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Meeting agendas for upcoming meetings:
Posted here as soon as available
NE Twp Supervisors meeting 8-17-26
News from elsewhere of local interest:
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Students Seek to AI-Proof Their Careers With Trades Over College
Why a single big buyer stops buying fruit

NE Township Supervisors Schedule Discussion of Data Center Ordinance

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In the agenda for the upcoming meeting of the North East Township Supervisors, Monday, August 17th at 9AM, there is a single item listed under new business, “Discuss Proposed Data Center Ordinance.” Erie County put together a proposed draft ordinance to be used in those cases where the individual municipalities do not have one of […]

North East PA Online Upgrades in Progress – UPDATE – Upgrades Complete

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In the coming days, this website may be offline intermittently. I’m down in the engine room updating some things. If you stop by and the site isn’t working quite right, don’t worry, everything will be back before long. It’s like those signs you’ve seen at construction sites, “Temporary inconvenience, permanent improvement.” UPDATE: Updates went very […]

PA U.S. Rep Thompson Introduces Young Farmer Success Act

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Pennsylvania U.S. Representative Glenn Thompson introduced in Congress the Young Farmer Success Act. The bill would make young farmers and ranchers eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. “In recent years, the average age of the American farmer has steadily increased, making it imperative to support the next generation in order to secure our […]

NE Borough Council Approves Ordinance and Elects New Marina Authority Members

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At Monday’s meeting, NE Borough Council voted unanimously to approve Ordinance 944, regulating the demolition of historic structures. Council also voted for two new members to join the marina authority board. Only one position had been open due to the resignation of Dan Adamus, however, at the start of the meeting, board member Micheal Dunlavey […]

NE Marina Event Schedule for Walleyes and Wailing Guitars Fishing Tournament

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From the event organizers: Rescheduled: Keep in mind that this is not only a fishing tournament, there are several other activities like kids fishing as well as music planned throughout the day so the decision was not just directed toward the fishing tournament, but rather the event as a whole. The safety of everyone involved […]

Canadian Smoke Over Freeport Beach

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The image above shows our beach at Freeport on a nice sunny day. The image below shows the same beach with smoke, courtesy of our neighbors to the north. In the USA, when wildfires occur, there is a massive response, fire fighters, smoke jumpers get close, large aircraft dumping water on the fire and organized […]

Senator McCormick Promotes PA Industry at Defense Innovation Summit

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The Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit is currently underway in Carlisle, PA, with hundreds of companies, executives and investors. The summit is there to show how PA companies, with their technology and innovation can lead the charge in helping the President’s Peace Through Strength initiative. Senator McCormick, in the video below, gives a brief description […]

Vintage Warplanes Over North East as B-17 and B-25 Fly By

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Two World War 2 bombers have been flying over North East for the past two days and will be doing so again tomorrow. I managed to grab my camera and catch a few quick photos of the B-17 which has passed by my house several times and the B-25 flew by this morning. If you […]