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Erie is under a lake effect snow watch until Friday at noon. In other words be prepared for anything the next few days. Congrats to this year’s GenerationE winners.  The award recognizes young professionals who are paving the way for the future of Erie and is presented by the Young Erie Professionals (yep!).This year’s winners [...]

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It’s election day. Vote. Kevin Flowers reported on GoErie.com that the Pennsylvania Ethics Commission is investigating Erie County Maintenance Supervisor Mike Krause for misuse of county assets. Back when this mess first surfaced, someone at the commission that that they were aware of the situation in Erie County BUT that someone had to file an [...]

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There are reports of an explosion at the United Refining Company in Warren, PA. The company operates an oil refinery in Warren that can process 70,000 barrels of oil into gasoline, diesel fuel and other petroleum distillates per day. Any problems at the refinery could mean a spike in gas prices in Northwestern PA. This [...]

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Karma. Former state representative Linda Bebko-Jones and her then chief of staff, Mary Fiolek, were formally charged with forging nominating petitions and submitting the fraudulent forms to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Bebko-Jones and Fiolek are scheduled to surrender next week and appear before Harrisburg Magisterial District Judge Joseph Solomon for preliminary arraignment. According to [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio still hasn’t resigned or been arrested. DiVecchio has been accused of a laundry list of improprieties of misuse of government employees and assets. Workers began moving into the $14 million Erie County Public Safety Building campus. The county will house 911 call center operations, county communications and emergency service operations [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio still hasn’t resigned or been arrested. DiVecchio has been accused of a laundry list of improprieties of misuse of government employees and assets. He will sit down on Friday with Erie County Controller Sue Weber to try and explain away the charges. Erie County Council members have no plans to [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio still hasn’t resigned or been arrested. Improprieties about the misuse by DiVecchio of county employees, equipment and materials continue to mount. Clueless, arrogant DiVecchio still doesn’t realize what he did was wrong. DiVecchio used county employees on county time with county equipment to plow his home driveway. Other instances of [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio using county employees on county time as his own personal labor force was the topic all weekend. DiVecchio, one more than one occasion, used a county employee on county time with a county vehicle to have his home driveway plowed. He also used county employees on county time for his [...]

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The State Ethics Commission is aware of Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio having an Erie County employee using Erie County equipment being told to plow his driveway. They are also aware of DiVecchio using county employees to help his sister move and also using county employees to help set up a booth at Celebrate Erie [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio wants a new office on the fifth floor of the courthouse. He might not have to wait for the $3 million renovation and the removal of the jail cells of the old pre-release center. An investigation by Erie County Controller Sue Weber uncovered the following alleged acts: * Erie County [...]

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Erie International Airport Executive Director Kelly Fredericks has resigned. Fredericks offered to resign for a $100,000 buyout of his contract. He signed a 5 year contract in June of 2006. He was being paid about $164,000 a year. Chris Rodgers, Director of Strategic Development at the airport, will take over as interim director. He will [...]

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Unless you have suicidal tendencies, PLEASE stay off the ice dunes at Presque Isle State Park. You could easily step through and drown in freezing cold water. The moderate blood shortage in our area turned critical for type O suddenly with extraordinarily heavy blood use by local patients over the past few days. There has [...]

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Megan and Craig Sundberg recently found out their young 3 year old son Jack has an inoperable brain tumor. Jack has Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), also known as grade 4 astrocytoma, which is the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumor, accounting for 52 percent of all primary brain tumor cases and 20 percent [...]

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eBizITPA and the Economic Research Institute of Erie (ERIE) released a study EVERYONE in Northwest Pennsylvania needs to read and take to heart. Erie workers are behind most the nation, and even most areas in Pennsylvania, and to catch up we have to embrace technology. The press release: If a region wants to become more [...]

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It was a might bit cold yesterday in Erie. The high temp was 16 degrees and the low was 10. The area didn’t get much snow but what there was blew around like crazy with strong winds. In case you were wondering the coldest part of Winter in Erie is Jan 23 to Feb 3 [...]

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Just because the posted speed limit is 65 mph, doesn’t mean you HAVE to go 65, especially when it’s snowing and the wind is howling. I-90 was shut down for hours between Harborcreek and Wesleyville due to accidents. As soon as that was reopened around 3 pm, I-79 was closed between McKean and Edinboro. It [...]

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Family First Sports Park is now home to a co-ed boarding school called Family First Academy. Family First Academy has grades 8-12. Students attend classes at Erie First Christian Academy. The total enrollment is 245 students. The cost for boarding students is $26,000 at year while day students pay $3,300. GE (NYSE: GE) reported earnings. [...]

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GECAC, the Greater Erie Community Action Committee, is closing down their Drug and Alcohol Services division resulting in the layoffs of 23 people. In days past, GECAC was given money based on the number of people enrolled in their programs. The state, trying to hold agencies more accountable for the huge checks they receive, changed [...]

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The management and public relations fiasco at the State Correctional Institution at Albion about the escape of Malcolm Kysor continues to get worse. Kysor, serving a life sentence for murder, is still on the loose. Charles Robertson called everyone (except me) about the, as he called it and I agree, incompetence at the prison. Robertson [...]

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Erie City Council held their biweekly meeting last evening. They might have well just stayed home because they got nothing accomplished. They are expected to make decisions. They can’t grasp the concept. Organized activity to accomplish an objective: Action. Learn it. Live it. They afraid about making decisions? Cripe, they re-elected anyway. Item 1: The [...]

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Contract ratification votes were held for two unions representing Erie County workers. The AFSCME union for clerical and technical employees accepted their contract. The AFSCME union for ‘professional’ employees reject their offer and authorized a strike. Both contract offers offered 3 percent raises for the first 3 years plus a $1 and 3.2 percent raise [...]

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Unless you want to pay $25 to read “Carbon nanotube-enhanced thermal destruction of cancer cells in a noninvasive radiofrequency field” that was published online on Oct 24, wait till the December issue of Cancer in sitting on a table in a doctors waiting room. Here’s the basic info from the article. This is the first [...]

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Way to go Phil! Ensuring public dollars support American families not an addiction is the goal of legislation recently introduced by U S Rep Phil English (R-Pa). HR 3656 would require states to administer drug tests for welfare recipients if the state has substantial evidence that an individual welfare beneficiary is abusing controlled substances. “My [...]

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Erie Central Tech High School has been declared a “dropout factory” by researchers at Johns Hopkins University as less than 60 percent of their incoming freshmen make it to graduation. That’s less than 6 in 10 for those of you that are dropouts. Erie School District Superintendent James Barker had his contract extended for 5 [...]

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  Ethan Fuhrman’s Cider Mill and Bakery on East Gore Rd in Belle Valley burned down to the ground. The 111 year old company is (was?) best known for their apple cider. They also produced Concord grape juice, apple-grape, cherry flavored cider, and hot mulled-cider. Their “from scratch” bakery had soft German pretzels, cookies and [...]

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MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a contagious infection that is resistant to many antibiotics. Pennsylvania doesn’t even require health care centers to disclose the number of patients that have MRSA. About 30 percent of Americans have staph bacteria living on them, including about 1 percent with MRSA, but they have no infection symptoms. MRSA has [...]

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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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  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 [...]

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A symposium on the John Kanzius cancer treatment was held yesterday at Mercyhurst College. The place was packed yet you could have heard a pin drop. People in attendance soaked in every word. Dr Steven Curley of M D Anderson Cancer Center and Kanzius spoke. Since Kanzius came up with the treatment, every bit of [...]

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