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Erie police charged a 62-year-old Erie male for assaulting an Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority bus driver on July 1.
The EMTA bus driver was assaulted by a passenger after the passenger became irate over EMTA’s federally-imposed mask mandate, which is in effect despite the relaxation of other COVID-19-related restrictions nationwide.
The man, who is unnamed, was charged with two counts of simple assault, one count of harassment, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.
Jeremy Peterson, EMTA’s executive director, said the male driver, who is in his 50s, suffered minor injuries when he was struck in the face at least twice during the assault. The bus diver, whom Peterson did not identify, was released after treatment at Saint Vincent Hospital.
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Memories came flooding back to Tricia Mahoney on Thursday as she sat quietly inside St. Mary s Chapel on the North East campus of Mercyhurst University.
Mahoney, 59, of North East, grew up in the church. Her parents were married there. Their funerals were held there, too. Her father coached the St. Mary s boys basketball team from the 1960s to the 1980s. She couldn t count the number of weddings and baptisms she attended in the iconic chapel that has played such an important role in her life. This place is home, said Mahoney. it is so much more than just a building.
BY VALERIE MYERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 6, 2021
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Gus Picardo and his wife, Mary Picardo, pose for a photo in their backyard greenhouse, March 19. The couple got ahead on their gardening because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Jack Hanrahan/Erie Times-News via AP)
Moms Are Special
Gus and Mary Picardo have been eating their own homegrown lettuce since February.
By mid-March, they had tomatoes growing on more than four dozen healthy plants. Their fig trees were bearing fruit while most of the region’s figs were still buried to protect them from the cold. And their perennials and annuals grew stoutly from seed even when temperatures dropped below freezing.