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Yahoo
27-05-2025
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Gas & groceries: community reacts to Memorial Day prices
Many people choose to spend Memorial Day the same way, firing up the grill for a cookout with friends and family. Over at Presque Isle, dozens of families found a spot to set up a picnic, but first, they paid the grocery bill for the holiday food essentials. 'Over $100. Over $100,' said Armyani Thompson, Presque Isle picnicker. 'Is that good or bad in your eyes?' asked reporter Tyler Gallagher. Meadville residents commemorate Memorial Day with parade, ceremony 'It was pretty good, you know, inflation, but it's alright. It was alright,' replied Thompson. 'I would say $35 to $40. We got some hamburgers, cheeseburgers, got some chips, some mini pops, and some deviled eggs,' said Keith Gebhardt, another picnicker. Gebhardt said the eggs were definitely the most expensive during his grocery trip, but all in all the final price was pretty good. After speaking with people at Presque Isle, we went to a grocery store to see exactly how much some popular holiday picnic items would cost. Erie families celebrate Memorial Day remembering loved ones For eight burgers and 10 hotdogs, the final price comes out to around $37, including ketchup, mustard and buns, and that's from buying the cheapest option for each grocery prices play a role in Memorial Day picnics, gas prices also have an impact on holiday travelers visiting their families. 'I spend about 100 bucks a week on gas, and I go through a whole tank of gas once a week. It's gotten a lot worse. I used to spend maybe like $70, and now it's like $100, so it's pretty bad,' said Malaki Swanson. But at least for the month of May, gas prices have been staying steady for Memorial Day travelers. Cans for Wishes remembers wish kid in record breaking drop-off AAA reports that the current average price of regular gas in Erie County is $3.351, which is about 50 cents less than the average last year at $3.864. That average for Erie County is only a little bit above the state average, which sits at $3.294. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
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Meadville woman arrested after 100 mph chase involving three departments
(WJET/WFXP)– A Meadville woman is facing several criminal charges after allegedly leading police from three departments on a car chase spanning several miles. According to Meadville police, the chase started over a stop for a pair of traffic infractions around 10:49 p.m. on May 15 in the 110000 block of Pennsylvania Ave. when the driver initially stopped in the road for but things quickly escalated. Meadville teen being charged as adult for alleged stabbing The driver, identified as 31-year-old Cara Schueler of Meadville, allegedly showed signs of driving under the influence and complied when asked to put their keys on the dashboard, but later allegedly told police, 'you're not arresting me,' then started the car and took off. That chase lasted just over eight miles through the Meadville area, reaching speeds up to 100 mph, with police adding that Schueler turned the lights off on the car, forcing passing cars off the road. Members of Pennsylvania State Police and Conneaut Lake Police also joined the chase. Three arrested, face dozens of charges for alleged involvement in PA fentanyl operation Police said the chase ended after Schueler struck a curb and got several flat tires before being taken into custody. Schueler is being charged with felony fleeing and eluding, misdemeanor reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and driving under the influence, along with several summary violations. She's being held in the Crawford County Jail on $25,000 and is set to appear in Crawford County Court on May 30. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Sport
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District 10 releases lacrosse tournament field
HERMITAGE, Pa. (WKBN) – District 10 released the 2025 lacrosse tournament field below: Girls' District 10 Class 2A TournamentSemifinal (May 22)Game 1: Meadville vs. Cathedral Prep (at Hagerty Family Events Center, 5 pm)Championship (May 26)Winner of Game 1 vs. Conneaut (at Hagerty Family Events Center, TBA) Girls' District 10 Class 3A TournamentChampionship (May 24)McDowell vs. Fairview (at Hagerty Family Events Center, 2 pm) Boys' District 10 Class 2A TournamentSemifinal (May 22)Game 1: Hickory vs. Cathedral Prep (at Hagerty Family Events Center, 7 pm)Championship (May 26)Winner of Game 1 vs. Meadville (at Hagerty Family Events Center, TBA) Girls' District 10 Class 3A TournamentChampionship (May 24)McDowell vs. Fairview (at Hagerty Family Events Center, 12 pm) Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Business
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Meadville Housing Authority approves waiver request, other moves
In a special meeting last week, Meadville Housing Authority addressed several sources of concern that have repeatedly been the focus of extended board discussion over the past six months. Board members voted Thursday to request a conflict of interest waiver for its chair, to establish a social media presence and to approve temporary positions for two former employees as the authority works to fill several jobs on a long-term basis. 'I'm glad we're moving forward with this stuff,' authority Chair Joe Tompkins said in a phone interview Monday. The votes came at a specially called meeting that was announced in a legal ad in last Monday's edition of The Meadville Tribune. Board members voted 2-1 to approve a waiver request from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which funds the authority, for a conflict of interest involving Tompkins. Board members Cena Kneubehl and Jane Osborne voted in favor of the request while Marcia Yohe opposed it. Tompkins abstained from the vote and Richard Zinn did not attend the meeting. A similar waiver request was defeated last month when Zinn joined Yohe in opposing the move, resulting in a tie vote. The conflict of interest arose because Tompkins' wife, Julie Wilson, is executive director of the local housing nonprofit Common Roots, an agency that contracts with the Housing Authority for housing choice vouchers in the program commonly referred to as Section 8 housing. Board members also approved a social media policy that directs the authority's executive director to have YouTube and Facebook pages created for the authority and to have meetings recorded and posted to the pages. Meeting agendas and minutes will also be posted to the Facebook page. Like the conflict of interest, the notion of creating a social media presence for the authority has also consistently been raised in board meetings since November. 