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For 25 years, Cynthia Muhammad has been publisher of the Erie Metropolitan Black Yellow Pages, an advertising publication that promotes Black-owned businesses.
The volume is often too thin to suit her.
It s not the lack of advertising revenue that she laments. Muhammad, 73, said she s troubled by the relatively small number of Black-owned businesses in the Erie area.
In fact, in summer 2020 Erie Arts & Culture and Erie s Black Wall Street joined forces to compile a list of Black-owned businesses.
In a county with about 5,000 businesses that s according to the Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership just 92 of them had at least one Black owner, according to the list.
MEADVILLE – Meadville s three Roman Catholic parishes will merge into a new one, effective June 26.
The Catholic Diocese of Erie announced that St. Agatha, St. Brigid and St. Mary of Grace parishes will form The Epiphany of the Lord Parish. The new parish will be housed at St. Agatha Church, 353 Pine St., Meadville.
St. Brigid, 383 Arch St., and St. Mary of Grace, 1085 Water St., will become secondary churches of the new parish, officials said. Masses will not be celebrated at the two churches on Sundays or for holy days but they will be open occasionally for public or private worship, officials said.
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Erie police detectives investigating the shootings of two teenagers in a westside neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon said a unique-looking van suspected of being used in the crime led them to a teenage suspect who now faces adult charges.
Jerico D. Beason, 16, was arraigned Thursday morning on charges including two felony counts of attempted homicide and four felony counts of aggravated assault in a shooting late Tuesday afternoon in the 1100 block of West 11th Street that wounded a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy.
Erie police charged Beason as an adult under the Fisher Bill, a state law that permits juveniles accused of committing violent crime to be charged as adults.
Mediterranean/Middle Eastern (Habibi, Alkeme, Casablanca, Shish Kabob).
You might argue authenticity from one place to another, but you d be missing the point. Erie has discovered the world.
There s no stopping this train. In fact, it s rolling no brakes out of the Himalayas and into Erie s growing Indian and Nepali immigrant community.
Three restaurants with dishes associated with the subcontinent have opened their doors, with a bit of overlap, but what all three owners say are authentic to the India-Nepal region.
Fine Restaurant and Bar, 2330 E. 38th St.
This one might be the most symbolic of the new places, as it opened in February in the former landmark Nunzi s which closed in November after 67 years. New owner Chandra Khadka, 26, is a former grocer who once owned Oriental Mini Mart on East 38th St., as well as K.C. International Food on Buffalo Road.