Lawrence Park Township will remain the home of GE Transportation locomotives. But it won't be the only home.
The company, an Erie mainstay for more than a century, announced Thursday that it plans to build a new $96 million locomotive plant in Fort Worth, Texas.
About $4.3 million in tax incentives and the promise of a lower pay scale may have been two attractions for GE, which has about 4,500 employees in Lawrence Park and another 800 at its engine plant in Grove City.
The company said it expects to hire about 500 people for its new plant.
The local workforce will also grow.
Erie County's largest employer, which has added about 1,000 employees so far this year through a combination of employee recalls and new hires, said it expects to hire an additional 250 workers in Erie.
Thursday's announcement was not completely unexpected.
The company has acknowledged for more than a month that it hoped to add another manufacturing site.....READ MORE
Friday, May 13, 2011
Project Stream Grants available for arts activities
Project Stream Grants available for arts activities
Published: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:37 PM EDT
RIDGWAY – The Elk County Council on the Arts (ECCOTA) in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is pleased to announce the availability of grant funds through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) Project Stream.PPA Project Stream grants for amounts up to $3,000 are available to support arts activities in Cameron, Clarion, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean and Potter counties that take place between Sept. 1, 2011, and August 31, 2012.To learn more about this funding opportunity join ECCOTA at these free informational grant webinars & workshops.Wednesday Webinars will be held on May 11 and May 18 from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Cameron County Chamber of Commerce, located at 34 E. 4th St., Emporium.
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A Saturday Workshop will be held on May 14 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on May 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hamlin Memorial Library, located at 123 S. Mechanic St., Smethport.A Saturday Workshop will also be held on May 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Clarion area at a location to be determined.The workshops will cover the grant cycle, eligibility, restrictions and overall grant writing suggestions. Participants may attend any workshop, regardless of the county in which the individual or organization is located. Attendance of a workshop is not required to apply. Links to the official guidelines and online grant applications are available at www.eccota.com. Organizations or individuals undertaking arts projects in Cameron, Clarion, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean and Potter counties that are interested in applying for grants through the PPA program are encouraged to contact ECCOTA by calling 814-772-7051, emailing mail to ppa@eccota.com or visiting www.eccota.com.
Published: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:37 PM EDT
RIDGWAY – The Elk County Council on the Arts (ECCOTA) in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is pleased to announce the availability of grant funds through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) Project Stream.PPA Project Stream grants for amounts up to $3,000 are available to support arts activities in Cameron, Clarion, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean and Potter counties that take place between Sept. 1, 2011, and August 31, 2012.To learn more about this funding opportunity join ECCOTA at these free informational grant webinars & workshops.Wednesday Webinars will be held on May 11 and May 18 from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Cameron County Chamber of Commerce, located at 34 E. 4th St., Emporium.
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A Saturday Workshop will be held on May 14 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on May 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hamlin Memorial Library, located at 123 S. Mechanic St., Smethport.A Saturday Workshop will also be held on May 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Clarion area at a location to be determined.The workshops will cover the grant cycle, eligibility, restrictions and overall grant writing suggestions. Participants may attend any workshop, regardless of the county in which the individual or organization is located. Attendance of a workshop is not required to apply. Links to the official guidelines and online grant applications are available at www.eccota.com. Organizations or individuals undertaking arts projects in Cameron, Clarion, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean and Potter counties that are interested in applying for grants through the PPA program are encouraged to contact ECCOTA by calling 814-772-7051, emailing mail to ppa@eccota.com or visiting www.eccota.com.
IN LIKE A LYON...Kent State's David Lyon continues to lead his team
IN LIKE A LYON...