'Can we start recording board meetings and putting them on the Housing Authority website?' Kneubehl first asked during the Nov. 13 meeting. 'That way people who can't come and be here to hear what's going on can watch it later and go, 'Oh, OK, that's what's going on.' Because then if they have concerns about what happened in the board meeting they can come to the next meeting.' Tompkins' irony was evident Monday as he joked about the long road from concept to policy approval. 'It only took five months,' he said with a laugh. A similar proposal was defeated last month when the board split with Tompkins and Kneubehl in favor and Yohe and Zinn opposed after Osborne had left approximately two hours into a meeting that lasted nearly three hours. The board also voted to hire the authority's former Section 8 coordinator and an administrative assistant on a per diem basis. Neither position has been filled since the former staff members left their positions last year. The board also voted to allow interim Executive Director Jon Ketcham to hire a new Section 8 coordinator who will be trained for the position by the former coordinator now working on a per diem basis. Movement was also evident on several other fronts. The board approved minutes from its Jan. 29 and March 12 meetings with changes proposed by Tompkins. Kneubehl and Osoborne will form a committee to revise the board's bylaws, a topic that Kneubehl has raised several times in recent months, only to have Executive Director Vanessa Rockovich counter that the board by-laws were not a high-priority concern. The board voted to place Rockovich on temporary paid leave last month. Citing the advice of their attorney, board members declined to explain the motivation behind their move. Board members will meet May 14 in the Holland Towers community room, 1120 Market St., for their next regular meeting.
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Sport
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RoboBOTS returns today
Bragging rights are on the line at today's RoboBOTS tournament not only for the championship team and its school, but also for one family holding its own mini reunion. Technical education teachers Asa Williams III and Carissa Williams not only are husband and wife, but RoboBOTS team coaches for Cambridge Springs and Meadville, respectively. Two of their sons, Asa Williams IV, 28, and Dillan Williams, 24, serve as referees for the robot battles. Asa IV works as a tool and die maker at Riley Tool in Cochranton while Dillan is a mechanical engineer at Ridg-U-Rak, a manufacturing company in North East. Asa III has been involved as an adviser and coach in the RoboBOTS program since it started in the 2006-2007 school year. He first was a technical education education teacher at Maplewood High School and has been at Cambridge Springs High School for about the past 10 years. Carissa Williams has been a coach and adviser at Meadville just since the 2022-2023 year when she got involved in January 2023 as a long-term substitute teacher in technical education. She was on Meadville's staff the year before as a ceramics art teacher. However, she had certification in technical education as well. Carissa Williams, though, has a RoboBOTS tournament championship as a coach with Meadville winning in 2023. 'When I became the long-term substitute that January (2023), I had 10 weeks to help the kids get it together,' she said. 'I had always went with (Asa III) to the tournaments — but it was the first year competing against each other.' 'The night before (the tournament) we were talking about it and he said, 'If you win, you have to take the kids to nationals',' Carissa recalled. 'We laughed and laughed about it — then we won.' There is a good natured rivalry between the couple, evident in a reporter's visit to Cambridge Springs High School earlier this week to Asa III's classroom. He posed a key question to his students, 'What's our goal?' 'Beat Meadville!' was shouted back by the students. Both Asa III and Carissa say they enjoy seeing students involved in the RoboBOTS program grow as they apply lessons while having fun. 'It's great seeing the kids come up with ideas,' Asa III said. 'It's designed to make the kids think outside the box. It's manufacturing, budgeting, fund-raising. It's like running a real business.' 'It's getting them involved in all the different aspects of it — from design to documentation to manufacturing,' Carissa said. 'The kids learn what they don't like and do like.' Both the Williams' sons enjoyed growing up with RoboBOTS. First, they were just tagging along as small children. Then it expanded to being involved as students with their dad, and it led to careers in manufacturing and being referees with the tournament. 'I get first-class seats for all the bouts as a referee,' Asa IV joked about being a referee. 'I enjoy it,' Dillan said. 'It is always a blast. I learned a lot through RoboBOTS and it's helped me become a project engineer.' RoboBOTS was started by the northwestern Pennsylvania chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA), a manufacturing trade group, to get students interested in manufacturing and technical careers. The competition has student teams design and build 15-pound robots that battle it out in a double-elimination tournament held at Meadville Area Senior High School. YOU CAN GO RoboBOTS is a hands-on robot-building contest for high school and middle school students sponsored by the northwestern Pennsylvania chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association. This year, 27 teams from 12 schools in the region will have robots battle against each other today at Meadville Area Senior High, 930 North St. Extension. Admission is free. Doors open at 8 a.m. with competition at 9.
