Yes, it actually was the first day of spring yesterday. There were several accidents around the area yesterday morning, and 90 was closed for a few hours. By the end of the day it was sunny, but chilly. Local bloggers Toni Kelly and Michele have launched a new site, Presque Isle Naturally, that will focus [...]

Read the full post

Commenter Linda left a very interesting comment yesterday about her experience with Tuesday’s manhunt on W. 25th street. I came into work around 8:30 AM yesterday morning in the building that houses the Whole Foods Cooperative on 26th & Brown’s Avenue & locked the door behind me. The street was not blocked off but there [...]

Read the full post

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 [...]

Read the full post

Opening statements were held yesterday in the trial of former Erie mayor Rick Filippi. A trial so fun you’d want to bring popcorn with you to watch it. On the surfact it doesn’t look like Filippi committed a crime. It was just stupid and showed poor judgement. In 2001, MTR Gaming already had plans for [...]

Read the full post

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 [...]

Read the full post

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 [...]

Read the full post

The election results for Erie County Executive between Republican Dale McBrier and Democratic Mark DiVecchio was the subject of an emergency hearing on Saturday morning. The unofficial count has McBrier up by 6 votes. Two items prompted the action. First, in a TV interview, workers at the elction office said they had already deemed 20 [...]

Read the full post