Junior catcher David Lyon (Emporium, Pa.) ranks first on the team in triples (5) second in batting average (.322), third in slugging percentage (.533), hits (58) and RBIs (39), fourth in doubles (10) and fifth in on base percentage (.380). He also calls the signals for a pitching staff that is sixth in the nation in team ERA (2.48) and 17th in team strikeouts per nine innings (8.3) as well as for a defense that ranks 22nd in the nation and first in the Mid-American Conference (.976 fielding percentage). Lyon was named MAC East Division Player of the Week after a huge week at the plate last week. He collected 10 hits in four games – including three doubles, a triple and a home run and six RBIs. He was a double shy of hitting for the cycle while totaling a career-high five hits in Kent State's 11-3 win at Ohio last Friday (April 29). He also called the pitching and defensive signals as Kent State limited Cleveland State and Ohio to a combined eight runs in four games -- including a 4-0 shutoutof the Bobcats last Saturday (April 30) in game one of a doubleheader, which was the team's seventh shutout of the season.Lyon has hit safely in 16 of the last 18 games and is hitting .420 with 10 extra-base hits – in cluding four home runs -- and a .710 slugging percentage......READ MORE
Junior catcher David Lyon (Emporium, Pa.) ranks first on the team in triples (5) second in batting average (.322), third in slugging percentage (.533), hits (58) and RBIs (39), fourth in doubles (10) and fifth in on base percentage (.380). He also calls the signals for a pitching staff that is sixth in the nation in team ERA (2.48) and 17th in team strikeouts per nine innings (8.3) as well as for a defense that ranks 22nd in the nation and first in the Mid-American Conference (.976 fielding percentage). Lyon was named MAC East Division Player of the Week after a huge week at the plate last week. He collected 10 hits in four games – including three doubles, a triple and a home run and six RBIs. He was a double shy of hitting for the cycle while totaling a career-high five hits in Kent State's 11-3 win at Ohio last Friday (April 29). He also called the pitching and defensive signals as Kent State limited Cleveland State and Ohio to a combined eight runs in four games -- including a 4-0 shutoutof the Bobcats last Saturday (April 30) in game one of a doubleheader, which was the team's seventh shutout of the season.Lyon has hit safely in 16 of the last 18 games and is hitting .420 with 10 extra-base hits – in cluding four home runs -- and a .710 slugging percentage......READ MORE
16th annual Road Scholars Tour visits GKN
After two nights in Ohio Hall, a residence hall at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, participants in this year's edition of the Road Scholars Tour packed their things and boarded a bus headed back toward central Pennsylvania on May 11. The three-day Road Scholars Tour is an annual event designed to introduce new and newly tenured Penn State faculty members to the University's Commonwealth Campuses and to the breadth and depth of Penn State's impact across Pennsylvania.
The final day of the tour began with a visit to the ......READ MORE
The final day of the tour began with a visit to the ......READ MORE
Workers, retirees rally outside gates of GE Transportation in Lawrence Park
Retirees and union members at GE Transportation vowed Wednesday to stand together during a noon rally outside the company's gates on Water Street.
More than 200 people, many of them members of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, and of the Retirees Association of General Electric, offered a display of unity less than two weeks before union workers at the General Electric Co. are set to begin contract negotiations.
Those negotiations are expected to focus in large part on health care, pension benefits and the possibility of establishing a two-tier pay structure that would provide lower wages to new employees....READ MORE
More than 200 people, many of them members of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, and of the Retirees Association of General Electric, offered a display of unity less than two weeks before union workers at the General Electric Co. are set to begin contract negotiations.
Those negotiations are expected to focus in large part on health care, pension benefits and the possibility of establishing a two-tier pay structure that would provide lower wages to new employees....READ MORE
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
As weather warms, warnings about Lyme
May 9, 2011, 6:37 a.m. EDT
West Chester Daily Local News 1 JRC 20091109
In retrospect, Jennifer Mankoff, now 37, believes she was infected with Lyme disease either during a trip to Ligonier in 2005 or while hiking in Frick Park in the fall of 2006.
She got a rash, one whose cause was never diagnosed, after the Ligonier trip, and she actually picked a tick off her leg after the hike in Frick Park.
Either way, the Shadyside woman, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, got sick later in 2006.
Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria carried by ticks most commonly referred to as deer ticks, although entomologists now identify them as blacklegged ticks. They have been infected as larvae and nymphs, which feed on birds or small mammals. Adult ticks prefer deer. Any stage can feed on humans, potentially passing on the disease. It is the most common tick-borne illness in North America and Europe, and, said Lyme disease researcher Dr. Andrew J. Nowalk of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, it is a "devastating disease for patients who have it."
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According to a county-by-county report from the Department of Health, Cameron County in the north-central part of the state had an incidence rate of 267.0 cases per 100,000 residents in 2006-08. To the west, Elk County had an incidence rate of 171.3, while to the south, Clearfield County's rate was 81.4.
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West Chester Daily Local News 1 JRC 20091109
In retrospect, Jennifer Mankoff, now 37, believes she was infected with Lyme disease either during a trip to Ligonier in 2005 or while hiking in Frick Park in the fall of 2006.
She got a rash, one whose cause was never diagnosed, after the Ligonier trip, and she actually picked a tick off her leg after the hike in Frick Park.
Either way, the Shadyside woman, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, got sick later in 2006.
Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria carried by ticks most commonly referred to as deer ticks, although entomologists now identify them as blacklegged ticks. They have been infected as larvae and nymphs, which feed on birds or small mammals. Adult ticks prefer deer. Any stage can feed on humans, potentially passing on the disease. It is the most common tick-borne illness in North America and Europe, and, said Lyme disease researcher Dr. Andrew J. Nowalk of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, it is a "devastating disease for patients who have it."
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According to a county-by-county report from the Department of Health, Cameron County in the north-central part of the state had an incidence rate of 267.0 cases per 100,000 residents in 2006-08. To the west, Elk County had an incidence rate of 171.3, while to the south, Clearfield County's rate was 81.4.
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Photo of the Day
While out in the woods today, this American Coot was determined to get his photo taken
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