GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for Pennsylvania http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2010-03-17T14:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2010-02-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100212/NEWS02/302129904/-1/news Lake Erie is now virtually frozen over for the first time in 14 years. Earlier this week, it was reported that the lake was 90 to 95 percent frozen, but the relentless cold finished the job. text/html 2010-02-11T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_14380757 Officials with the Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources say some beaches will be closed for swimming this summer at Presque Isle State Park in Erie. text/html 2010-02-10T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/NEWS02/302099905 The power is running out on the Lake Erie snow machine. The lake is about 90 to 95 percent ice-covered, and more cold temperatures forecast could freeze the entire lake. The lake hasn't completely frozen over since the winter of 1995-96. text/html 2010-02-04T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100204/NEWS02/302039891 Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell won't be at a meeting Monday at the White House about Asian carp and the Great Lakes. At least three other Great Lakes governors will be there to talk about the invasive species. text/html 2010-01-19T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100118/NEWS02/301189958/-1/news The swimming advisories issued each summer at Presque Isle State Park are triggered in part by storms, which bring more surface water -- and more E. coli bacteria -- into Lake Erie. Other chemicals wash in with it. text/html 2009-12-08T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091205/NEWS02/312049871/-1/NEWS Completed 165 years ago today, the Erie Extension Canal greatly improved travel and opened new markets for local products. Its brief existence also helped grow industrial centers like Erie and Meadville, and it played a major role in the development of Girard, Albion, Conneautville, and Conneaut Lake. text/html 2009-10-15T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20091013_ap_windfarmsinterferingwithweatherradarinny.html Wind farms in upstate New York are interfering with National Weather Service Doppler radars, making it more difficult to detect and assess approaching lake effect snow storms. text/html 2009-10-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20091001_ap_ontariogovernmentdisputeslakeeriewindproject.html Neither of the companies that announced the transfer of development rights for a massive wind farm on Lake Erie owns those rights, Ontario authorities told The Associated Press on Thursday. text/html 2009-09-22T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090919/NWPAOUT02/309199955/-1/SPORTS1001 Each day of September brings more and more steelhead anglers to Sherry Mishik's office at the Walnut Creek Access Area. What the secretary for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission really wants to see is cloudy skies. text/html 2009-09-17T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.meadvilletribune.com/local/local_story_259222652.html Pharmaceuticals have an alarming tendency to accumulate in the household. As residents gear up for the county's first unwanted medicine collection campaign on Saturday, Meadville Area Water Authority is receiving an award for its recently completed source water protection plan.