Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz joined President and CEO of the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park Paul J. Marzello Sr. at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park to donate flags for the park s use during upcoming Flag Day observations.
In 2018, Buffalo Naval Park officials and marine engineers considered a plan to tow the USS The Sullivans, the decommissioned destroyer now in crisis in Buffalo’s Inner Harbor, across Lake Erie to Erie, Pa., to be docked on land so lasting repairs could be completed. That is under consideration again.
In the eight days since the USS The Sullivans began leaning and taking on water, both organizations overseeing the dive and the divers have faced many obstacles: battering winds, the