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From Pennsylvania farms to your table: The best places to source your holiday meal staples
This holiday season, ditch the big box store’s shriveled green beans and canned cranberry sauce and keep it local.
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Food Banks and Free Meal Programs in Erie, PA
This guide highlights the food banks, meal programs, and free furniture resources available in Erie today that were built on generosity and sustained by community.
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Free Community Pantry Boxes in Erie, PA
These free boxes, supplied by caring people across the Erie community, are where people can count on getting fresh produce, pantry staples, and even some toiletries and personal supplies.
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Even with shutdown end in sight, Pa. residents face health insurance hikes
While an end to the federal government shutdown could come this week, the main issue behind the shutdown—whether or not to extend enhanced tax credits for millions of Americans purchasing their plans on Affordable Care Act marketplaces like Pennie—remains unresolved.
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Religious, philosophical vaccine exemptions on the rise in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Vaccine exemptions are on the rise. Almost 1,800 students in Allegheny County submitted medical, religious or philosophical vaccination exemptions in 2024, compared to about 1,300 in 2020. In Westmoreland County, 926 students filed for exemptions in these categories and time frame, compared to just under 400 in 2020.
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Winter weather advisory, lake-effect snow warnings issued for parts of Erie County
The weather service reports an additional 3 inches to 5 inches of snow could fall in places in northern Erie County before the advisory expires. Snowfall rate could be up to an inch per hour in the strongest bands, especially the night of Monday, Nov. 10.
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Lebanon fire crews rescue 385-pound black bear from Millcreek Twp. tree
The Womelsdorf Volunteer Fire Company reported that emergency crews responded to Round Barn Road for a report of a 385-pound bear climbing the trees. Crews said their ladder truck was requested to help with efforts to get the bear down.
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Preliminary tests find germ that causes botulism in ByHeart baby formula
The outbreak has sickened at least 13 infants in 10 states. No deaths have been reported.
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God’s Meal Barrel has been putting food on the table to feed Hanover families since 1986
As uncertainty lingered over the future of SNAP payments to the more than 22 million households across the United States that rely on the program, the volunteers of Hanover food pantry God’s Meal Barrel remained hard at work distributing groceries to local families in need.
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Stars of ‘Friends,’ ‘Stranger Things’ working on movie about Erie pizza bomber case
Courteney Cox is helming the true crime thriller “Evil Genius,” inspired by a 2018 Netflix documentary series of the same name about the plot that led to a 2003 bank robbery and the murder of pizza deliveryman Brian Wells. Patricia Arquette and David Harbour are set to star, according to a Deadline story.
