14 licenses. The Innovation Group, a New Orleans consultanting company, projected that the slot machines in Erie at Presque Isle Downs would generate just a [...]

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Erie County detectives working undercover in a chat room found David Sean Lukes, a Baltimore County Public School employee from Stewartstown PA, trying to solicit sex from a child. The incident happened in October. Lukes is/was the supervisor of magnet programs for the Baltimore County Public Schools. Lukes was charged by York County detectives with [...]

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Christmas shopping season opened yesterday. With nearly every imaginable retail chain store, upper Peach Street is a shopping mecca. The area was busy from 4:30 am onward. With no sales tax on clothing, people from hundreds of miles around come to shop. Buses and cars with license plates from Ontario, New York and Ohio at [...]

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