Erie Times-News (Erie, PA) articles from July 2007

Erie Times-News (Erie, PA) archives from July 2007

Erie Times-News, Pa., business buzz column.(Column)
July 1, 2007

Conneaut Lake campers have summer of discontent.
July 1, 2007

High-stakes education.
July 1, 2007

Traveling tourism.
July 1, 2007

Walgreens waits for Meadville go-ahead.
July 2, 2007

Right on the money.
July 3, 2007

English's bill would ease city borrowing.
July 3, 2007

Faculty, schools reach pact.
July 3, 2007

Erie Times-News, Pa., Jim Martin Column.(Column)
July 3, 2007

No rain means worries crop up.
July 3, 2007

Firm hired to handle county's behavioral health services.
July 4, 2007

Crawford County's biofuel plan on hold.
July 4, 2007

State layoffs near.
July 4, 2007

Erie, others want slots share.
July 5, 2007

Best selling author coming home for book signing.
July 6, 2007

No budget progress.
July 6, 2007

GE train orders keep rolling in.
July 6, 2007

Gaps in coverage.
July 6, 2007

Mustang makeover.
July 6, 2007

Prep project hits snag.
July 6, 2007

Erie Times-News, Pa., business buzz column.(Column)
July 8, 2007

Charter school faces sanctions if scores don't improve.
July 8, 2007

Mom-and-pop motels: Quirky, with conversation.
July 8, 2007

Park owners' dedication keeps facility going.
July 8, 2007

Building spurt boosts suburb.
July 8, 2007

FIRST PERSON: Rubber capital has plenty to do for any budget.
July 8, 2007

Steep fees for some in Summit.
July 9, 2007

City council meeting to focus on zoning.
July 9, 2007

Outrage, irritation over closing of state parks in budget impasse.
July 10, 2007

More protest Cathedral Preparatory School zoning change.
July 10, 2007

Blair Corp. to add 500 jobs in region.
July 11, 2007

Any way you slice it ...
July 11, 2007

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania's Shafer Hall slated for demolition.
July 11, 2007

Prep school athletic complex plan irks company located nearby.
July 11, 2007

Erie visitors glad budget stalemate ended fast.
July 11, 2007

Senate panel says yes to sand at Presque Isle State Park.
July 12, 2007

Delta drops Erie; Atlanta flights to end in September.
July 12, 2007

New hotel planned for Summit site.
July 12, 2007

Prep complex spurs vocal debate.
July 12, 2007

Former treasurer faces trial.
July 12, 2007

Carved tribute: Carousel horse work of art.
July 13, 2007

Mexico looms for Steris.
July 13, 2007

Dressed down.
July 13, 2007

Prep plan seems to have votes.
July 13, 2007

Works of art.
July 13, 2007

Erie GE profits climb.(Financial report)
July 14, 2007... Byline: Jim Martin Jul. 14--Big ships are tough to steer, and it takes a lot to move them. Maybe that's why Frank Fusco, president of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Local 506 at GE Transportation, won't claim...

Plans for Erie Land Lighthouse in works.
July 14, 2007... Byline: George Miller Jul. 14--The Erie Land Lighthouse may be shining its light in a new direction, at least figuratively, and local officials want neighborhood comment. The Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority is putting together...

Traffic flow just so-so?
July 14, 2007... Byline: Jim Carroll Jul. 14--State highway officials like West 12th Street's new look. Drivers might not be so sure. "It looks good," said William Petit, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation district executive, after watching...

Some rides at park could be on way out.
July 15, 2007... Byline: Tim Hahn Jul. 15--CONNEAUT LAKE -- Conneaut Lake Park's new board of directors might find themselves dealing with more bare patches of pavement when the time comes to consider the future of the amusement park portion of the...

Downtown bonanza shop owners.
July 15, 2007... Byline: Tim Hahn Jul. 15--MEADVILLE -- Paul and Viki Allin said they took a risk when they moved from the cramped confines of a Meadville Market House stall into a 2,700-square-foot Chestnut Street store front. But the move earlier...

Customers have a hand in choosing their fresh fruits, vegetables.
July 15, 2007... Byline: Kara Rhodes Jul. 15--Travel over a one-lane wooden bridge and down a yellow dirt road that slices its way through rows of peach trees plump with fuzzy, unripe fruit and vines heavy with still-green grapes. Just past there is...

