Erie, PA News, Arts & Entertainment - Erie Reader
WEBTommy in Toon: July 2024. by Tommy Link. View More Comics Articles. Erie Reader is Erie PA's weekly newspaper & features in-depth coverage of news, arts, & entertainment while exploring & discussing issues of our city.
Erie, PA Events Calendar - Erie Reader
WEB2 days ago · Kids/Family. 9/17/2024 from 10 AM to 11 AM. Millcreek Branch Library, 2088 Interchange Rd., Suite 280, Erie, PA 16565. Help your child get ready to read! Our interactive storytimes feature books, music, movement, puppetry, art, and more. All ages welcome! Come join the fun whenever your family's schedule allows.
A New Vision for an Old Bakery - Erie Reader
WEBMar 11, 2020 · Majestic Bakery, located at 1501 Walnut St., has been a fixture in Erie's Little Italy neighborhood for over a century. After a short hiatus in 2019, its ovens were back in operation under new ownership. Food memories are my favorite memories. As a child, our go-to family restaurant was Martucci's Italian Restaurant at 27th and Myrtle.
Erie's Cascade Docks: An Unimaginable Transition
WEBJul 23, 2020 · The Erie company (not Warren's United Oil Refinery) hosted tanker ships at the western Cascade Dock through the early 1960s, pumping crude up the hill and into storage tanks (on the site of today's Niagara Pointe and Bluffs Condominiums). Two views of the Whaleback Meteor show the unloading of oil at the western dock in about 1955.
Gem City Style: Werner Books and Coffee - Erie Reader
WEBJan 15, 2024 · Kyle Churman and Lauren Shoemaker, co-owners of Werner Books and Coffee, spoke with Jessica Hunter about the massive year they've just had: winning multiple Best of Erie categories, being featured in Erie's 40 Under 40, and completing a move, expansion, and addition of a coffee bar to their bookstore.
The Story of the Erie Triangle - Erie Reader
WEBNov 20, 2019 · One surveyor, a young man named George Burges, kept a journal of his journey to Erie with the returning Ellicott (who himself only once mentioned Burges in his journals, noting that he tasked Burges with tracking down lost baggage). They departed Philadelphia in late May. By June, they had reached Franklin.
The Fish and Boat Commission is Cracking Down on Round Gobies
WEBOct 28, 2014 · In a hearing before the Pennsylvania Senate Game and Fisheries committee held yesterday at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, Chuck Murray, a fisheries biologist with the PA Fish and Boat Commission's Lake Erie Research Unit, told Senators Richard Alloway and Sean Wiley that the commission intends to petition the legislature to enact a $150 fine per fish for any round goby found in a bait ...
Local Farmers Markets and Farm Stands in Erie
WEBAug 15, 2023 · T here are few greater pleasures than cutting into a fresh tomato, taking home blueberries at their peak, or biting into a local ear of sweet corn slathered in butter. Though the growing season in Erie is brief, it makes these moments all the more exciting. As August arrives, so does the summer harvest. It is the perfect time to take advantage of all the fresh produce local farmers and ...
Tracing Erie's History of Redlining - Erie Reader
WEBFeb 13, 2019 · Richmond.edu. This 'Residential Security Map' of Erie from 1937 depicts redlining in action. Neighborhoods were color-coded according to the perceived 'quality' of the neighborhood, with green neighborhoods being the most desirable and red neighborhoods characterized as wholly undesirable or …
The True Story of Boe Bladen - Erie Reader
WEBFeb 16, 2023 · The traditional story of Boe Bladen was recounted in the same paragraph in A History of Erie County Pennsylvania as quoted above: "One of the most prosperous colored men who ever lived in the county was Boe Bladen. He was born in Guinea, was brought to America on a slave ship, worked out his freedom, came to Erie and took up a tract of land in ...