Making decisions that directly impact students in the district, the Erie School Board noticed a missing piece of the puzzle that they sought to fill. "The student's empty seat at the dais was a ...

Support local vendors and celebrate the start of fall with Goodell Gardens & Homestead's 19th annual Homegrown Harvest Festival, a day packed with fun for the whole family.

The truth is simple: Erie cannot rise without strong public schools. And strong schools are not built by chance; they are ...

The Erie Reader Book Club will be reading and discussing the novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers in ...

The death of Marchello Woodard, a 43-year-old father with weeks left of parole, left the Erie community in shock. Now, nearly ...

Erie's own original, immersive theatrical company – transforms the historic, 30,000-square-foot Erie Maennerchor building ...

Originally exploding onto Broadway in 2022 at the Shubert Theatre under the direction of Susan Stroman, POTUS made waves as a ...

The Reader Beat aims to cover city and county council meetings as well as other important government and community-related meetings. A repeated concern during the August council meetings was the ...

It was left in limbo for over two years, but the much-anticipated remake of 1980s cult horror/superhero/comedy The Toxic Avenger finally gets a limited theatrical run to the delight of gore freaks ...

As co-founder and chair of Fair Districts PA, Carol Kuniholm, Ph.D. travels across Pennsylvania to explain in no-nonsense terms that gerrymandering shuts out citizen voices, causes gridlock in the ...

Film lovers have a reason to be happy this season – 12 reasons in particular. Film Erie (formerly the Film Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania) has teamed up with the 1020 Collective to bring back a ...

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