The last legal barrier to Pennsylvania businesses lifting their occupancy restrictions came down Monday on the order of Gov. Tom Wolf.
In other words, no more need to space tables, and the building capacity returns to whatever the fire marshal says is appropriate.
But in many Erie-area businesses, change hasn t happened overnight.
On Tuesday morning, upside-down drinking glasses still sat on every other table at Dave s Diner, on North Park Row in downtown Erie. The glasses were left over from more than 14 months of occupancy restrictions.
They won t be there for long, said Lindsay Coccarelli, who manages the restaurant at 26 North Park Row.
An Erie soldier and others killed almost 60 years ago in what s been called one of aviation s greatest mysteries will be remembered during a ceremony in Maine on Saturday.
Staff Sgt. Leslie Salada was among 107 passengers and crew killed when Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 seemingly exploded en route to Vietnam on March 16, 1962. They will be remembered by family members during the unveiling of a monument in their honor in Columbia Falls, Maine.
The monument is on land donated by Wreaths Across America founder Morrill Worchester on the edge of a balsam forest where brush is harvested each year to make wreaths that are placed on veterans graves.
Courtesy Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
Kirk Rudzinski, 63, of Erie, broke a state record with this yellow perch caught in Lake Erie on April 9, 2021.
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An Erie angler caught the heaviest yellow perch on record in the state, according to an announcement Friday by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
Kirk Rudzinski, 63, of Erie, landed the record-breaking perch on April 9 in Lake Erie, Harborcreek Township, Erie County, near the Brevillier Village high-rise.
The yellow perch weighed in at 2.98 pounds, exceeding the current state record by two ounces, according to the commission. The previous state record yellow perch was caught in Presque Isle Bay in 2016.
The first thing to understand about solar power is that sunny days aren t necessary to make energy.
“It’s not sunshine that you need for solar energy, it’s daylight and the sun rises every day,” said John Purvis, owner of Solar Revolution, a solar installation company in Erie. “Obviously, on sunny days the panels generate more energy, but even on a cloudy day, there is UV light and that is all you need.”
So, even if you buy into the “dreary Erie” trope and think solar power would be a risky investment in Erie, Pennsylvania, there are many homeowners who have been converting daylight into electricity for years. And they are happy to show off their electric bill to prove you wrong.
Natasha Freidus, start-up CEO
“I’m American, but my husband, Andrew, has dual citizenship. After living in France for a few years, we moved to Toronto in 2018 with our two kids we were attracted to the booming tech scene, and we refused to move back to the U.S. for several reasons, including Trump. A couple of weeks ago, as the Covid cases in Toronto kept soaring, we started to seriously consider crossing the border to get our vaccines. We were hoping to fly to Seattle this summer to visit family we haven’t seen since 2019, and we wanted to get vaccinated as soon as possible. We figured best-case scenario we would be able to get our first shot here in early May, but everything pointed toward the second shot not being available until at least July or August. We didn’t want to wait.