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NEW PHILADELPHIA — Small businesses are being invited to participate in the second-annual Shark Tub pitch competition, an event that organizers said could pro

Election board plans test STEUBENVILLE — The Jefferson County Board of Elections will test its equipment and procedures for Tuesday’s election on Friday.

Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority is awarding more than $2.4 million in grant money to revitalize commercial corridors adversely affected by the covid-19 pandemic. The Avenues of Hope grants, funded with federal covid relief money, will go to 20 businesses across the city. The URA received 45 grant applications by the

Six different communities in the county are benefiting from the countys Main Street program.

Homing in on Business by Liz Allen Liz Allen U Frame It owners Phyl Mashyna (left) and Matt Lebowitz have stayed plenty busy throughout the pandemic, with hemmed-in Erieites feeling the itch to freshen up and redecorate home and office spaces grown stale. For some small business owners, theres no place like home — coming home, that is. Phyl Mashyna moved back to Erie from San Francisco with her husband, Matt Lebowitz, in October 1988. Phyls fa...

Library Can Help Your Business, Too by Erie Reader Staff Liz Allen Trish Digliodo, president of Paramount Pursuits, credits many Erie leaders for the decision she and her husband, Paramount Pursuits CEO Marcos Digliodo, made to expand in Erie. Those leaders include Rachel Stevenson, programming director for the Erie County Library, which is part of the Beehive Network and helps entrepreneurs in a variety of ways. "We offer them support when they...