The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority announced that they’ve been contacted by the US Coast Guard about possibly locating a training facility in Erie. Erie is one of a number of locations considered. The facility would be a designated Center of Excellence (COE) for ship inspections. It would mean about 50 personnel stationed in Erie year [...]

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A theft of nearly a half million dollars has occurred at 19th and Parade. The police have not been notified. Why? Because it was only taxpayer money. In the past few days the sign on the lot announcing that Invest Erie Community Development Corporation was developing the spot for a grocery store has been removed. [...]

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  Lucy Ladd Stratton was a painter from New Hampshire. She spent decades in Europe but called Erie PA her adopted hometown. She and her husband had money and built a library in West Swanzey, NH. She donated some of her paintings to the library. As for her others, when she died in 1937 she [...]

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