Political storm closed beaches.
July 15, 2007... Byline: John Guerriero Jul. 15--Lock Pennsylvania's legislative leaders and Gov. Ed Rendell behind closed doors to work out a budget and citizens might yawn. But lock citizens out of Presque Isle State Park and their other favorite...

Erie School District learns to use law's loophole.
July 15, 2007... Byline: Erica Erwin Jul. 15--Nearly 500 Erie School District students were withdrawn from their schools last year and enrolled in two programs that several school board members say are designed to manipulate test scores. Like most of...

State says district within law.
July 15, 2007... Byline: Erica Erwin Jul. 15--Erie School Board members might not be the only ones who have questioned two Erie School District programs designed to help struggling students. The Pennsylvania Department of Education received an...

Work should flow.
July 15, 2007... Byline: Jim Carroll Jul. 15--EDINBORO -- Washington Township and Edinboro have always been neighbors. Now they are partners as well. The communities have become joined by a sewage treatment system. And it is that partnership now...

Future rides on hope.
July 15, 2007... Byline: Tim Hahn Jul. 15--CONNEAUT LAKE -- Business is down a bit this year, but Nadine Morgan said she's thankful that it isn't down as much as she thought it would be after her next-door neighbor stopped welcoming visitors. But...

Summer turbulence.
July 17, 2007... Byline: Jim Carroll Jul. 17--When Deanna Dunbar paid for an airline ticket to visit family in Erie, she didn't know she was also buying two days of frustration. But in a summer marked by crowded planes, delayed flights, cancellations...

$27.2B budget finally passes.
July 17, 2007... Byline: John Guerriero Jul. 17--Now that Pennsylvania has a new budget, you won't have to worry about your favorite state park or museum closing again this fiscal year. After 16 days without one, the Legislature approved a new $27.2...

Passengers ask why Philly is so bad.
July 17, 2007... Byline: Jim Carroll Jul. 17--When Erie air travelers swap horror stories, the scene is often set in Philadelphia. Flight delays, cancellations and lost luggage are on the increase at airports across the nation, but Philadelphia...

Sewage plant's lake pipe gone.
July 17, 2007... Byline: Jim Carroll Jul. 17--EDINBORO -- Swimmers on Edinboro Lake beaches no longer have to worry about how well Washington Township's sewage treatment plant is working. The township has removed its treatment plant's outflow pipe...

Council balks at approving sign for adult store.
July 17, 2007... Byline: George Miller Jul. 17--Some Erie City Council members are blinking over a proposed purple and orange sign for an adult store at 1313 State St. Heidi Corp., owner of Eastern Books Inc., has asked council for an easement to...

Conneaut Lake Park may open in August.
July 18, 2007... Byline: Tim Hahn Jul. 18--CONNEAUT LAKE -- The summer season might not be a complete loss for the people who love and depend on Conneaut Lake Park. The 15-member board of directors charged with overseeing the 115-year-old resort and...

Healthy growth.
July 18, 2007... Byline: David Bruce Jul. 18--The old Bianchi Honda dealership is gone. So are the Kwik Fill gas station and Millcreek Professional Building. The land just north of Millcreek Community Hospital at West 54th and Peach streets in...

Erie plastics plant driven to close.
July 18, 2007... Byline: Jim Martin Jul. 18--Another of Erie's established manufacturers is set to fall at a cost of nearly 150 jobs. OEM/Erie, a plastics injection molder that specializes in parts for the automotive industry, is expected to close its...

Council approves prison repairs.
July 18, 2007... Byline: Kevin Flowers Jul. 18--The Erie County Prison's kitchen is getting a $107,401 makeover. Erie County Council on Tuesday night approved an ordinance earmarking that amount for repairs at the prison, located at East 18th and Ash...

On guard.
July 19, 2007... Byline: David Bruce Jul. 19--Mike Kuneman's lifeguarding career ends in two weeks. Kuneman, 28, has guarded Presque Isle State Park beaches for 11 summers, making sure tourists and locals are safe when they swim in Lake Erie. ...

Fate of GAF site still unknown.
July 19, 2007... Byline: George Miller Jul. 19--More than three months have passed since GAF Materials Corp. closed its doors. While the shutdown left a void in Erie's manufacturing base, it also raised questions about what would happen to one of the...

Group says plant idea stinks.
July 19, 2007... Byline: Jim Carroll Jul. 19--Katherine Beaver can see the smokestacks at the former International Paper Co. plant from her backyard. She said she knows how important smokestack industries have been to Erie in the past -- after all, her...

