GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for Pennsylvania http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2009-07-03T14:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2009-07-01T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090630/OPINION01/306309996/-1/OPINION21 We welcome the news that Congress appears ready to commit $475 million to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Freshwater is crucial to Erie's economy and we should never take it for granted. text/html 2009-06-25T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090625/NWPAOUT02/306259908/-1/SPORTS1001 A rare lake sturgeon was hooked and released Wednesday near Presque Isle in Lake Erie. The last time the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission had a confirmed sighting of a lake sturgeon was in 2001. text/html 2009-06-19T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1620012 A group of 14 journalists from both the U.S. and Canada embarked on an eight-day odyssey around Lake Erie, the southernmost of the Great Lakes, to assess its condition today. text/html 2009-06-10T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090610/OPINION01/306109996/-1/OPINION21 As Erie municipalities prepare to regulate wind power, it's time for a community conversation on renewable energy. text/html 2009-06-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090602/NEWS02/306029952/-1/NEWS02 The city of Erie and the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority received a combined $8.8 million in grant money from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for "smart transportation" projects. text/html 2009-05-15T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090515/NEWS02/305159932 The Flagship Niagara League will assume day-to-day management of the the historic U.S. Brig Niagara, a square-rigged brig that sails from Erie, league officials said Thursday. text/html 2009-05-05T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090502/NEWS02/305029923/-1/NEIGHBORS The president of an Erie environmental group thinks the science of the $370 million tires-to-energy plant is on his side. He has talked at length about microns, ultrafines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emissions, which he says will raise cancer and asthma rates if the facility is built in Erie. text/html 2009-05-01T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090501/NEWS02/305019933 The Roger Blough will be taking an unwanted summer vacation. And the 858-foot Great Lakes freighter, which departed Erie early Thursday morning on its way to summer storage in Conneaut, Ohio, isn't the only Great Lakes ship that will be sitting on the sidelines. text/html 2009-04-24T08:05:50-04:00 http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/travel/escapes/24northern.html Lace up your boots, shoulder a pack, and head out on the North Country Trail this month from its origin in Crown Point, N.Y., and you could journey westward straight through the summer, past autumn's falling leaves, and hike miles nonstop every day until snow blocks the path. text/html 2009-04-23T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090423/OPINION01/304239989/-1/OPINION21 The pollution problem isn't solved yet, but research to find out more about E. coli at Presque Isle State Park is yielding results.