CORRY The home at 47 E. Smith St. was appealing to Mandi Johnson long before she and her family moved in.
Johnson, who grew up in Corry, loved the big old houses in town, and after she and her husband, Scott, moved to Clymer, New York, she longed to return. She kept a close watch on the real estate market in her hometown.
“I always wanted to move back, and in 2018, an opportunity came up to make a move,” she said in a phone interview. “We saw the listing, and it had been on and off the market for four of five years.”
With little more than a month to go before the May 18 primary, Erie Mayor Joe Schember might have a bit of fence-mending to do. When the local Democratic Party committee members met last week, they voted not to endorse Schember for a second term. He will still be heavily favored to retain the nomination, but it shows that the committee is composed of independent thinkers. That’s actually good for the party.
Up until the pandemic, Schember thrived in his role as mayor, appearing at events and gatherings all over town. That visibility changed with the lockdown, but I suspect his popularity remains quite high.
Meg Loncharic: Hagen History Center inviting the community to A Night at the Museum
Erie Times-News
For the past three years, there have been preparations for a new day at the Hagen History Center, according to a statement from the organization. If you have driven by the campus on West Sixth Street, you have seen the progress.
Old buildings have been restored, and a new building has been constructed. There’s been an investment of more than $11 million during the past three years, and the eight new professionally designed exhibits are sure to inspire you, according to the statement. In addition, a national exhibit, which will be unveiled this summer, will make the Hagen History Center a major tourist destination.
Many of the shortages linked to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic are now a memory.
You might not find your favorite brand of toilet paper on a given visit to the store, but chances are good that you will find toilet paper, and paper towels, too.
But some of the patterns of 2020 especially those apparent during the active warm-weather months seem destined to repeat themselves as we look ahead to another summer shaped in part by restrictions and increased demand.
Here is an incomplete but hopefully representative look at a few household-focused items that were hard to come by in 2020 and a look at the prospects for the year ahead.