Sand replenishment to close beaches.
July 20, 2007... Byline: David Bruce Jul. 20--Presque Isle State Park will close some of its beaches in August to replenish them with sand. The park usually replenishes its sand in the spring. The program was delayed in 2007 after the federal...

13 faculty leave Behrend.
July 20, 2007... Byline: Erica Erwin Jul. 20--There will be plenty of new faces on campus when classes resume at Penn State Behrend, and all of them won't belong to the freshman class. Thirteen faculty members in Behrend's School of Humanities and...

First time in new digs.
July 20, 2007... Byline: Kevin Flowers Jul. 20--Thursday's meeting agenda was fairly routine. But the venue was hardly customary -- which sparked some excitement among officials of the Erie County Convention Center Authority. For the first time,...

Crawford officials discuss 2nd tire-recycling program.
July 20, 2007... Byline: Tim Hahn Jul. 20--MEADVILLE -- A group of local governments spent 38 cents per tire to keep 1,633 of them out of a landfill. Members of the French Creek Council of Governments on Thursday studied the results of their first...

Night & day.
July 20, 2007... Byline: Robb Frederick Jul. 20--Jerry Lee is in the dream. He's killing, of course: hammering at the piano, slamming it, standing, pants afire, his body shot with electricity, his hair flopping like a bar fight. Goodness,...

Work starts on airport project.
July 21, 2007... Byline: Tim Hahn Jul. 21--MEADVILLE -- Sharon Daboin buried a golden shovel head into the stiff, brownish grass of a place she considers a nonrenewable resource. The resource, Port Meadville Airport, is something Crawford County will...

E. coli closes beach.
July 21, 2007... Byline: David Bruce Jul. 21--Presque Isle State Park's new swimming advisory system was designed to keep people in the water. Someone didn't tell the bacteria. Park officials banned swimming at Beach 1 West Extension on Friday...

Mead Avenue bridge project gets federal support.
July 21, 2007... Byline: Tim Hahn Jul. 21--MEADVILLE -- The federal government has apparently been sold on the importance of keeping the Mead Avenue bridge in business. Federal transportation officials have decided that the need exists for keeping the...

Gov. Rendell gives Koehler Brewery Square project more time.
July 21, 2007... Byline: Kevin Flowers Jul. 21--Gov. Ed Rendell is giving developers of the long-stalled Koehler Brewery Square project more time to submit a revised business plan to his office. Koehler spokesman John Knox II said developers asked...

Golf Club dispute heads to Commonwealth Court.
July 21, 2007... Byline: John Guerriero Jul. 21--Commonwealth Court will get a swing at the controversy over the Erie Golf Club's future. The city of Erie appealed a judge's ruling that the club must remain a golf course or change to a public park. ...

Magic & mania for final Rowling book in Harry Potter series.
July 21, 2007... Byline: Cornell Green Jul. 21--Heather May Caspar usually doesn't come to work wearing a bright-pink feather boa around her waist and a bathing suit over her clothes, with white sandals and plaid socks. But Friday was no ordinary day...

Liberty Iron and Metal Co., German company Scholz Group to merge.
July 21, 2007... Byline: Jim Martin Jul. 21--Erie-based Liberty Iron and Metal Co. has forged a new partnership with one of the largest privately held scrap yards in Europe. Liberty, a 75-year-old company at 1515 East Ave., announced Friday it has...

This news is the bee's knees.
July 23, 2007... Byline: Jim Martin Jul. 23--LINESVILLE -- Cell phone frequencies might not be to blame for sending honey bees off course, after all. But something caused the bees to lose their way. And the race to explain the loss of thousands of bee...

Dam soil problem topic of meeting.
July 23, 2007... Byline: Tim Hahn Jul. 23--TITUSVILLE -- Long-discussed plans for alleviating flooding along Church Run could be in line for another revision. City officials have scheduled a public meeting for 5:30 p.m. on July 30 so that...

Dickson Tavern items to be sold.
July 23, 2007... Byline: George Miller Jul. 23--Antique chairs. Antique clocks. Even pieces of wood said to be from the U.S. Brig Niagara. Those are just some of the hundreds of items from the Dickson Tavern that will be auctioned at 10 a.m. Aug. 11 at...

Organizers gear up for car show at airport.
July 24, 2007